Computer science, theory of sampling, computer graphics.
Biography
Graduated from Phys-Tech (MIPT, Moscow, 1980). Spent several years with prominent European and American industrial companies (SG2, Paris; Olivetti, Paris and Milan; Canon Information Systems, Cupertino, CA) as a research scientist and/or computer engineer. Completed his Ph.D. in CS at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL, Lausanne, 1995), where he continued to work as a lecturer and senior researcher. Invited professor at University of Washington (Seattle, 1997) and at iMAGIS/INRIA (Grenoble, 2002). Research scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, in 1999–2000. Associate Professor at University of Montreal, since August 2000.
Main publications:
Victor Ostromoukhov, “A Simple and Efficient Error-Diffusion Algorithm”, Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, 2001, 567–572
Victor Ostromoukhov and Charles Donohue and Pierre-Marc Jodoin, “Fast hierarchical importance sampling with blue noise properties”, Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, 23:3 (2004), 488–495
Victor Ostromoukhov, “Sampling with Polyominoes”, Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, 26:3 (2007), 78:1–78:6