Ronan Boulic
EPFL SCI IC RB
INJ 141 (Bâtiment INJ)
Station 14
CH-1015 Lausanne
Mission
RESEARCH: My major research interest is on motion synthesis for virtual humans and robot, in particular while performing immersive 3D full-body interactions within potentially complex virtual envrionments. This includes also human movement modeling with some recent activities in collaboration with EPFL Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (LNCO). Applications can be found in Virtual Prototyping, Games, Ergonomics, 3D Human-Machine Interfaces, etc... Since February 2011 I lead the Immersive Interaction research group (IIG).
TEACHING: I greatly appreciate to teach the basis of Computer Science (ICC), Programming and Software Engineering to first year's students from the Microtechnique and Electricity sections. These two courses will be merged into a single larger course of "Computational Thinking" starting in September 2018. I also teach the Virtual Reality Ms Course in spring with the aim to build a bridge with experimental sciences.
EPFL SERVICE: member of two doctoral school committees : EDIC (2015-2017) and EDRS (2012-on-going). Advising PhD students and teaching first led me to be part of the EPFL Teaching Staff Assembly / "CCE :Conference des Enseignants" from 2007 to discuss related issues. In October 1st 2010, I was elected President of the EPFL Teaching Staff Assembly (until spring 2013). We were providing recommendations about all new legal text related to the teaching, and actively involved in the on-going discussions about the Bachelor reform, MOOCs, Polymath, and the teaching infrastructure.
Since September 2008 I participate to the IC Faculty council and since September 2014 I'm one of the four teaching staff members at the school Assembly "AE: Assemblée d'Ecole". I was Vice-president from September 2017 to december 2017, and I'm President ad interim since January 2018 until August 2018. Within these 4 years at the AE I have led various working groups associated to consultations, for example the revision of the admission rules to the first year, and the evaluation of teaching.
Biography
I come from Brittany, France, where I have completed my PhD degree in Computer Science in 1986 from the University of Rennes, France, at the INRIA-IRISA research institute. I also received the Habilitation degree from the University of Grenoble, France, in march 1995.
I was hired in 1989 as First Assistant in the VRLAB, I became scientific collaborator, and senior researcher. I'm presently Senior Scientist (MER) and leader of the Immersive Interaction research Group (IIG).
I'm co-author of around 150 research papers among which 43 appeared in international peer-reviewed journals. I have contributed to multiple SNF projects and EU projects. Please check iig.epfl.ch for more details.
Advisor
Thibault Porssut
Presented PhD thesis:
Henrique Galvan Debarba (2016)
Eray Molla (2015)
Daniel Raunhardt (2010)
Schubert de Carvalho (2009)
Benoît Le Callennec (2006)
Paolo Baerlocher (2001)
Supervisor
Presented PhD thesis:
Damien Maupu
Ehsan Arbabi
Pascal Glardon
Anderson Maciel
Sofiane Sarni
Luc Emering
Tom Molet
Pascal Beicheraz
Huang Zihong
Co-Advisor
On-going PhD thesis:
Manuel Peinado Gallego (Uni. Alcala, Spain)
Presented PhD thesis:
Inmaculada Rodriguez Santiago (Uni. Alcala, Spain)
Ramon Mas Sanso (Uni. Balearic Islands, Spain)
Compétences
Experimental study of Embodiment in VR,
Immersive Interaction,
Human Movement Modelling,
Human Posture Optimization,
Real-Time 3D Interaction,
Motion Capture,
Inverse Kinematics,
Locomotion and steering control,
Expression of complex emotions
Publications
Check also my account on Research Gate
H. Galvan Debarba; R. Boulic; R. Salomon; O. Blanke; B. Herbelin : Self-attribution of distorted reaching movements in immersive virtual reality; Computers & Graphics. 2018-10-15. DOI : 10.1016/j.cag.2018.09.001.
S. Bovet; H. G. Debarba; B. Herbelin; E. Molla; R. Boulic : The Critical Role of Self-Contact for Embodiment in Virtual Reality; IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 2018-02-06. DOI : 10.1109/TVCG.2018.2794658.
H. Galvan Debarba; S. Bovet; R. Salomon; O. Blanke; B. Herbelin et al. : Characterizing first and third person viewpoints and their alternation for embodied interaction in virtual reality; PLoS One. 2017. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0190109.
E. Molla; H. Galvan Debarba; R. Boulic : Egocentric Mapping of Body Surface Constraints; IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 2017. DOI : 10.1109/TVCG.2017.2708083.
T. Porssut; H. G. Debarba; E. Canzoneri; B. Herbelin; R. Boulic : Virtual Zero Gravity Impact on Internal Gravity Model. 2017. 19th IEEE Virtual Reality Conference (VR), Los Angeles, CA, MAR 18-22, 2017. p. 309-310. DOI : 10.1109/VR.2017.7892300.
