Daniel Thalmann
Nationality: Swiss & Canadian
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Expertise
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_Thalmann
Conferences
Member Steering Committee, ACM Virtual Reality Software Technology (VRST)
Member Steering Committee, ACM Virtual Reality Continuum and its Applications in Industry (VRCAI)
Program CoChair, CASA 2026, Geneva, Switzerland, June 2026
Program CoChair, CGI 2026, Bournemouth, UK, July 2026
Program CoChair, CASA 2025, Strasbourg, France, June 2025
Program CoChair, CGI 2025, HongKong, China, July 2025
Program CoChair, CASA 2024, Wuhan, China, June 2024
Program CoChair, CGI 2024, Geneva, Switzerland, July 2024
Program CoChair CASA 2023, Limassol, Cyprus, June 2023
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
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Sports and hobbies: tennis, golf, ski
Professional
Associate 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
Awards
Honorary Doctorate (Honoris Causa)
University Paul-Sabatier in Toulouse, France
2003
Distinguished Career Award
Eurographics
2010
2012 Canadian Human Computer Communications Society Achievement Award
Canadian Human Computer Communications Society
2012
CGI Career Achievement Award
Computer graphics Society
2015
Honorary Member
EuroXR
2025
Selected publications
Design and Development of A Virtual Dolphinarium To Increase Functional Developmental Learning in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Y. Cai, N. K.H. Chia, D. Thalmann, N. K.N. Kee, D. Lu, J. Zheng, and N. M. Thalmann
Published in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol.21, No2, 2013, pp.208-217 in
Learning a Unified Blind Image Quality Metric via On-Line and Off-Line Big Training Instances
K. Gu, X. Xu, J. Qiao, J. Junfei, Q. Jiang; W. Lin, D. Thalmann
Published in IEEE Transactions on Big Data, Vol.6, No4, 2020, pp.780-791 in
Insights on the internet of things: past, present, and future directions
T. Sutikno, D. Thalmann
Published in TELKOMNIKA Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control, Vol. 20, No. 6, December 2022, pp. 1399-1420 in
PM2.5 Monitoring: Use Information Abundance Measurement and Wide and Deep Learning
K. Gu, H. Liu, Z. Xia, J. Qiao, W. Lin, D. Thalmann
Published in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Vol.32, No10, 2021, pp.4278-4290. in
Hough Forest with Optimized Leaves for Global Hand Pose Estimation with Arbitrary Postures
H. Liang, J. Yuan, J. Lee, L. Ge, and D. Thalmann
Published in IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2019, Vol.49, No2, pp.527-541 in
Real-time 3D Hand Pose Estimation with 3D Convolutional Neural Networks
L. Ge, H. Liang, J. Yuan and D. Thalmann
Published in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol.41 , No4, 2019, pp. 956-970 in
Robust 3D Hand Pose Estimation from Single Depth Images using Multi-View CNNs
L. Ge, H. Liang, J. Yuan and D. Thalmann
Published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing Vol.27, No9, 2018, pp.4422-4436 in
Torso Crowds
S. Stüvel, N. Magnenat-Thalmann, D.Thalmann, F. van der Stappen, A. Egges
Published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol.23, No7, 2017, pp.1823-1837 in
A History of Crowd Simulation: The Past, Evolution, and New Perspectives
S. R. Musse, V. J. Casso, D. Thalmann
Published in The Visual Computer in 2021
Infoscience
publications Daniel Thalmann
Teaching & PhD
Past EPFL PhD Students
Ying Yang, Jianhua Shen, Zhiyong Huang, Hansruedi Noser, Pascal Becheiraz, Tolga Capin, Walter Maurel, Tom Molet, Luciana Porcher Nedel, Srikanth Satya Bandi, Luc Emering, Christian Babski, Soraia Raupp Musse, Nathalie Farenc, Selim Saffet Balcisoy, Marcelo Kallmann, Joaquim Esmerado, Pierre Abel, Jean-Sébastien Monzani, Amaury Aubel, Ik Soo Lim, Anthony Guye-Vuillème, Michal Ponder, Branislav Ulicny, Patrick Roger Ernest Lemoine, Mario Gutiérrez Alonso, Bruno Herbelin, Jan Ciger, Anderson Maciel, Toni Conde, Sébastien Schertenleib, Sofiane Sarni, Etienne De Sevin, Tolga Abaci, Pascal Glardon, Pablo Stanislaw De Heras Ciechomski, Barbara Yersin, Jonathan Maim, Helena Stephanie Grillon Le Gallennec, Renaud Ott, Achille Peternier, Alejandra Garcia Rojas Martinez, Schubert Ribeiro de Carvalho, Ehsan Arbabi, Patrick Salamin, Damien Maupu, Sylvain Cardin, Xavier Righetti, Hareesh Puthiya Veettil, Anders Sandholm, Mathieu Hopmann