Hi! I'm Nicolas, a recent PhD graduate from CVLab, EPFL, supervised by Prof. Pascal Fua. I have mostly worked on deep learning for 3D shape representation, with a focus on its application to shape design and optimization.

Before this, I did my Bachelor and Master degrees at EPFL, taking courses and projects related to robotics, computer vision, machine learning and deep learning.

You can check my up-to-date publication list on Google scholar.


Publications

Flow-Corrected Shape Optimization: Taming Manifold Drift in High-Dimensional 3D Models
Emilien Seiler, Nicolas Talabot, Yingxuan You, Federico Stella, Pascal Fua
NeurIPS 2026 [arXiv]
S2MDF: A Plug-And-Play Layer for Intersection-Free Multi-Object Signed Distance Fields
Deniz S. Mercadier*, Federico Stella*, Aurel Bizeau, Nicolas Talabot, Pascal Fua
NeurIPS 2026 [arXiv]
Revisiting Multi-View Stereo: A Sequence-to-Sequence Formulation
Aoxiang Fan, Corentin Dumery, Nicolas Talabot, Pascal Fua
NeurIPS 2026 [arXiv]
Generalizable Neural Reconstruction of High-Fidelity Surfaces via Sparse Volumetric Representations
Aoxiang Fan, Corentin Dumery, Nicolas Talabot, Ming Xu, Hieu Le, Pascal Fua
ECCV 2026 [arXiv]
PartSDF: Part-Based Implicit Neural Representation for Composite 3D Shape Parametrization and Optimization
Nicolas Talabot, Olivier Clerc, Arda C. Demirtas, Alexis Goujon, Hieu Le, Doruk Oner, Pascal Fua
TMLR 2025 [Project] [arXiv] [Code]
High Resolution UDF Meshing via Iterative Networks
Federico Stella, Nicolas Talabot, Hieu Le, Pascal Fua
NeurIPS 2025 [arXiv]
A View-consistent Sampling Method for Regularized Training of Neural Radiance Fields
Aoxiang Fan, Corentin Dumery, Nicolas Talabot, Pascal Fua
ICCV 2025 [Project] [arXiv]
Pairwise-Constrained Implicit Functions for 3D Human Heart Modeling
Hieu Le, Jingyi Xu, Nicolas Talabot, Jiancheng Yang, Pascal Fua
MICCAI 2025 [arXiv]
Enforcing View-Consistency in Class-Agnostic 3D Segmentation Fields
Corentin Dumery, Aoxiang Fan, Ren Li, Nicolas Talabot, Pascal Fua
CVPRW 2025 [Project] [arXiv] [Poster]
Neural Surface Detection for Unsigned Distance Fields
Federico Stella, Nicolas Talabot, Hieu Le, Pascal Fua
ECCV 2024 [Project] [arXiv]
Ascending neurons convey behavioral state to integrative sensory and action selection brain regions
Chin-Lin Chen, Florian Aymanns, Ryo Minegishi, Victor D. V. Matsuda, Nicolas Talabot, Semih Günel, Barry J. Dickson, Pavan Ramdya
Nature Neuroscience 2023 [Nature] [PDF]
HybridSDF: Combining Deep Implicit Shapes and Geometric Primitives for 3D Shape Representation and Manipulation
Subeesh Vasu*, Nicolas Talabot*, Artem Lukoianov, Pierre Baqué, Jonathan Donier, Pascal Fua
3DV 2022 [Project] [arXiv] [Video]