K. Li; J. Yang; L. Liu; R. Boulic; Y.-K. Lai et al. : SPA: Sparse Photorealistic Animation Using a Single RGB-D Camera; Ieee Transactions On Circuits And Systems For Video Technology. 2017. DOI : 10.1109/Tcsvt.2016.2556419.
N. Wang; J. Ahn; R. Boulic : Evaluating the Sensitivity to Virtual Characters Facial Asymmetry in Emotion Synthesis; Applied Artificial Intelligence. 2017. DOI : 10.1080/08839514.2017.1299983.
H. Galvan Debarba / R. Boulic; B. Herbelin (Dir.) : Embodiment Sensitivity to Movement Distortion and Perspective Taking in Virtual Reality. Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7180.
R. Boulic; U. Evci; E. Molla; P. Pisupati : One Step from the Locomotion to the Stepping Pattern. 2016. the 29th International Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 23-25 05 2016. p. 165-168. DOI : 10.1145/2915926.2915949.
M. Mahmudi; P. Harish; B. Le Callennec; R. Boulic : Artist-Oriented 3D Character Posing from 2D Strokes; Computers & Graphics. 2016. DOI : 10.1016/j.cag.2016.03.008.
P. K. Harish; M. Mahmudi; B. Le Callennec; R. Boulic : Parallel Inverse Kinematics for Multithreaded Architectures; ACM Transactions on Graphics. 2016. DOI : 10.1145/2887740.
E. Molla / R. Boulic (Dir.) : Precise and Responsive Performance Animation for Embodied Immersive Interactions. Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6789.
H. G. Debarba; E. Molla; B. Herbelin; R. Boulic : Characterizing embodied interaction in First and Third Person Perspective viewpoints. 2015. 2015 IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces (3DUI), Arles, France, 23-24 March 2015. p. 67-72. DOI : 10.1109/3DUI.2015.7131728.
H. G. Debarba; S. Perrin; B. Herbelin; R. Boulic : Embodied interaction using non-planar projections in immersive virtual reality. 2015. 21st ACM Symposium, Beijing, China, 13-15 November 2015. p. 125-128. DOI : 10.1145/2821592.2821603.
H. Galvan Debarba; S. Perrin; B. Herbelin; R. Boulic : Embodied Interaction using Non-Planar Projections in Immersive Virtual Reality. 2015. 21st ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST '15), Beijing, China, November 13-15, 2015.
H. Galvan Debarba; E. Molla; B. Herbelin; R. Boulic : Characterizing Embodied Interaction in First and Third Person Perspective Viewpoints. 2015. 2015 IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces (3DUI), Arles, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France, March 23-24, 2015.
S. Carvalho; R. Boulic; C. Vidal; D. Thalmann : Latent motion spaces for full-body motion editing; Vis Comput. 2013. DOI : 10.1007/s00371-012-0678-z.
H. G. Debarba; J. Grandi; A. Maciel; L. Nedel; R. Boulic : Towards a Disambiguation Canvas. 2013. 20th IEEE Virtual Reality Conference (VR), Orlando, FL, MAR 16-23, 2013. p. 113-114.
E. Molla; R. Boulic : Singularity Free Parametrization of Human Limbs. 2013. MIG '13 Proceedings of the Motion in Games, Dublin, Ireland, 06-08 November 2013. p. 165-174. DOI : 10.1145/2522628.2522649.
E. Molla; R. Boulic : A two-arm coordination model for phantom limb pain rehabilitation. 2013. The 19th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2013), Singapore, 06-09 October 2013. p. 35. DOI : 10.1145/2503713.2503739.
H. Galvan Debarba; G. J. Grandi; A. Maciel; L. Nedel; R. Boulic : Disambiguation Canvas: A Precise Selection Technique for Virtual Environments. 2013. Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013, Cape Town, South Africa, September 2-6, 2013. p. 388-405. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-40477-1_24.
J. Ahn; S. Gobron; D. Thalmann; R. Boulic : Asymmetric facial expressions: revealing richer emotions for embodied conversational agents; Computer Animation And Virtual Worlds. 2013. DOI : 10.1002/cav.1539.
J. Ahn; S. Gobron; D. Garcia; Q. Silvestre; D. Thalmann et al. : An NVC Emotional Model for Conversational Virtual Humans in a 3D Chatting Environment. 2012. 7th International Conference on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects (AMDO 2012), Port d’Andratx, Mallorca, Spain, July 11-13, 2012. p. 47-57. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-31567-1_5.
S. Gobron; J. Ahn; D. Garcia; Q. Silvestre; D. Thalmann et al. : An Event-Based Architecture to Manage Virtual Human Non-Verbal Communication in 3D Chatting Environment. 2012. 7th International Conference on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects (AMDO 2012), Port d’Andratx, Mallorca, Spain, July 11-13, 2012. p. 58-68. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-31567-1_6.
J. Ahn; S. Gobron; D. Thalmann; R. Boulic : Conveying Real-Time Ambivalent Feelings through Asymmetric Facial Expressions. 2012. 5th International Conference on Motion in Games (MIG 2012), Rennes, France, November 15-17, 2012. p. 122-133. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-34710-8_12.
