Hi, I am Niels Billen
Application Engineer at Luminex Network Intelligence
I am an application engineer at Luminex Network Intelligence, developing applications to easily visualize, monitor and configure your audio and video networking equipment.
I am an application engineer at Luminex Network Intelligence, developing applications to easily visualize, monitor and configure your audio and video networking equipment.
Stochastische Visibiliteit in Rendering Algoritmen a.d.h.v. de occlusion map
2019 — now | Application Engineer at Luminex Network Intelligence |
2017 — 2019 | Research Engineer at Flanders Make |
2013 — 2018 |
KU Leuven — Ph. D at the Computer Graphics Research Group of the Department of Computer Science.
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2011 — 2013 |
KU Leuven — Master of Science in Engineering (Computer Science) — Cum Laude (76,17%).
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2008 — 2011 |
KU Leuven — Bachelor of Science in Engineering — Cum Laude (69,74%).
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Dutch | mother tongue |
English | fluent speaker and writer |
French | basic written and oral skills |
Programming languages: | C++, Java, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, Matlab, GML, Prolog, Haskell. |
Operating systems/tools: | Ubuntu, Windows family, Git, SVN, Latex, Word, PowerPoint, Eclipse, Qt, QML, Jira. |
Lietaert Pieter, Billen Niels, Burggraeve Sofie, |
Model-based Multi-Attribute Collaborative Production Cell Layout Optimization. 2019 20th International Conference on Research and Education in Mechatronics (REM) |
Billen Niels |
Improving Efficiency in Illumination Algorithms using Stochastic Visibility and Line Sampling (Ph.D thesis, Department of Computer Science, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200A, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium, February 2018) |
Van de Woestijne Joran, Frederickx Roald, Billen Niels, Dutré Philip |
Temporal Coherence for Metropolis Light Transport. (published online at Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2017 — Experimental Ideas and Implementations) |
Billen Niels, Dutré Philip |
Line Sampling for Direct Illumination. (published in Computer Graphics Forum; Proceedings of the 27th Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2016) |
Billen Niels, Dutré Philip |
Visibility Acceleration using Efficient Ray Classification. (internal CW Report) |
Moulin Matthias, Billen Niels, Dutré Philip |
Efficient visibility heuristics for kd-trees using the RTSAH (published online at Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2015 — Experimental Ideas and Implementations) |
Billen Niels, Lagae Ares, Dutré Philip |
Probabilistic Visibility Evaluation using Geometry Proxies. (published in Computer Graphics Forum; Proceedings of the 25th Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2014) |
Billen Niels, Engelen Björn, Lagae Ares, Dutré Philip |
Probabilistic Visibility Evaluation for Direct Illumination. (published in Computer Graphics Forum; Proceedings of the 24th Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2013) |
Billen Niels |
Stochastische Visibiliteit in Rendering Algoritmen a.d.h.v. de occlusion map (Master thesis, Department of Computer Science, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200A, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium, June 2013) |
Revision: | a three-dimensional ray tracing engine written from scratch, capable of rendering scenes with several kinds of effects (e.g. motion blur, depth of field,...) |
Silen: | extracurricular group project in which we wrote a cross platform music player written in Java using SWT and GStreamer. |
Work e-mail: | niels.billen{at}luminex.be |
Work address: |
Luminex Network Intelligence Slamstraat 13 3600 Genk, Belgium |