Lecture
Some Advances in Virtual Reality, Virtual Humans, and Virtual Crowds
Speaker: |
Prof. Daniel Thalmann |
Date: |
Tuesday, 22 May 2007 |
Time: |
15:00-17:00 |
Location: |
"Stelios Orphonoudakis" Seminar Room, FORTH. Heraklion, Crete |
Host: |
Prof. C. Stephanidis |
Abstract: |
In this talk, we will present
some of our recent projects in EPFL-VRlab; we will explain how
we model and animate interactive and intelligent Virtual Humans,
able to react to the environment. We will emphasize the simulation
of crowds, which imply many aspects like modelling variety, path
planning, collision detection, levels of details, rendering pipeline.
We will also discuss the use of Virtual Reality techniques for
teleoperation, surveillance, and monitoring. |
Bio: |
Professor Dr. Daniel Thalmann
is Professor and Director of The Virtual Reality Lab (VRlab) at
EPFL, Switzerland. He is a pioneer in research on Virtual Humans.
His current research interests include Real-time Virtual Humans
in Virtual Reality, Networked Virtual Environments, Computer Animation,
and 3D Interaction. He is the President of the Swiss Association
of Research in Information Technology and one Director of ERCIM. He is coeditor-in-chief of the Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, and member of the editorial board of the Visual Computer and 4 other journals. Daniel Thalmann was member of numerous Program Committees, Program Chair and CoChair of several conferences. Daniel Thalmann has published more than 400 papers in Graphics, Animation, and Virtual Reality. He is coeditor or coauthor of several books including the ”Handbook on Virtual Humans”, published by John Wiley and Sons. He received his PhD in Computer Science in 1977 from the University of Geneva and an Honorary Doctorate (Honoris Causa) from University Paul- Sabatier in Toulouse, France, in 2003. |