J. Ahn; N. Wang; D. Thalmann; R. Boulic : Within-Crowd Immersive Evaluation of Collision Avoidance Behaviors. 2012. 11th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and its Applications in Industry (VRCAI 2012), Singapore, December 2-4, 2012. p. 231-238. DOI : 10.1145/2407516.2407573.
E. Arbabi; J. Schmid; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann; N. Magnenat-Thalmann : Sensitivity of hip tissues contact evaluation to the methods used for estimating the hip joint center of rotation; Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing. 2012. DOI : 10.1007/s11517-012-0873-0.
D. Raunhardt; R. Boulic : Immersive singularity-free full-body interactions with reduced marker set; Computer Animation And Virtual Worlds. 2011. DOI : 10.1002/cav.378.
J. Ahn; S. Gobron; Q. Silvestre; H. Ben Shitrit; M. Raca et al. : Long Term Real Trajectory Reuse Through Region Goal Satisfaction. 2011. International Conference on Motion in Games (MIG), Edinburgh, UK, November 13-15, 2011. p. 412-423. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-25090-3_35.
R. Boulic; D. Maupu; M. Peinado; D. Raunhardt : Spatial Awareness in Full-Body Immersive Interactions: Where Do We Stand?. 2010. 3rd International Conference on Motion in Games, Utrecht, NETHERLANDS, Nov 14-16, 2010. p. 59-69. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-16958-8_7.
E. Arbabi; S. Chegini; R. Boulic; M. Tannast; S. J. Ferguson et al. : Penetration Depth Method-Novel Real-Time Strategy for Evaluating Femoroacetabular Impingement; Journal Of Orthopaedic Research. 2010. DOI : 10.1002/jor.21076.
D. Raunhardt / R. Boulic (Dir.) : Motion Synergies for Real-Time Postural Control in Virtual Environments. Lausanne, EPFL, 2010. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-4637.
E. Arbabi; S. Chegini; R. Boulic; S. J. Ferguson; D. Thalmann : Estimating Hip Joint Contact Pressure from Geometric Features. 2009. Workshop on 3D Physiological Human, Zermatt, SWITZERLAND, Dec, 2008. p. 165-177. DOI : 10.1007/978-1-84882-565-9_11.
B. Mazzarino; M. Peinado; R. Boulic; G. Volpe; M. M. Wanderley : Improving the Believability of Virtual Characters Using Qualitative Gesture Analysis. 2009. 7th International Gesture Workshop, Lisbon, PORTUGAL, May 23-25, 2007. p. 48-56. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-540-92865-2_5.
S. R. Carvalho; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : Motion Pattern Encapsulation for Data-Driven Constraint-Based Motion Editing. 2009. Motion in Games, Second International Workshop, MIG 2009, Zeist, The Netherlands, November 21-24, 2009. p. 116-127. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-10347-6.
R. Boulic; D. Raunhardt : Integrated Analytic and Linearized Inverse Kinematics for Precise Full Body Interactions. 2009. Second International Workshop on Motion in Games, Zeist, The Netherlands, November 21-24, 2009. p. 231-242. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-10347-6_21.
F. Multon; R. Boulic : Avatar et Humain Virtuel Interactif; Le traité de la réalité virtuelle; Paris: Presses de l'Ecole des Mines de Paris, 2009.
D. Maupu; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : Characterizing full-body reach duration across task and viewpoint modalities; Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting. 2009.
M. Peinado; D. Meziat; D. Maupu; D. Raunhardt; D. Thalmann et al. : Full-Body Avatar Control with Environment Awareness; Ieee Computer Graphics And Applications. 2009. DOI : 10.1109/MCG.2009.42.
R. Boulic; D. Maupu; D. Thalmann : On scaling strategies for the full-body postural control of virtual mannequins; Interacting With Computers. 2009. DOI : 10.1016/j.intcom.2008.10.002.
X. Maurice; A. Sandholm; N. Pronost; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : A subject-specific software solution for the modeling and the visualization of muscles deformations; Visual Computer. 2009. DOI : 10.1007/s00371-009-0313-9.
D. Raunhardt; R. Boulic : Motion constraint; Visual Computer. 2009. DOI : 10.1007/s00371-009-0336-2.
S. R. d. Carvalho / D. Thalmann; R. Boulic (Dir.) : Data-driven constraint-based motion editing. Lausanne, EPFL, 2009. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-4558.
E. Arbabi; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : Fast collision detection methods for joint surfaces; Journal of Biomechanics. 2009. DOI : 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2008.10.017.
R. Boulic : Relaxed Steering towards Oriented Region Goals. 2008. Workshop on Motion in Games, Utrecht, NETHERLANDS, Jun 14-17, 2008. p. 176-187. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-540-89220-5.
D. Raunhardt; R. Boulic : Real-Time Joint Coupling of the Spine for Inverse Kinematics; Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting. 2008.
