Rémi Ronfard is a research director at Inria. He has conducted research in a variety of domains, from geometric design to 3D animation and computer vision. This includes work on storyboarding and layout animation, action recognition and statistical analysis of image and film styles, directing virtual worlds. He has co-chaired international workshops on intelligent cinematography and editing, computational models of narratives and computer theater. For the Ministry of Culture, he was one of the authors of the first exploratory report on Metavers (2022). This document attempts to define the concept of Metavers as accurately as possible, as well as its opportunities, limitations and related challenges.
