Ronan Boulic
Senior Scientist
EPFL IC SIN-GE
INN 112 (Bâtiment INN)
Station 14
CH-1015 Lausanne
Web site: Web site: https://sin.epfl.ch
EPFL IC SSC-GE
INR 130 (Bâtiment INR)
Station 14
CH-1015 Lausanne
Web site: Web site: https://ssc.epfl.ch
EPFL SCI IC RB
INJ 141 (Bâtiment INJ)
Station 14
CH-1015 Lausanne
+41 21 693 52 46
+41 21 693 46 55
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Web site: Web site: https://iig.epfl.ch
Fields of expertise
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
Immersive Interaction,
Human Movement Modelling,
Human Posture Optimization,
Real-Time 3D Interaction,
Motion Capture,
Inverse Kinematics,
Locomotion and steering control,
Expression of complex emotions
Advisor
Thibault PorssutPresented 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)
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 have been 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 was 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 President ad interim from January to 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.
Publications
Infoscience publications
Check also my account on Research Gate
Reaching articular limits can negatively impact embodiment in virtual reality
Plos One. 2022-03-02. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0255554.A review of cybersickness in head‐mounted displays: raising attention to individual susceptibility
Springer Virtual reality. 2022-02-07. DOI : 10.1007/s10055-022-00638-2.On the Importance of Providing a Tangible Haptic Response for Training Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Virtual Reality
2021-12-01. ICAT-EGVE 2020 - International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence and Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments, Orlando, USA, December 2-4, 2020. p. 17-25. DOI : 10.2312/egve.20201255.Adapting Virtual Embodiment through Reinforcement Learning
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 2021. DOI : 10.1109/TVCG.2021.3057797.Does scaling player size skew one’s ability to correctly evaluate object sizes in a virtual environment?
2020-10-16. MIG '20: Motion, Interaction and Games, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, October 16-18, 2020. p. 1-6. DOI : 10.1145/3424636.3426908.Eye Thought You Were Sick! Exploring Eye Behaviors for Cybersickness Detection in VR
2020-10-16. The 13th Annual ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, October 16-18, 2020. DOI : 10.1145/3424636.3426906.Towards Designing Games for Experimental Protocols Investigating Human-Based Phenomena
2020-09-15. The ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on the Foudations of Digital Games, Buggiba, Malta, September 15-18, 2020. p. 1-11. DOI : 10.1145/3402942.3403012.One the effect of the Vertical Axis Alignment on Cybersickness and Game Experience in Supine Posture
2020-08-31. IEEE Conference on Games (CoG) 2020, ELECTR NETWORK, August 24-27, 2020. p. 359-366. DOI : 10.1109/CoG47356.2020.9231830.Exploring Blink-Rate Behaviors for Cybersickness Detection in VR
2020-05-11. The IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, March 22-26, 2020. DOI : 10.1109/VRW50115.2020.00248.A Too to Design Interactive Characters Based on Embodied Cognition
Ieee Transactions On Games. 2019-12-01. DOI : 10.1109/TCIAIG.2017.2755699.Reconciling Being in-Control vs. Being Helped for the Execution of Complex Movements in VR
2019-03-23. IEEE VR - The 26th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, Osaka, Japan, march 23-27, 2019. DOI : 10.1109/VR.2019.8797716.Real-time neural network prediction for handling two-hands mutual occlusions
Computers & Graphics:. 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.cagx.2019.100011.On the Influence of the Supine Posture on Simulation Sickness in Virtual Reality
2019. IEEE Conference on Games 2019, London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom, August 20-23, 2019. DOI : 10.1109/CIG.2019.8848098.Self-attribution of distorted reaching movements in immersive virtual reality
Computers & Graphics. 2018-10-15. DOI : 10.1016/j.cag.2018.09.001.The Critical Role of Self-Contact for Embodiment in Virtual Reality
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 2018-04-01. DOI : 10.1109/TVCG.2018.2794658.Egocentric Mapping of Body Surface Constraints
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 2018. DOI : 10.1109/TVCG.2017.2708083.Characterizing first and third person viewpoints and their alternation for embodied interaction in virtual reality
PLoS One. 2017. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0190109.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.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.Evaluating the Sensitivity to Virtual Characters Facial Asymmetry in Emotion Synthesis
Applied Artificial Intelligence. 2017. DOI : 10.1080/08839514.2017.1299983.Embodiment Sensitivity to Movement Distortion and Perspective Taking in Virtual Reality
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7180.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.Artist-Oriented 3D Character Posing from 2D Strokes
Computers & Graphics. 2016. DOI : 10.1016/j.cag.2016.03.008.Parallel Inverse Kinematics for Multithreaded Architectures
ACM Transactions on Graphics. 2016. DOI : 10.1145/2887740.Precise and Responsive Performance Animation for Embodied Immersive Interactions
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6789.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. p. 125-128. DOI : 10.1145/2821592.2821603.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. p. 67-72. DOI : 10.1109/3DUI.2015.7131728.Latent motion spaces for full-body motion editing
Vis Comput. 2013. DOI : 10.1007/s00371-012-0678-z.Towards a Disambiguation Canvas
2013. 20th IEEE Virtual Reality Conference (VR), Orlando, FL, MAR 16-23, 2013. p. 113-114. DOI : 10.1109/VR.2013.6549388.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.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.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.Asymmetric facial expressions: revealing richer emotions for embodied conversational agents
Computer Animation And Virtual Worlds. 2013. DOI : 10.1002/cav.1539.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.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.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.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.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.Immersive singularity-free full-body interactions with reduced marker set
Computer Animation And Virtual Worlds. 2011. DOI : 10.1002/cav.378.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.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.Penetration Depth Method-Novel Real-Time Strategy for Evaluating Femoroacetabular Impingement
Journal Of Orthopaedic Research. 2010. DOI : 10.1002/jor.21076.Motion Synergies for Real-Time Postural Control in Virtual Environments
Lausanne, EPFL, 2010. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-4637.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.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.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.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.Avatar et Humain Virtuel Interactif
Le traité de la réalité virtuelle; Paris: Presses de l'Ecole des Mines de Paris, 2009.Characterizing full-body reach duration across task and viewpoint modalities
Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting. 2009. DOI : 10.20385/1860-2037/5.2008.15.Full-Body Avatar Control with Environment Awareness
Ieee Computer Graphics And Applications. 2009. DOI : 10.1109/MCG.2009.42.On scaling strategies for the full-body postural control of virtual mannequins
Interacting With Computers. 2009. DOI : 10.1016/j.intcom.2008.10.002.A subject-specific software solution for the modeling and the visualization of muscles deformations
Visual Computer. 2009. DOI : 10.1007/s00371-009-0313-9.Motion constraint
Visual Computer. 2009. DOI : 10.1007/s00371-009-0336-2.Data-driven constraint-based motion editing
Lausanne, EPFL, 2009. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-4558.Fast collision detection methods for joint surfaces
Journal of Biomechanics. 2009. DOI : 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2008.10.017.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_18.Real-Time Joint Coupling of the Spine for Inverse Kinematics
Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting. 2008. DOI : 10.20385/1860-2037/5.2008.11.Full-body performance animation with Sequential Inverse Kinematics
Graphical Models. 2008. DOI : 10.1016/j.gmod.2008.03.002.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.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.Virtual Human Animation
Crowd Simulation; Springer, 2007.Efficient Collision Detection within Deforming Spherical Sliding Contact
IEEE Transactions in Visualization and Computer Graphics. 2007. DOI : 10.1109/TVCG.2007.1016.Interactive Low-Dimensional Human Motion Synthesis by Combining Motion Models and PIK
Computer Animation & Virtual Worlds. 2007. DOI : 10.1002/cav.210.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. p. 5079-5082. DOI : 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353482.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.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.Progressive Clamping
2007. ICRA07. p. 4414-4419. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.364159.Exploiting Coupled Joints
2007. Conference of GRAPP'07, Barcelona, Spain.Simulating Reactive/Passive Postures by means of a Human Active Torque hybrid Optimization
2007. Conference of GRAPP07, Barcelona, Spain.Dynamic Obstacle Clearing for Real-time Character Animation
The Visual Computer. 2006. DOI : 10.1007/s00371-006-0017-3.Modèles pour les Humanoïdes
Traité de Réalité Virtuelle; Presses de l’Ecoles des Mines de Paris, 2006.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.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.Robust Kinematic Constraint Detection for Motion Data
2006. ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, Vienna, Austria, September 2006. p. 281–290.Robust on-line adaptive footplant detection and enforcement for locomotion
Visual Computer. 2006. DOI : 10.1007/s00371-006-0376-9.Interactive motion deformation with prioritized constraints
Graphical Models. 2006. DOI : 10.1016/j.gmod.2005.03.001.Interactive techniques for motion deformation of articulated figures using prioritized constraints
Lausanne, EPFL, 2006. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-3459.Stress Distribution Visualization on Pre- and Post-Operative Virtual Hip Joint
2005. Computer Aided Orthopedic Surgery 2005, Helsinki, Finland, 2005. p. 298-301.Progressive Cartesian Inequality Constraints for the Inverse Kinematics Control of Articulated Chains
2005. Eurographics, Short Presentation session.An Intuitive IK Postural Control System for Anthropometric Digital Human Models
2005. 11th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia.Challenges in exploiting prioritized inverse kinematics for motion capture and postural control
2005. 6th International Gesture Workshop, GW 2005, Berder Island, France, 2005. p. 176-187. DOI : 10.1007/11678816_21.Proactive Steering Toward Oriented Targets
2005.On-line adapted transition between locomotion and jump
2005. Computer Graphics International 2005, Stony Brook, NY, USA, 2005. p. 44-50. DOI : 10.1109/CGI.2005.1500367.Spreadsheet Framework for Visual Exploration of Biomedical Datasets
2005. 18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, Dublin, Ireland, June 23-24, 2005. p. 159-164. DOI : 10.1109/CBMS.2005.19.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.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.Standards for Virtual Human Animation: H-ANIM and MPEG4
Handbook of Virtual Humans; John Wiley, 2004.Computer Animation Techniques
Handbook of Virtual Humans; John Wiley, 2004.A Generic Method for Geometric Contraints Detection
2004. Eurographics, Grenoble, France, 30 August - 3 September, 2004.Towards Configurable Motion Capture with Prioritized Inverse Kinematics
2004. Third International Workshop on Virtual Rehabilitation (IWVR2004), Lausanne, Switzerland, 16-17 Septembre. p. 85-96.Multi-Finger Haptic Rendering of Deformable Objects
2004. Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium, Grenoble, France. p. 105-111.Interactive Motion Deformation with Prioritized Constraints
2004. ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2004. p. 163–11. DOI : 10.1145/1028523.1028545.A Coherent Locomotion Engine Extrapolating Beyond Experimental Data
2004. Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA), Geneva, Switzerland, 2204. p. 73-84.Motion Blending: Illustration with Cyclic and Episodic Patterns
2004. CAPTECH Workshop, Zermatt, Switzerland, December, 2004.Versatile Walk Engine, Journal Of Game Development
Journal of Game Development. 2004.An inverse kinematics architecture enforcing an arbitrary number of strict priority levels
Visual Computer. 2004. DOI : 10.1007/s00371-004-0244-4.PCA-based walking engine using motion capture data
2004. Computer Graphics International, 2004, Crete, Greece, 2004.Style-based Motion Synthesis
Computer Graphics Forum. 2004. DOI : 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2004.00809.x.Approximating Human Reaching Volumes using Inverse Kinematics
2003. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Karlsruhe & Munich, Germany. p. 81-88.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.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. DOI : 10.1016/S1474-6670(17)33507-3.Integrating Age Attributes to Virtual Human Locomotion
International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. 2003.From Measurements to Model: the Walk Engine
2003. 6th Conference on Optical 3D measurement Techniques, Zurich, Switzerland, 2003.Motion Editing with Prioritized Constraints
2003. 1st International Workshop on Interactive Rich Media Content Production - Architectures, Technologies, Lausanne, Switzerland, 16-17 October, 2003.Experimenting Prioritized IK for Motion Editing
2003. Annual Conference of the European association for Computer Graphics, Granada, Spain, 1-6 September.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.Deformable tissue parameterized by properties of real biological tissue
2003. International Symposium, IS4TM 2003, Juan-Les-Pins, France, June 12–13, 2003. p. 74-87. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-45015-7_8.Visualizing human fatigue at joint level with the half-joint pair concept
2003. p. 37-45. DOI : 10.1117/12.473943.Bringing the human arm reachable space to a virtual environment for its analysis
2003. p. 229-232. DOI : 10.1109/ICME.2003.1220896.Reaching volumes generated by means of octal trees and Cartesian constraints
2003. DOI : 10.1109/CGI.2003.1214490.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.Cinématique Inverse pour Personnage en 3D, Solutions analytiques et variationnelles
Journal de CFAO. 2001.Parametrization and range of motion of the ball-and-socket joint
Deformable Avatars; Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. p. 180-190.Using skeleton-based tracking to increase the reliability of optical motion capture
Human Movement Science. 2001. DOI : 10.1016/S0167-9457(01)00050-1.Inverse kinematics techniques of the interactive posture control of articulated figures
Lausanne, EPFL, 2001. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-2383.Using an Intermediate Skeleton and Inverse Kinematics for Motion Retargeting
Computer Graphics Forum. 2000. DOI : 10.1111/1467-8659.00393.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.Kinematic control of the mass properties of redundant articulated bodies
2000. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2000.846413.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. DOI : 10.1007/10722604_12.Versatile tuning of humanoid agent activity
Computer Graphics Forum. 2000. DOI : 10.1111/1467-8659.00460.A paradigm for controlling virtual humans in urban environment simulations
Applied Artificial Intelligence. 2000. DOI : 10.1080/088395100117160.Skeleton-based motion capture for robust reconstruction of human motion
2000. Computer Animation, Philadelphia, PA, USA. DOI : 10.1109/CA.2000.889046.Using an intermediate skeleton and inverse kinematics for motion retargeting
2000. Eurographics 2000, Interlaken, Switzerland, 20-25 August 2000. p. 11-19.Human Shape and Motion Recovery Using Animation Models
2000.Motion Editing Using Multiresolution Filtering
1999. Multimedia Modeling Conference , Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 4-8 Octobre, 1999.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.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.An efficient and flexible perception pipeline for autonomous agents
1999. Computer Graphics Forum, Milan, Italy. p. 23-29. DOI : 10.1111/1467-8659.00324.Conferring human action recognition skills to life-like agents
Applied Artificial Intelligence Journal. 1999. DOI : 10.1080/088395199117379.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.An Informed Environment dedicated to the simulation of virtual humans in urban context
1999. p. 309-17.An architecture for immersive evaluation of complex human tasks
IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation. 1999. DOI : 10.1109/70.768180.Human motion capture driven by orientation measurements
Presence. 1999. DOI : 10.1162/105474699566161.An Anatomic Human Body For Motion Capture
1998.One Step Towards Virtual Human Management for Urban Environment Simulation
1998. Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces, Brighton, UK., 23-28 August.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.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.Interacting with virtual humans through body actions
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 1998. DOI : 10.1109/38.637261.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. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-49384-0_3.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. p. 494–495. DOI : 10.1145/267658.267788.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. 306-319.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.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.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.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.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.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.An animation interface designed for motion capture
1997. Conference on Computer Animation '97, Geneva, Switzerland. DOI : 10.1109/CA.1997.601044.Computer Animation and Simulation 96
Springer Verlag, Wien.Hierarchical Kinematics Behaviors for Complex Articulated Figures
Interactive Computer Animation; Prentice Hall, 1996. p. 40-70.A Robust Motion Signature for the Analysis of Knee Trajectories
1996. Fourth International Symposium on 3-D Analysis of Human Movement, June, 1996.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.Multi-finger manipulation of virtual objects
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Teaching
Computer Science
Communication Systems
PhD Programs
Doctoral program in computer and communication sciences
Doctoral program in robotics, control, and intelligent systems
Doctoral Program Digital Humanities
PhD Students
Boban Loën, Delahaye Mathias Guy, Tian Nana,Past EPFL PhD Students
Baerlocher Paolo , Galvan Debarba Henrique , Le Callennec Benoît , Molla Eray , Porssut Thibault Serge Mario , Raunhardt Daniel , Ribeiro de Carvalho Schubert ,Courses
Project oriented programming
This course focuses on the complementary features of the C language that allow to design robust modular applications (principle of separation of concerns). The practice dimension is deemed particularly important ; for this reason a significant time is devoted to a project.
Information, Computation, Communication
The goal is this course is to introduce students to computational thinking, to present fondamental ideas of computer science and to develop their first programming skills (C language).