L. Unzueta; M. Peinado; R. Boulic; A. Suescun : Full-body performance animation with Sequential Inverse Kinematics; Graphical Models. 2008. DOI : 10.1016/j.gmod.2008.03.002.
I. Rodriguez; R. Boulic : Evaluating the influence of induced passive torques in the simulation of time-varying human poses; Computers & Graphics-Uk. 2008. DOI : 10.1016/j.cag.2008.06.001.
M. Peinado; D. Meziat; D. Maupu; D. Raunhardt; D. Thalmann et al. : Accurate On-line Avatar Control with Collision Anticipation. 2007. ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, Newport Beach, CA, Nov 05-07, 2007. p. 89-98. DOI : 10.1145/1315184.1315200.
P. Glardon; R. Boulic : Virtual Human Animation; Crowd Simulation; Springer, 2007.
A. Maciel; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : Efficient Collision Detection within Deforming Spherical Sliding Contact; IEEE Transactions in Visualization and Computer Graphics. 2007. DOI : 10.1109/TVCG.2007.1016.
S. Carvalho; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : Interactive Low-Dimensional Human Motion Synthesis by Combining Motion Models and PIK; Computer Animation & Virtual Worlds. 2007.
E. Arbabi; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : A Fast Method for Finding Range of Motion in the Human Joints. 2007. 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Lyon, France, August 23-26, 2007.
E. Arbabi; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : A fast method for finding maximum range of motion in the hip joint. 2007. The 7th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery (CAOS'07), Heidelberg, Germany, June 20-23, 2007. p. 497-500.
S. Carvalho; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : Motion Pattern Preserving IK Operating in the Motion Principal Coefficients Space. 2007. The 15th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision ( WSCG 2007), Plzen - Czech Republic, January 29 - February 1, 2007. p. 97-104.
D. Raunhardt; R. Boulic : Progressive Clamping. 2007. Conference of ICRA07.
D. Raunhardt; R. Boulic : Exploiting Coupled Joints. 2007. Conference of GRAPP'07, Barcelona, Spain.
I. Rodriguez-Santiago; R. Boulic : Simulating Reactive/Passive Postures by means of a Human Active Torque hybrid Optimization. 2007. Conference of GRAPP07, Barcelona, Spain.
P. Glardon; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : Dynamic Obstacle Clearing for Real-time Character Animation; The Visual Computer. 2006. DOI : 10.1007/s00371-006-0017-3.
S. Donikian; F. Multon; R. Boulic : Modèles pour les Humanoïdes; Traité de Réalité Virtuelle; Presses de l’Ecoles des Mines de Paris, 2006.
M. Peinado; D. Meziat; D. Raunhardt; R. Boulic : Environment-Aware Postural Control of Virtual Humans for Real-time Applications. 2006. of the SAE Conference on Digital Human Modeling for Design and Engineering , Lyon, France, July 2006.
R. Boulic; J. Varona; L. Unzueta; M. Peinado; A. Suescun et al. : Evaluation of on-line analytic and numeric inverse kinematics approaches driven by partial vision input; Virtual Reality . 2006. DOI : 10.1007/s10055-006-0024-8.
B. Le Callennec; R. Boulic : Robust Kinematic Constraint Detection for Motion Data. 2006. ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, Vienna, Austria, September 2006.
P. Glardon; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : Robust on-line adaptive footplant detection and enforcement for locomotion; Visual Computer. 2006. DOI : 10.1007/s00371-006-0376-9.
B. Le Callennec; R. Boulic : Interactive motion deformation with prioritized constraints; Graphical Models. 2006. DOI : 10.1016/j.gmod.2005.03.001.
B. Le Callennec / R. Boulic (Dir.) : Interactive techniques for motion deformation of articulated figures using prioritized constraints. Lausanne, EPFL, 2006. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-3459.
A. Maciel; S. Sarni; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : Stress Distribution Visualization on Pre- and Post-Operative Virtual Hip Joint. 2005. Computer Aided Orthopedic Surgery 2005, Helsinki, Finland, 2005. p. 298-301.
S. Sarni; A. Maciel; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : A spreadsheet framework for visual exploration of biomedical datasets. 2005. 18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2005, Dublin, Ireland, June 23-24, 2005. DOI : 10.1109/CBMS.2005.19.
M. Peinado; R. Boulic; B. Le Callennec; D. Méziat : Progressive Cartesian Inequality Constraints for the Inverse Kinematics Control of Articulated Chains. 2005. Eurographics, Short Presentation session.
H. Puthiya Veettilh; R. Boulic; A. Sharma; B. Le Callennec; K. Sawada et al. : An Intuitive IK Postural Control System for Anthropometric Digital Human Models. 2005. 11th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia.
R. Boulic; M. Peinado; B. Le Callennec : Challenges in exploiting prioritized inverse kinematics for motion capture and postural control. 2005. 6th International Gesture Workshop, GW 2005, Berder Island, France, 2005.
