Daniel Thalmann
Professor Emeritus
daniel.thalmann@epfl.ch +41 21 693 26 72 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Thalmann
Citizenship: Swiss & Canadian
EPFL IC-DO
INM 016 (Bâtiment INM)
Station 14
1015 Lausanne
Web site: Web site: https://www.epfl.ch/schools/ic/about/faculty-members/#emeritus
Fields of expertise
Virtual humans, Crowd Simulation, Virtual reality, Real-time computer graphics, Augmented Reality, Social Robotics
Professional
Co-editor-in-chief, Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual WorldsAssociate Editor, The Visual Computer, Frontiers in Robotics and AI - Virtual Environments, Transactions on Edutainment, Journal Of Universal Computer Science, Computer Graphics & Geometry, International Journal Of Human Factors Modelling And Simulation, International Journal Of Virtual Reality,International Review on Computers and Software
Conferences
Member Steering Committee, ACM Virtual Reality Software Technology (VRST)Member Steering Committee, ACM Virtual Reality Continuum and its Applications in Indystry (VRCAI)
Program CoChair, CASA 2024, Wuhan, China, June 2024
Program CoChair, CGI 2024, Geneva, Switzerland, July 2024
Program CoChair CGI 2023, Shanghai, China, August 2023
CoChair ACM VRCAI 2022, Guangzhu, China, December 2022
Program CoChair, CGI 2022, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2022 (Virtual)
Program CoChair, 5th International Conference on Virtual reality Technology, Nov.2022 | Shanghai, ChinaProgram CoChair, CASA 2022
Program CoChair, CGI 2021, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2021 (Virtual)
Program CoChair, CASA 2021, Ottawa, Canada, July 2021 (virtual)
Program CoChair, CGI 2020, Geneva, Switzerland, June 2020 (Virtual)
Program CoChair, CASA 2020, Bournemouth, UK, May 2020 (Virtual)
Co-Chair, ISVC 14th International Symposium on Visual Computing, Virtual Reality area, Lake Tahoe, USA, October 2019
Program CoChair, CASA 2019, Paris, France, July 2019Program CoChair, WEB3D 2018
Program CoChair, CGI 2018
Program CoChair, CASA 2018
Program CoChair, CGI 2017
Program CoChair, CGI 2016
Program CoChair, CASA 2016
Program CoChair, CASA 2015
Program CoChair, CASA 2014
Program CoChair, CGI 2014
Program CoChair, ACM VRST 2013
Program CoChair, CVM 2013
Program CoChair, CASA 2013
Program CoChair, CGI 2012
Program CoChair, ICVR 2011
Program CoChair, CASA 2010
Program CoChair, ACM VRST 2009
Program CoChair, ACM VRCAI 2009
Program CoChair, CAD GRAPHICS 2009
Program CoChair, CGI 2008
Program CoChair, ACM VRCAI 2008
Program CoChair, Virtual Rehabilitation 2007
Program CoChair, CGI 2007
CoChair, Symposium on Intelligent Embedded Systems, Chennai, India, March 2017
CoChair, ACM VRCAI 2016
CoChair, ACM VRST 2015
CoChair, Workshop on Visual Computing for Social and Cognitive Robots, CVM 2015
CoChair, SIGGRAPH Asia 2014 Workshop on Autonomous Virtual Humans and Social
Robots in TelePresence
CoChair, ACM VRCAI 2012
CoChair, CyberWorlds 2011
CoChair, CASA 2011
CoChair, ACM VRST 2008
CoChair, CyberWorlds 2008
Chair, CGIM 2008
CoChair, CASA 2007
CoChair, ACM/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2007 (SCA 2007)
CoChair and Program Chair, CyberWorlds 2006
CoChair, ACM VRCIA 2006
CoChair, VSMM 2006
Private
Married to Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann3 children: Melanie Vanessa Sabrina
Sports and hobbies: tennis, golf, ski
Biography
Prof. Daniel Thalmann is a Swiss and Canadian Computer Scientist. He is currently Honorary Professor at EPFL and Director of Research development at MIRALab Sarl. Pioneer in research on Virtual Humans, his current research interests include social robots, crowd simulation and Virtual Reality. Daniel Thalmann has been the Founder of The Virtual Reality Lab (VRlab) at EPFL, Switzerland, Professor at The University of Montreal and Visiting Professor/ Researcher at CERN, University of Nebraska, University of Tokyo, and National University of Singapore. From 2009 to 2017, he was Visiting Professor at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is coeditor-in-chief of the Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, and member of the editorial board of 12 other journals. Daniel Thalmann was member of numerous Program Committees, Program Chair and CoChair of several conferences including IEEE VR, ACM VRST, and ACM VRCAI. Daniel Thalmann has published more than 600 papers in Graphics, Animation, and Virtual Reality. He is coeditor of 30 books, and coauthor of several books including 'Crowd Simulation' (second edition 2012) and 'Stepping Into Virtual Reality' (second edition 2023), published by Springer. 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. He also received the Eurographics Distinguished Career Award in 2010, the 2012 Canadian Human Computer Communications Society Achievement Award, and the CGI 2015 Career Achievement. Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_ThalmannPublications
Infoscience publications
Selected publications
| Y. Cai, N. K.H. Chia, D. Thalmann, N. K.N. Kee, D. Lu, J. Zheng, and N. M. Thalmann IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol.21, No2, 2013, pp.208-217 |
Design and Development of A Virtual Dolphinarium To Increase Functional Developmental Learning in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder |
| K. Gu, X. Xu, J. Qiao, J. Junfei, Q. Jiang; W. Lin, D. Thalmann IEEE Transactions on Big Data, Vol.6, No4, 2020, pp.780-791 |
Learning a Unified Blind Image Quality Metric via On-Line and Off-Line Big Training Instances |
| T. Sutikno, D. Thalmann TELKOMNIKA Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control, Vol. 20, No. 6, December 2022, pp. 1399-1420 |
Insights on the internet of things: past, present, and future directions |
| K. Gu, H. Liu, Z. Xia, J. Qiao, W. Lin, D. Thalmann IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Vol.32, No10, 2021, pp.4278-4290. |
PM2.5 Monitoring: Use Information Abundance Measurement and Wide and Deep Learning |
| H. Liang, J. Yuan, J. Lee, L. Ge, and D. Thalmann IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2019, Vol.49, No2, pp.527-541 |
Hough Forest with Optimized Leaves for Global Hand Pose Estimation with Arbitrary Postures |
| L. Ge, H. Liang, J. Yuan and D. Thalmann IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol.41 , No4, 2019, pp. 956-970 |
Real-time 3D Hand Pose Estimation with 3D Convolutional Neural Networks |
| L. Ge, H. Liang, J. Yuan and D. Thalmann IEEE Transactions on Image Processing Vol.27, No9, 2018, pp.4422-4436 |
Robust 3D Hand Pose Estimation from Single Depth Images using Multi-View CNNs |
| S. Stüvel, N. Magnenat-Thalmann, D.Thalmann, F. van der Stappen, A. Egges IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol.23, No7, 2017, pp.1823-1837 |
Torso Crowds |