Romain Vuillemot
Assistant Professor in Computer Science, HDR
Maître de Conférence en Informatique, HDR
Centrale Lyon (Engineering School)
Department of Math and Computer Science (Math-Info)
36 avenue Guy de Collongue
69134 Écully CEDEX
France
LIRIS (Research Laboratory)
Laboratoire d’InfoRmatique en Image et Systèmes d’information
SICAL team, CNRS UMR 5205
Research interests
- Visualization in data science
- Sports data analysis and visualization
- Video tracking for situated visualization
- Computer-aided design and prototyping
Current Projects
- DECALIGNE (2025 - 2027) - New mobility maps with Latitude Cartagene
- SportsViz (PI, 2025 - 2029) - Advanced situated visualizations in sports videos
- GLACIS (2022 - 2026) - Graphical languages for creating infographics
- Table Tennis (2022 - 2025) - Table tennis tactics detection and visualization
- AMIGO (2018 - ..) - Motion analysis platform at Centrale Lyon
Past projects:
- NEPTUNE (2020 - 2025) - Improving elite swimmers performance
- MI2 (2017 - 2021) - Improving urban mobility maps and navigation
Recent Activities
- 🎓 December 2025 Aymeric Erades defends his PhD on the Table Tennis project
- 🚀 November 2025 Mu Liang join DECALIGNE project as a research engineer
- 💥 September 2025 R&D Booster Region project with Latitude Cartagene
- 🚀 February 2025 Theo Jaunet joins GLACIS project as a post-doc
- 💥 February 2025 Kick-off of the SportsViz project
- 🎓 October 2024 Defended my Habilitation (HDR - Habilitation à diriger des recherches)
- 🏆 October 2024 10-yr Test of Time award for our UpSet Paper at IEEE VIS’24
- 🎤 June 2023 I organized the Sciences 2024 Challenge at Centrale Lyon
- 💾 Jan. 2023 Released Swimtrack swimming data for the MediaEval 2022 workshop
- 🎓 Jan. 2023 Centrale Lyon is starting a Bachelor in Data Science and is hiring.
- 🎓 Dec. 2022 Nicolas Jacquelin successfully defended his PhD on Swimmers Detections and Tracking. His slides manuscript is available here and the defense slides here.
- 🎓 Nov. 2022 Liqun Liu successfully defended his PhD on Traffic Data Visualization
- 🎤 Oct. 2022 Sports Data Visualization tutorial at the IEEE VIS 2022 conference
- 🚀 Sept. 2022 Aymeric Erades started a PhD on Table Tennis with FFTT
- 🎓 May 2022 Théo Jaunet successfully defended his PhD