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Gaze Behaviors for Virtual Crowd Characters

Daniel Thalmann, Barbara Yersin, Jonathan Maim, Helena Stephanie Grillon Le Gallennec

Nowadays, crowds of virtual characters are used in many domains such as neurosciences, psychology, and computer sciences. Since as human beings, we are natural experts in human being representation and movement, it makes it that much harder to correctly mo ...

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Restez à l'écoute! un transcodeur automatique de flux RSS

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo, Patrick Salamin

L'utilisation des agrégateurs de news est devenue très commune bien qu'ils requièrent de l'utilisateur qu'il soit devant une écran. Malheureusement, la plupart des gens ne possèdent pas d'écran (ou alors de très petits) lorsqu'ils se déplacent. De plus, ce ...

2009

Crowd Patches: Populating Large-Scale Virtual Environments for Real-Time Applications

Daniel Thalmann, Barbara Yersin, Jonathan Maim

Populating virtual environments (VEs) with large crowds is a subject that has been tackled for several years. Solutions have been proposed to offer realistic trajectories as well as interactivity, but limitations remain on the environment dimensions with r ...

2009

Intelligent switch: An algorithm to provide the best third-person perspective in augmented reality

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo, Patrick Salamin

Augmented reality (AR) environments are suffering from a limited workspace. In addition, registration issues are also increased by the use of a mobile camera on the user that provides a first-person perspective (1PP). Using several fixed cameras reduces th ...

2009

Fast collision detection methods for joint surfaces

Ronan Boulic, Daniel Thalmann, Ehsan Arbabi

In the recent years medical diagnosis and surgery planning often require the precise evaluation of joint movements. This has led to exploit reconstructed three-dimensional models of the joint tissues obtained from CT or MR Images (for bones, cartilages, et ...

2009

Motion Pattern Encapsulation for Data-Driven Constraint-Based Motion Editing

Ronan Boulic, Daniel Thalmann

The growth of motion capture systems have contributed to the proliferation of human motion database, mainly because human motion is important in many applications, ranging from games entertainment and films to sports and medicine. However, the captured mot ...

Springer2009

YaQ: An Architecture for Real-Time Navigation and Rendering of Varied Crowds

Daniel Thalmann, Barbara Yersin, Jonathan Maim

The YaQ software platform is a complete system dedicated to real-time crowd simulation and rendering. Fitting multiple application domains, such as video games and VR, YaQ aims to provide efficient algorithms to generate crowds comprising up to thousands o ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2009

WAPA: A wearable framework for aerobatic pilot aid

Daniel Thalmann, Sylvain Cardin, Xavier Righetti

Disorientation induced by G-forces during aerobatic flight generates difficulties for the pilots to perfectly align their aerobatic maneuver. This paper presents a modular wearable system for enhancing training of aerobatic pilots. A combination of acceler ...

Springer2009

Unique Character Instances for Crowds

Daniel Thalmann, Barbara Yersin, Jonathan Maim

Real-time crowd simulations are realistic only if each human instance looks unique. A proposed solution varies the shape of human instances by attaching accessories. It also modifies the instances' appearance with a generic technique based on segmentation ...

2009

On scaling strategies for the full-body postural control of virtual mannequins

Ronan Boulic, Daniel Thalmann, Damien Maupu

Due to its intrinsic complexity. full-body postural input has been Mostly limited to off-line motion capture and to on-line Puppetry of a virtual character with little interaction with its environment (e.g. floor). The motion capture technology is now matu ...

Elsevier2009

Challenges in Crowd Simulation

Daniel Thalmann, Barbara Yersin, Jonathan Maim, Helena Stephanie Grillon Le Gallennec

The purpose of this paper is to identify the problems to solve in order to simulate real-time crowds in a Virtual Environment. We try to classify these problems and study how they have been addressed until now by the research community and our Lab in parti ...

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Motion Lab: A Mat lab Toolbox for Extracting and Processing Experimental Motion Capture Data for Neuromuscular Simulations

Daniel Thalmann, Anders Sandholm

During the last years several neuromuscular simulation platforms have been developed, from commercial tools to open-source based solutions to pure in-house solutions which are not public available. A major problem in running neuromuscular simulations in an ...

Springer-Verlag New York, Ms Ingrid Cunningham, 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2009

Full-Body Avatar Control with Environment Awareness

Ronan Boulic, Daniel Thalmann, Manuel Peinado, Damien Maupu, Daniel Raunhardt

Interactive control of virtual characters through full-body movement requires accurately reproducing a performer's motion while accounting for surrounding obstacles. The authors' approach, based on a prioritized inverse kinematics solver, satisfies marker ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2009

Simulating gaze attention behaviors for crowds

Daniel Thalmann, Helena Stephanie Grillon Le Gallennec

Crowd animation is a topic of high interest which offers many challenges. One of the most important is the trade-off between rich, realistic behaviors, and computational costs. To this end, much effort has been put into creating variety in character repres ...

Wiley-Blackwell2009

Stay Tuned! An Automatic RSS feeds Trans-coder

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo, Patrick Salamin

News aggregators are widely used to read RSS feeds but they require the user to be in front of a screen. While moving, people usually do not have any display, or very small ones. Moreover, they need to perform actions to get access to the news: download a ...

2009

Estimating Hip Joint Contact Pressure from Geometric Features

Ronan Boulic, Daniel Thalmann, Ehsan Arbabi

Hip mechanical simulation for estimating pressures within the soft tissues during the loads and motions of daily activities is a common approach to investigate hip joint pathology. Many computational approaches estimate the pressure and contact pressures v ...

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Design and Implementation of a wearable, context-aware MR framework for the Chloe@University application

Daniel Thalmann, Achille Peternier, Xavier Righetti, Mathieu Hopmann

In this paper, we present the technical details and the challenges we faced during the development and evaluation phases of our wearable indoor guiding system which consists of a virtual personal assistant guiding the user to his/her desired destination. T ...

IEEE2008

A virtual 3D mobile guide in the INTERMEDIA project

Daniel Thalmann, Achille Peternier, Xavier Righetti

In this paper, we introduce a European research project, interactive media with personal networked devices (INTERMEDIA) in which we seek to progress beyond home and device-centric convergence toward truly user-centric convergence of multimedia. Our vision ...

2008

Eye Contact as Trigger for Modification of Virtual Character Behavior

Daniel Thalmann, Helena Stephanie Grillon Le Gallennec

The increasing use of Virtual Reality in the treatment of phobias translates in a just as expanding need for realism in its scenes and characters. Virtual characters need to seem gifted with intelligence. A first step in achieving this is by giving them th ...

2008

Simulation of Individual Spontaneous Reactive Behavior

Daniel Thalmann, Alejandra Garcia Rojas Martinez

The context of this work is the search for realism and believability of Virtual Humans. Our contribution to achieve this goal is to enable Virtual Humans (VH) to react to spontaneous events in virtual environments (VE). In order to reflect the individualit ...

2008

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