Alasdair Newson
Full Professor, MAP5 lab, Université Paris Cité
About me
I completed my PhD in image and video processing in March 2014 under the supervision of Andrés Almansa, Yann Gousseau and Patrick Pérez, with Technicolor and Télécom Paris. My research interests include image and video inpainting and restoration, statistical methods in image processing, film restoration, variational methods, and motion estimation. I spent one year as a Postdoc researcher with the team of Guillermo Sapiro, after which I spent one year at Paris Descartes (Paris, France) with Julie Delon and Bruno Galerne. From 2018–2023 I was assistant professor with Télécom Paris.
I am currently Full Professor at Université Paris Cité, in the Mathematics for Imaging team in the MAP5 lab, where I am working on deep learning for image processing.
Recent updates
- Paper “Diff-CA: Separating Common and Salient Factors with Diffusion Models”, with Michaël Soumm, Alexandre Fournier Montgieux, Yunlong He and Pietro Gori, was accepted to NeurIPS 2026 as a spotlight! Preprint
- Paper “When Prompts Override Vision: Prompt-Induced Hallucinations in LVLMs”, with Pegah Khayatan, Jayneel Parekh, Arnaud Dapogny, Mustafa Shukor and Matthieu Cord, was accepted to NeurIPS 2026! Preprint
- Paper “AURA: AUdio-dRiven streaming Avatar”, with Nathaniel Cohen, Nicolas Dufour, Amélie Royer and Patrick Pérez, was accepted to BMVC 2026! Project page
- Paper “Stochastic Orthogonal Regularization for Deep Projective Priors”, with Ali Joundi and Yann Traonmilin, was accepted to SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences! Preprint
- Paper “FlowID: Enhancing Forensic Identification with Latent Flow-Matching Models”, with Jules Ripoll, David Bertoin and Charles Dossal, was accepted to IJCAI 2026 (AI and Social Good Track)! Project page
PhD students and postdocs
- Nathaniel Cohen (since 2026)
- Antoine Crosnier (since 2026)
- Pegah Khayatan (since 2025)
- Kimia Sadreddini (PhD student since 2025)
- Ali Joundi (PhD student since 2023)
- Jules Ripoll (PhD student since 2023)
Former PhD students and postdocs
- Raphael Reme
- Gwilherm Lesné
- Nicolas Cherel
- Chi-Hieu Pham (now Maître de Conférences, Université de Bretagne Occidentale)
- Arthur Ouaknine (now postdoc, MILA)
- Xu Yao (now research scientist, Zoox)
Collaborators
I have had the great pleasure to collaborate with the following people: