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Frédéric Vexo Virtual Reality Laboratory Dr., Research and Teaching Associate web site: http://people.epfl.ch/frederic.vexo office(s): INJ130 phone(s): [+41 21 69] 35216 fax: +41 21 693 5328 BIOGRAPHY Frederic VEXO is currently research and teaching associate at the Virtual Reality Laboratory at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland. His research interests are multidisciplinary and include Virtual Reality, Human Machine Interface, Haptic, Human Perception, Tele Operated System, Multimodal Adaptive Interface, Semantic Virtual Environment and new services for graphic mobile devices. Frederic Vexo has been Visiting Professor/Scientist at Monterrey TEC, Campus Toluca and Keio University and he was lecturer at the University of Reims. Frederic Vexo is author of more than 70 papers in journals and international conferences in the fields of Human Computer Interaction, Robotics and Computer Graphics. He is member of several conference program committees and expert for different institution and companies. He received his PhD in Computer Science in 2000 from University of Reims and Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from University of METZ. He also has contributed to various European projects. Education PhD, Computer Science, Professor Gardan Yvon, University of Reims, 2000 Master, Computer Science, University Nancy-Metz, 1997 BsC, Computer Science, University of Metz, 1995 Professional course Visiting Senior Scientist, Imgl, Keio University, 2007 Research and Teaching Associate, VRLab, EPFL, 2006-Present Senior Researcher, VRLab, EPFL, 2003-2005 Invited Professor, Tec Monterrey, 2002 Postdoctoral-Fellow, VRLab, EPFL, 2001-2002 Lecturer, IFTS, University of Reims, 1997-2000 Researcher, IFTS, University of Reims, 1997-2000 CURRENT WORK Currently detached to the Logitech EPFL Incubator. MAIN PUBLICATIONS Journal Paper 2007 A. Garcia-Rojas, F. Vexo and D. Thalmann, Semantic Representation of Individualized Reaction Movements for Virtual Human, International Journal of Virtual Reality, Vol. 6, Nr. 1, pp. 25-32, 2007. [detailed record] [bibtex] M. Gutiérrez, A. García-Rojas, D. Thalmann, F. Vexo, L. Moccozet, N. Magnenat-Thalmann, M. Mortara and M. Spagnuolo, An ontology of virtual humans: Incorporating semantics into human shapes., The Visual Computer, Vol. 23, Nr. 3, pp. 207-218, 2007. [detailed record] [bibtex] 2006 S. Cardin, F. Vexo and D. Thalmann, Wearable System for Mobility Improvement of Visually Impaired People, Visual computer journal, Vol. vol. 23, pp. p 109 - 118, 2006. [detailed record] [bibtex] S. Cardin, F. Vexo and D. Thalmann, Vibro-Tactile Interface for Enhancing Piloting Abilities During Long Term Flight, Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Vol. Vol.18, No.4, pp. p 381 - 391, 2006. [detailed record] [bibtex] A. Garcia-Rojas, F. Vexo, D. Thalmann, A. Raouzaiou, K. Karpouzis, S. Kollias, L. Moccozet and N. Magnenat-Thalmann, Emotional face expression profiles supported by virtual human ontology, Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, Vol. 17, Nr. 3-4, pp. 259-269, 2006. [detailed record] [bibtex] R. Ott, D. Thalmann and F. Vexo, Organic shape modeling through haptic devices, Computer-Aided Design and Applications, Vol. 3, Nr. 1-4, pp. 79-88, 2006. [detailed record] [bibtex] 2005 M. Gutierrez, F. Vexo and D. Thalmann, Semantics-based representation of virtual environments, International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, Vol. 23, Nr. 2-4, pp. 229-38, 2005. [detailed record] [bibtex] R. Ott, D. Thalmann and F. Vexo, Modélisation haptique de Formes organiques par Métaballes assistée de Périphériques de Réalité virtuelle, Revue de CFAO et d'informatique graphique intitulé "Interaction Homme Machine et CFAO", pp. 185-199, 2005. [detailed record] [bibtex] 2004 T. Abaci, R. de Bondeli, J. Ciger, M. Clavien, F. Erol, M. Gutierrez, S. Noverraz, O. Renault, F. Vexo and D. Thalmann, Magic wand and the Enigma of the Sphinx, Computers & Graphics, Vol. 28, Nr. 4, pp. 477-84, 2004. [detailed record] [bibtex] S. Schertenleib, M. Gutierrez, F. Vexo and D. Thalmann, Conducting a virtual orchestra, IEEE Multimedia, Vol. 11, Nr. 3, pp. 40-9, 2004. [detailed record] [bibtex] 2003 D. Thalmann and F. Vexo, MPEG-4 Character Animation, KI - Künstliche Intelligenz, Special Issue Embodied Conversational Agents, 2003 , 2003. [detailed record] [bibtex] Conference Paper 2010 P. Salamin, D. Thalmann and F. Vexo, Providing the best Third-Person Perspective to a Video-Through HMD, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer and Automation Engineering, 2010. [detailed record] [bibtex] 2009 P. Salamin, D. Vexo and D. Thalmann, Context aware, multimodal, and semantic rendering engine, Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and Its Applciations in Industry (VRCAI '09), 2009. [detailed record] [bibtex] P. Salamin, D. Thalmann and F. Vexo, Intelligent switch: An algorithm to provide the best third-person perspective in augmented reality, Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2009), 2009. [detailed record] [bibtex] P. Salamin, D. Thalmann and F. Vexo, Restez à l'écoute! un transcodeur automatique de flux RSS, , 2009. [detailed record] [bibtex] M. Hopmann, D. Thalmann and F. Vexo, Tangible drag-and-drop: Transferring digital content with a remote control, , Vol. Volume 5670/2009, pp. 306-315, 2009. [detailed record] [bibtex] P. Salamin, D. Thalmann and F. Vexo, Stay Tuned! An Automatic RSS feeds Trans-coder, Proceedings of the 3rd International conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN 2009), 2009. [detailed record] [bibtex] 2008 P. Salamin, D. Thalmann and F. Vexo, Improved Third-Person Perspective: a solution reducing occlusion of the 3PP?, Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and its Applications in Industry (VRCAI '08), pp. 1-6, 2008. [detailed record] [bibtex] M. Hopmann, D. Thalmann and F. Vexo, Thanks to geolocalized remote control : the sound will follow, Cyberworlds 08, 2008. [detailed record] [bibtex] P. Salamin, D. Thalmann, F. Vexo and S. Giroud, Two-arm haptic force-feedbacked aid for the shoulder and elbow telerehabilitation, Proceeding of the 3rd International Conference of E-Learning and Games: Edutainment 2008, pp. 381-390, 2008. [detailed record] [bibtex] 2007 R. Ott, V. De Perrot, D. Thalmann and F. Vexo, MHAPTIC : a Haptic Manipulation Library for Generic Virtual Environments, , 2007. [detailed record] [bibtex] S. Cardin, D. Thalmann and F. Vexo, Head Mounted Wind, proceeding of the 20th annual conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA2007), pp. 101-108, 2007. [detailed record] [bibtex] X. Righetti, S. Cardin, D. Thalmann and F. Vexo, Immersive flight for surveillance applications, IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces, pp. 139-142, 2007. [detailed record] [bibtex] R. Ott, D. Thalmann and F. Vexo, Haptic Feedback in Mixed-Reality Environment, Proceedings of The 25th Computer Graphics International Conference (CGI'2007), 2007. [detailed record] [bibtex] P. Salamin, D. Thalmann and F. Vexo, Visualization Learning for Visually Impaired People, Proceeding of the 2nd International Conference of E-Learning and Games: Edutaiment 2007, pp. 171-181, 2007. [detailed record] [bibtex] A. Peternier, S. Cardin, F. Vexo and D. Thalmann, Practical Design and Implementation of a CAVE Environment, Proceedings 2nd International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory, pp. 129-136, 2007. [detailed record] [bibtex] 2006 M. Gutierrez, F. VExo and D. Thalmann, Standardized Virtual Reality, are we there yet ?, International Conference CYBERWORLDS 2006, Nr. ISBN 0-7695-2671-3, pp. 191-197, 2006. [detailed record] [bibtex] A. Garcia-Rojas, F. Vexo and D. Thalmann, Individualized Reaction Movements For Virtual Humans, GRAPHITE '06, pp. 79-85, 2006. [detailed record] [bibtex] A. Garcia-Rojas, F. Vexo, D. Thalmann, A. Raouzaiou, K. Karpouzis and S. Kollias, Emotional Body Expression Parameters In Virtual Human Ontology, Proceedings of 1st Int. Workshop on Shapes and Semantics, pp. 63-70, 2006. [detailed record] [bibtex] L. Moccozet, A. Garcia-Rojas, F. Vexo, D. Thalmann and N. Magnenat-Thalmann, In Search for your own Virtual Individual, Semantic Multimedia, Vol. 4306/2006, pp. 26-40, 2006. [detailed record] [bibtex] R. Ott, M. Gutierrez, D. Thalmann and F. Vexo, Advanced virtual reality technologies for surveillance and security applications, ACM International Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and its Applications (VRCIA), pp. 163 - 170, 2006. [detailed record] [bibtex] A. Peternier, D. Thalmann and F. Vexo, Mental vision: a computer graphics teaching platform, Proc. Edutainment in Lectures Notes in Computer Science, pp. 223-232, 2006. [detailed record] [bibtex] A. Peternier, F. Vexo and D. Thalmann, Wearable Mixed Reality System In Less Than 1 Pound, Proceedings of the 12th Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environment, 2006. [detailed record] [bibtex] P. Salamin, D. Thalmann and F. Vexo, Comfortable manipulation of a virtual gearshift prototype with haptic feedback, Proceedings of EuroHaptics '06, pp. 125-130, 2006. [detailed record] [bibtex] P. Salamin, F. Vexo and D. Thalmann, The Benefits of Third-Person Perspective in Virtual and Augmented Reality?, Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST '06), pp. 27-30, 2006. [detailed record] [bibtex] D. Thalmann, P. Salamin, R. Ott, M. Gutiérrez and F. Vexo, Advanced Mixed Reality Technologies for Surveillance and Risk Prevention Applications, International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS '06), pp. 13-23, 2006. [detailed record] [bibtex] A. Garcia-Rojas, M. Gutierrez, D. Thalmann and F. Vexo, Multimodal authoring tool for populating a database of emotional reactive animations, MLMI 2005. Revised Selected Papers Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3869, pp. 206-217, 2006. [detailed record] [bibtex] 2005 M. Gutierrez, D. Thalmann, F. Vexo, L. Moccozet, N. Magnenat-Thalmann, M. Mortara and M. Spagnuolo, An ontology of virtual humans: incorporating semantics into human shapes, Proc. Workshop towards Semantic Virtual Environments (SVE05), pp. 56-57, 2005. [detailed record] [bibtex] T. Abaci, M. Mortara, G. Patane, M. Spagnulo, F. Vexo and D. Thalmann, Bridging Geometry and Semantics for Object Manipulation and Grasping, Proceedings of Workshop towards Semantic Virtual Environments' (SVE 2005) workshop, 2005. [detailed record] [bibtex] S. Cardin, F. Vexo and D. Thalmann, Wearable Obstacle Detection System for visually impaired People, VR Workshop on Haptic and Tactile Perception of Deformable Objects, pp. p 50 - 55, 2005. [detailed record] [bibtex] A. Garcia-Rojas, D. Thalmann, F. Vexo, L. Moccozet, N. Magnenat-Thalmann, M. Spagnuolo and M. Gutiérrez, An Ontology of Virtual Humans: Incorporating Semantics into Human Shapes, Proc. European Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge, Semantics and Digital Media Technology (EWIMT 2005), pp. 7- 14, 2005. [detailed record] [bibtex] M. Gutiérrez, D. Thalmann and F. Vexo, Semantic Virtual Environments with Adaptive Multimodal Interfaces, 11th International Conference on Multimedia Modelling, MMM2005, pp. pages 277-283, 2005. [detailed record] [bibtex] P. Lemoine, D. Thalmann, M. Gutiérrez and F. Vexo, The “Caddie Paradigm”: a free-Locomotion Interface for Teleoperation, Workshop on Modelling and Motion Capture Techniques for Virtual Environments (CAPTECH), pp. 20-25, 2005. [detailed record] [bibtex] J.-C. Leon, F. Giannini, B. Falcidieno, G. Brunetti, H. Graf, A. Stork, F. Vexo and D. Thalmann, Acquiring, structuring shapes and annotating them with semantics to improve design activities, Virtual Concept 2005, 2005. [detailed record] [bibtex] R. Ott, M. Gutierrez, D. Thalmann and F. Vexo, Improving user comfort in haptic virtual environments through gravity compensation, Proceedings. First Joint Eurohaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems. World Haptics Conference, pp. 401-409, 2005. [detailed record] [bibtex] R. Ott, M. Gutierrez, D. Thalmann and F. Vexo, VR haptic interfaces for teleoperation: an evaluation study, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium Proceedings (IV), pp. 788-793, 2005. [detailed record] [bibtex] 2004 M. Gutierrez, P. Lemoine, D. Thalmann and F. Vexo, Telerehabilitation: Controlling Haptic Virtual Environments through Handheld Interfaces, ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2004), pp. 195--200, 2004. [detailed record] [bibtex] M. Gutierrez, D. Thalmann and F. Vexo, Augmented CGI Films, Second International Conference on Intelligent Access of Multimedia Documents, pp. 53-64, 2004. [detailed record] [bibtex] M. Gutierrez, R. Ott, D. Thalmann and F. Vexo, Mediators: virtual haptic interfaces for tele-operated robots, IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2004), pp. 515-520, 2004. [detailed record] [bibtex] M. Gutierrez, D. Thalmann and F. Vexo, Creating cyberworlds: experiences in computer science education, International Conference on Cyberworlds, pp. 401-408, 2004. [detailed record] [bibtex] M. Gutierrez, F. Vexo and D. Thalmann, The mobile animator: interactive character animation in collaborative virtual environments, IEEE Virtual Reality Conference, pp. 125-132, 2004. [detailed record] [bibtex] M. Gutierrez, F. Vexo and D. Thalmann, Reflex movements for a virtual human: a biology inspired approach, Third Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence SETN 2004. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence., Vol. 3025, pp. 525 - 534, 2004. [detailed record] [bibtex] 2003 P. Lemoine, F. Vexo and D. Thalmann, Interaction Techniques: 3D Menus-based Paradigm, AVIR 2003 , 2003. [detailed record] [bibtex] M. Gutierrez, F. Vexo and D. Thalmann, Controlling Virtual Humans Using PDAs, The 9th International Conference on Multi-Media Modeling (MMM'03), pp. 150-166, 2003. [detailed record] [bibtex] J. Ciger, M. Gutierrez, F. Vexo and D. Thalmann, The Magic Wand, Proceedings of 19th Spring Conference on Computer Graphics SCCG'03, pp. 119-124, 2003. [detailed record] [bibtex] Y. Amara, M. Gutierrez, F. Vexo and D. Thalmann, A MAYA Exporting Plug-in for MPEG-4 FBA Human Characters, First International Workshop on Interactive Rich Media Content Production: Architectures, Technologies, Applications and Tools: RICHMEDIA 2003, pp. 121--130, 2003. [detailed record] [bibtex] T. Abaci, R. de Bondeli, J. Ciger, M. Clavien, F. Erol, M. Gutierrez, S. Noverraz, O. Renault, F. Vexo and D. Thalmann, The enigma of the sphinx, International Conference on Cyberworlds 2003, pp. 106-113, 2003. [detailed record] [bibtex] 2002 F. Vexo, Virtual Reality future and dreams, 2002. [detailed record] [bibtex] B. Herbelin, F. Riquier, F. Vexo and D. Thalmann, Virtual Reality in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy : a preliminary study on Social Anxiety Disorder, VSMM2002, 2002. [detailed record] [bibtex] J. Esmerado, F. Vexo and D. Thalmann, Interaction in Virtual Worlds: Application to Music Performers, 2002. [detailed record] [bibtex] M. Gutierrez, F. Vexo and D. Thalmann, A MPEG-4 virtual human animation engine for interactive web based applications, Proceedings of IEEE ROMAN 2002. , pp. 554- 559, 2002. [detailed record] [bibtex] Ph.D. Thesis 2005 M.A. Gutiérrez Alonso, Semantic virtual environments, Ph.D. Thesis, 2005. [detailed record] [bibtex] Book 2008 M. Gutiérrez, F. Vexo and D. Thalmann, Stepping into Virtual Reality, Springer, 2008. [detailed record] [bibtex]

Skills - Virtual Reality - Advance Video Game Development - Multi Sensorial Human Machine Interface - Haptic Interfaces - Human Perception - Wearable Cross Modality devices - Human factors - Semantic Shapes - Advanced Surveillance and Security Applications - New interactive services for graphic mobile devices - Storytelling Teaching Computer Science Phd Students Hopmann Mathieu Salamin Patrick Stepping Into Virtual Reality Research Topics Postal Adresses Dr. Frederic Vexo -- Logitech EPFL Incubator PSE-C CH-1015 Lausanne Switzerland -- Research and Teaching Associate EPFL/IC/ISIM – Vrlab INJ 130 - Station 14 CH 1015 Lausanne Switzerland Web radio