R. Boulic : Proactive Steering Toward Oriented Targets. 2005.
P. Glardon; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : On-line adapted transition between locomotion and jump. 2005. Computer Graphics International 2005 , Stony Brook, NY, USA, 2005.
S. Sarni; A. Maciel; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : Spreadsheet Framework for Visual Exploration of Biomedical Datasets. 2005. p. 159-164.
A. Maciel; S. Sarni; O. Buchwalder; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : Multi-finger haptic rendering of deformable objects. 2004. Tenth Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments (In Cooperation with ACM Siggraph), Grenoble, France, June 2004. p. 105-112. DOI : 10.2312/EGVE/EGVE04/105-112.
S. Sarni; A. Maciel; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : Evaluation and visualization of stress and strain on soft biological tissues in contact. 2004. Shape Modeling Applications, 2004, Genova, Italy, June 7-9, 2004. p. 255 - 262. DOI : 10.1109/SMI.2004.1314512.
S. Garchery; R. Boulic; T. Capin : Standards for Virtual Human Animation: H-ANIM and MPEG4; Handbook of Virtual Humans; John Wiley, 2004.
R. Boulic; P. Baerlocher : Computer Animation Techniques; Handbook of Virtual Humans; John Wiley, 2004.
M. Salvati; B. Le Callennec; R. Boulic : A Generic Method for Geometric Contraints Detection. 2004. Eurographics, Grenoble, France, 30 August - 3 September, 2004.
M. Peinado; B. Herbelin; M. Wanderley; B. Le Callennec; R. Boulic et al. : Towards Configurable Motion Capture with Prioritized Inverse Kinematics. 2004. The Third International Workshop on Virtual Rehabilitation.
A. Maciel; S. Sarni; O. Buchwalder; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : Multi-Finger Haptic Rendering of Deformable Objects, In. Tenth Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments. 2004. Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium, Grenoble, France . p. 105-111.
P. Glardon; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : A Coherent Locomotion Engine Extrapolating Beyond Experimental Data. 2004. Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA), Geneva, Switzerland, 2204. p. 73-84.
P. Glardon; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : Motion Blending: Illustration with Cyclic and Episodic Patterns. 2004. CAPTECH Workshop, Zermatt, Switzerland, December, 2004.
B. Le Callennec; R. Boulic : Interactive Motion Deformation with Prioritized Constraints. 2004. ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, Grenoble, France, August, 2004.
P. Baerlocher; R. Boulic : An inverse kinematics architecture enforcing an arbitrary number of strict priority levels; Visual Computer. 2004. DOI : 10.1007/s00371-004-0244-4.
P. Glardon; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : PCA-based walking engine using motion capture data. 2004. Computer Graphics International, 2004, Crete, Greece, 2004.
R. Urtasun; P. Glardon; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann; P. Fua : Style-based Motion Synthesis; Computer Graphics Forum. 2004. DOI : 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2004.00809.x.
I. Rodríguez; M. Peinado; R. Boulic; D. Meziat : Approximating Human Reaching Volumes using Inverse Kinematics. 2003. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Karlsruhe & Munich, Germany. p. 81-88.
I. Rodríguez; R. Boulic; D. Meziat : A Model to Assess Fatigue at Joint-Level Using the Half-Joint Concept. 2003. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Karlsruhe & Munich, Germany. p. 97-105.
A. Maciel; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : Towards a Parameterization Method for Virtual Soft Tissues Based on Properties of Biological Tissue. 2003. 5th IFAC 2003 Symposium on Modelling and Control in Biomedical Systems (including Biological Systems) , Melbourne, Australia, August, 2003. p. 235-240.
D. Le; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : Integrating Age Attributes to Virtual Human Locomotion; International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. 2003.
R. Boulic; P. Glardon; D. Thalmann : From Measurements to Model: the Walk Engine. 2003. 6th Conference on Optical 3D measurement Techniques, Zurich, Switzerland, 2003.
R. Boulic; B. Le Callennec; M. Herren; H. Bay : Motion Editing with Prioritized Constraints. 2003. 1st International Workshop on Interactive Rich Media Content Production - Architectures, Technologies, Lausanne, Switzerland, 16-17 October, 2003.
R. Boulic; B. Le Callennec; M. Herren; H. Bay : Experimenting Prioritized IK for Motion Editing. 2003. Annual Conference of the European association for Computer Graphics, Granada, Spain, 1-6 September.
R. Boulic : Keynote speaker: Cinématique inverse pour l'optimisation de postures humaines soumises à des contraintes multiples. 2003. Humanoid Day, Societe Francaise de Biomecanique, Valencienne, Spain, 15 May 2003.
A. Maciel; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : Deformable tissue parameterized by properties of real biological tissue. 2003.
I. Rodriguez; R. Boulic; D. Meziat : Visualizing human fatigue at joint level with the half-joint pair concept. 2003. p. 37-45. DOI : 10.1117/12.473943.
I. Rodriguez; M. Peinado; R. Boulic; D. Meziat : Bringing the human arm reachable space to a virtual environment for its analysis. 2003.
I. Rodriguez; M. Peinado; R. Boulic; D. Meziat : Reaching volumes generated by means of octal trees and Cartesian constraints. 2003. DOI : 10.1109/CGI.2003.1214490.
I. Rodriguez; R. Boulic; D. Meziat : A Joint-level Model of Fatigue for the Postural Control of Virtual Humans. 2002. 5th Int. Conference "Human and Computer" HC02, Aizu University , Japan, September, 2002.
R. Boulic; P. Baerlocher : Cinématique Inverse pour Personnage en 3D, Solutions analytiques et variationnelles; Journal de CFAO. 2001.
L. Herda; P. Fua; R. Plankers; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : Using skeleton-based tracking to increase the reliability of optical motion capture; Human Movement Science. 2001. DOI : 10.1016/S0167-9457(01)00050-1.
P. Baerlocher / R. Boulic (Dir.) : Inverse kinematics techniques of the interactive posture control of articulated figures. Lausanne, EPFL, 2001. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-2383.
J. Monzani; P. Baerlocher; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : Using an Intermediate Skeleton and Inverse Kinematics for Motion Retargeting; Computer Graphics Forum. 2000. DOI : 10.1111/1467-8659.00393.
A. Aubel; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : Real-time display of virtual humans: levels of details and impostors; IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. 2000. DOI : 10.1109/76.825720.
P. Baerlocher; R. Boulic : Kinematic control of the mass properties of redundant articulated bodies. 2000. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2000.846413.
R. Boulic; M. C. Silaghi; D. Thalmann : Visualization of local movements for optimal marker positioning. 2000. First International Workshop on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects, AMDO 2000, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 7-9 September, 2000. p. 133-144.
L. Emering; R. Boulic; T. Molet; D. Thalmann : Versatile tuning of humanoid agent activity; Computer Graphics Forum. 2000. DOI : 10.1111/1467-8659.00460.
N. Farenc; S. R. Musse; E. Schweiss; M. Kallmann; O. Aune et al. : A paradigm for controlling virtual humans in urban environment simulations; Applied Artificial Intelligence. 2000. DOI : 10.1080/088395100117160.
L. Herda; P. Fua; R. Plankers; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : Skeleton-based motion capture for robust reconstruction of human motion. 2000. Computer Animation, Philadelphia, PA, USA. DOI : 10.1109/CA.2000.889046.
J. S. Monzani; P. Baerlocher; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : Using an intermediate skeleton and inverse kinematics for motion retargeting. 2000. Eurographics 2000, Interlaken, Switzerland, 20-25 August 2000. p. 11-19.
P. Fua; L. Herda; R. Plankers; R. Boulic : Human Shape and Motion Recovery Using Animation Models. 2000.
Z. Huang; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : Motion Editing Using Multiresolution Filtering. 1999. Multimedia Modeling Conference , Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 4-8 Octobre, 1999.
D. Thalmann; N. Farenc; R. Boulic : Virtual human life simulation and database: why and how. 1999. International Symposium on Database Applications in Non-Traditional Environments 1999 (DANTE'99), Kyoto, Japan, 28-30 November 1999. DOI : 10.1109/DANTE.1999.844994.
A. Aubel; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : Lowering the cost of virtual human rendering with structured animated impostors. 1999. 7th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Interactive Digital Media'99. in co-operation with EUROGRAPHICS and IFIP WG 5.10. WSCG'99., Plzen, Czech Republic.
C. Bordeux; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : An efficient and flexible perception pipeline for autonomous agents. 1999. Computer Graphics Forum, Milan, Italy. p. 23-9.
L. Emering; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : Conferring human action recognition skills to life-like agents; Applied Artificial Intelligence Journal. 1999. DOI : 10.1080/088395199117379.
L. Emering; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : Body expression in virtual environments. 1999. 8th International Workshop on Robot and Human Interaction. RO-MAN '99 , Pisa, Italy, September, 1999. DOI : 10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900336.
N. Farenc; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : An Informed Environment dedicated to the simulation of virtual humans in urban context. 1999. p. 309-17.
T. Molet; R. Boulic; S. Rezzonico; D. Thalmann : An architecture for immersive evaluation of complex human tasks; IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation. 1999. DOI : 10.1109/70.768180.
T. Molet; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : Human motion capture driven by orientation measurements; Presence. 1999. DOI : 10.1162/105474699566161.
N. Farenc; S. Raupp Musse; E. Schweiss; M. Kallmann; O. Aune et al. : One Step Towards Virtual Human Management for Urban Environment Simulation. 1998. Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces, Brighton, UK., 23-28 August.
A. Aubel; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : Animated impostors for real-time display of numerous virtual humans. 1998. First International Conference onVirtual Worlds 1998 , VW'98, Paris, France, 1-3 July, 1998.
P. Baerlocher; R. Boulic : Task-priority formulations for the kinematic control of highly redundant articulated structures. 1998. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Victoria, BC, Canada, 12-14 Décembre, 1998. p. 323-329. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.1998.724639.
L. Emering; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : Interacting with virtual humans through body actions; IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 1998. DOI : 10.1109/38.637261.
M. C. Silaghi; R. Plankers; R. Boulic; P. Fua; D. Thalmann : Local and global skeleton fitting techniques for optical motion capture. 1998. Modelling and Motion Capture Techniques for Virtual Environments, Geneva, Switzerland, 26-27 November, 1998. p. 26-40.
M.-C. Silaghi; R. Plaenkers; R. Boulic; P. Fua; D. Thalmann : Local and Global Skeleton Fitting Techniques for Optical Motion Capture. 1998. p. 26-40.
M. C. Silaghi; R. Plankers; R. Boulic; P. Fua; D. Thalmann : Local and Global Skeleton Fitting Techniques for Optical Motion Capture , Modeling and Motion Capture Techniques for Virtual Environments. 1998. p. 26-40.
R. Mas; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : Extended Grasping Behavior for Autonomous, Human Agents. 1997. First ACM Conf. on Autonomous Agents'97,, Los Angeles - Marina Del Rey, USA, 5-8 February, 1997.
R. Boulic; Z. Huang; D. Thalmann : A Comparison of Design Strategies for 3D Human Motions; Human Comfort and Security of Information Systems ; Advanced interface for the Information Society; Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 1997. p. 19-21.
R. Boulic; P. Becheiraz; L. Emering; D. Thalmann : Integration of motion control techniques for virtual human and avatar real-time animation. 1997. ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 1997, Lausanne, Switzerland. DOI : 10.1145/261135.261156.
R. Boulic; R. Mas; D. Tahlmann : Interactive identification of the center of mass reachable space for an articulated manipulator. 1997. 8th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, Monterey, CA, USA. DOI : 10.1109/ICAR.1997.620242.
R. Boulic; R. Mas-Sanso; D. Thalmann : Complex character positioning based on a compatible flow model of multiple supports; IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 1997. DOI : 10.1109/2945.620491.
L. Emering; R. Boulic; S. Balcisoy; D. Thalmann : Multi-level modeling and recognition of human actions involving full body motion. 1997. First International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Marina del Rey, CA, USA. DOI : 10.1145/267658.267794.
L. Emering; R. Boulic; S. Balcisoy; D. Thalmann : Real-time interactions with virtual agents driven by human action identification. 1997. First International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Marina del Rey, CA, USA, 1997. DOI : 10.1145/267658.269948.
L. Emering; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : Live participant's action recognition for virtual reality interactions. 1997. The Fifth Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications, Seoul, South Korea. DOI : 10.1109/PCCGA.1997.626167.
T. Molet; H. Zhiyong; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : An animation interface designed for motion capture. 1997. Conference on Computer Animation '97 , Geneva, Switzerland. DOI : 10.1109/CA.1997.601044.
R. Boulic; G. Hegron : Computer Animation and Simulation 96 ; Springer Verlag, Wien.
R. Boulic; R. Mas : Hierarchical Kinematics Behaviors for Complex Articulated Figures; Interactive Computer Animation; Prentice Hall, 1996. p. 40-70.
C. Babski; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann; P.-F. Leyvraz; P.-Y. Zambelli et al. : A Robust Motion Signature for the Analysis of Knee Trajectories. 1996. Fourth International Symposium on 3-D Analysis of Human Movement, June, 1996.
R. Boulic; R. Mas; D. Thalmann : A robust approach for the control of the center of mass with inverse kinetics; Computers & Graphics. 1996. DOI : 10.1016/S0097-8493(96)00043-X.
R. Boulic; S. Rezzonico; D. Thalmann : Multi-finger manipulation of virtual objects. 1996. ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality and Technology, Hong Kong.
T. Molet; R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : A real time anatomical converter for human motion capture. 1996. Computer Animation and Simulation '96. , Poitiers, France.
R. Boulic; R. Mas; D. Thalmann : Position control of the center of mass for articulated figures in multiple support. 1996. Computer Animation and Simulation '95., Maastricht, Netherlands, 1995.
R. Boulic; Z. Hang; J. Shen; T. Molet; T. Capin et al. : A system for the Parallel Integrated Motion of Multiple Deformable Human Characters with Collision Detection; Computer Graphics Forum. 1995.
D. Thalmann; R. Boulic; Z. Huang; H. Noser : Virtual and Real Humans Interacting in the Virtual World. 1995. International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia `95, Gifu, Japan, 1995. p. 48-57.
S. Rezzonico; Z. Huang; R. Boulic; N. Magnenat Thalmann; D. Thalmann : Consistent Grasping Interactions with Virtual Actors Based on the Multi-sensor Hand Model; Virtual Environments '95; Wien: Springer, 1995. p. 107-118.
Z. Huang; R. Boulic; N. Magnenat Thalmann; D. Thalmann : Multi-sensor Approach for Grasping and 3D Interaction. 1995. Computer Graphics International `95, Leeds, UK, 1995. p. 235-254.
R. Boulic; T. Capin; Z. Huang; P. Kalra; B. Lintermann et al. : The HUMANOID environment for interactive animation of multiple deformable human characters. 1995. Computer Graphics Forum, Maastricht, Netherlands. p. 337-48.
S. Rezzonicol; R. Boulic; Z. Huang; N. M. Thalmann; D. Thalmann : Consistent grasping in virtual environments based on the interactive grasping automata. 1995.
R. Boulic; D. Balmer; Z. Huang; D. Thalmann : A Stereoscopic Restitution Environment for 3D anaysis of Gait. 1994. 3rd Symposium of 3D Analysis of Human Motion, Stockholm, Sweeden, 1994. p. 53-56.
R. Boulic; R. Mas; D. Thalmann : Inverse Kinetics for Center of Mass Position Control and Posture Optimization. 1994. European Workshop on Combined Real and Synthetic Image Processingfor Broadcast and video Production, Hamburg, Germany, November, 1994.
R. Boulic; H. Noser; D. Thalmann : Automatic derivation of curved human walking trajectories from synthetic vision. 1994. Computer Animation '94, Geneva, Switzerland, 1994. DOI : 10.1109/CA.1994.324002.
R. Boulic; H. Zhiyong; N. M. Thalmann; D. Thalmann : Goal-oriented design and correction of articulated figure motion with the TRACK system; Computers & Graphics. 1994. DOI : 10.1016/0097-8493(94)90056-6.
R. Boulic; H. Noser; D. Thalmann : Vision-based Human Free-Walking on Sparse Foothold Locations. 1993. Fourth Eurographics Workshop on Animation andSimulation, Barcelona, Spain, 1993. p. 173-191..
R. Boulic; Z. Huang; N. M. Thalmann; D. Thalmann : A unified framework for the motion manipulation of articulated figures with the TRACK system. 1993. The Third International Conference on CAD and Computer Graphics, Beijing, China, 1993.
R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : TRACK: A Kinematic Goal-Oriented Animation System for Coordinated Editing of Joint-Space Based Motions. 1992. 3rd Eurographics Workshop on Animation and Simulation, Cambridge, UK, 1992.
L. Bezault; R. Boulic; N. Magnenat-Thalmann; D. Thalmann : An interactive tool for the design of human free-walking trajectories. 1992. Creating and Animating the Virtual World'92, Geneva, Switzerland, 1992.
R. Boulic; D. Thalmann : Combined direct and inverse kinematic control for articulated figure motion editing; Computer Graphics Forum. 1992. DOI : 10.1111/1467-8659.1140189.
R. Boulic; O. Renault : 3D Hierarchies for Animation; New Trends in Animation and Visualization; Chichester, UK: John Wiley and Sons, 1991. p. 59-78.
R. Boulic; N. Magnenat-Thalmann; D. Thalmann : Coach-Trainee: A New Methodology for the Correction of Predefined Motions. 1990. Eurographics Workshop on Animation and Simulation'90, Lausanne, Switzerland. p. 1-14.
R. Boulic; N. Magnenat-Thalmann; D. Thalmann : Human free-walking model for a real-time interactive design of gaits. 1990. Computer Animation '90, Geneva, Switzerland, 1990.
R. Boulic; N. M. Thalmann; D. Thalmann : A global human walking model with real-time kinematic personification; Visual Computer. 1990. DOI : 10.1007/BF01901021.
Enseignement & Phd
Enseignement
- Computer Science,
- Communication Systems
Programmes doctoraux
- Doctoral program in computer and communication sciences
- Doctoral Program in Manufacturing Systems and Robotics
- Doctoral program in robotics, control, and intelligent systems
- Doctoral Program Digital Humanities
Doctorants
Delahaye Mathias Guy
Hartman Neal David
Porssut Thibault Serge Mario
Galvan Debarba Henrique ...
Le Callennec Benoît ...
Molla Eray ...
Raunhardt Daniel ...
Ribeiro de Carvalho Schubert ...
Hartman Neal David
Porssut Thibault Serge Mario
A dirigé les thèses de
Baerlocher Paolo ...Galvan Debarba Henrique ...
Le Callennec Benoît ...
Molla Eray ...
Raunhardt Daniel ...
Ribeiro de Carvalho Schubert ...
Cours
Information, calcul, communication
L'objectif de ce cours est d'introduire les étudiants à la pensée algorithmique, de les familiariser avec les fondamentaux de l'Informatique et de développer une première compétence en programmation (langage C++). 
Programmation orientée projet
Ce cours complète les connaissances sur le langage C++, en particulier sur le développement d'application modulaire
robuste (principe de séparation des fonctionnalités). La dimension pratique étant jugée primordiale pour l'acquisition de ce savoir-faire, ...
Virtual reality
Ce cours présente les concepts et les technologies clef pour mettre en oeuvre l'interaction 3D immersive communément appelée "Réalité Virtuelle". Le cours s'appuie sur la connaissance de la perception-action humaine pour permettre la mise au points d'appl...