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Prof.
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
MIRALab -
University
of
Geneva
24
Rue Général Dufour
CH-1211
Geneve-4
Switzerland
www.miralab.unige.ch
T.: +41 (0)22 705 7769
Fax: +41 (0)22 705 7780
nadia.thalmann@miralab.unige.ch
MIRALab was created by Professor
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann in 1989. The group is an assembly of many different
people from many different countries and academic backgrounds: from computer
science to electrical engineering, from physics to architecture, from networking
to design and many more besides. When the laboratory was first formed, the main
goal was to model and animate 3D virtual humans, creating the basic underlying
structures. The laboratory produces numerous papers per year, it has hosted many
conferences.
MIRALab has
actively participated in many EU projects since its first in 1995, called
HUMANOID. Projects have been centered on many different areas of research,
several of which are on medical and health care related. In CHARM
and MIAS,
MIRALab contributed in the anatomical modeling, functional simulations and
visualization of human upper limb. In TREMOR,
JUST and DRAMA,
MIRALab participated in elaborating VR based tools, to provide advanced support
for continuous education, rehabilitation and training.
Currently, within a
competence network, MIRALab is involved in the Swiss national project COME
where the global objective consists in understanding and visualizing the
functionalities of human articulations and in simulating them in motion. Medical
doctors will benefit from this technology, as they will be able to visualize and
interact with a 3D functional model of articulations, observe their motion, and
make different experiments on them. At a long term they will be able to diagnose
possible problems for a given articulation.
Participants
CVs
1. Prof Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
Nadia
Magnenat-Thalmann has pioneered research into virtual humans over the last 20
years. She studied at the
University
of
Geneva
and obtained several degrees including Psychology, Biology, Chemistry, and a
PhD in Quantum Physics at the
University
of
Geneva
in 1977. From 1977 to 1989, she was a Professor at the
University
of
Montreal
in
Canada
. In 1989, she founded MIRALab, an interdisciplinary creative research
laboratory at the
University
of
Geneva
. She has published more than 200 papers, is editor-in-chief of the Visual
Computer and the Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation journal. She
has received several awards and recently, she has been nominated at the
Swiss
Academy
of Technical Sciences.
2.
Dr Laurent Moccozet
Dr.
Laurent Moccozet is a computer
scientist. He is currently working at the
University
of
Geneva
as Maître d'Enseignement et de Recherche (MER). His main areas of interests
are geometric modeling, geometric deformations and their application to human
modeling and simulation. He has completed his PhD in October 1996: Hand
Modeling and Animation for Virtual Humans. This work was part of the
HUMANOID I and II European projects in "interaction in 3D modeling"
and "deformation of the body while in motion". Since July 2001, he has
been involved in COME project for anatomical and functional modeling of human
articulations.
3.
Dr Tom Molet
Dr. Tom Molet is a
post-doctoral assistant at MIRALab,
University
of
Geneva
. He received his PhD in Computer Science in November 1998 at the Computer
Graphics Lab, EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology): “Human motion
capture study for interaction in virtual environments ". His main research
interests are Virtual Human Modeling, Animation and Virtual Reality, more
specifically Human Motion Capture and Performance Animation. He is also involved
in COME project for using optical motion capture to study joints kinematics.
4.
Chris Joslin
Chris Joslin
obtained his Masters degree in Electronic and Communication Engineering from the
University of Bath (UK) in 1997. He is currently working on 3D spatial audio for
real-time virtual environments. His interests include virtual reality, spatial
audio, networking for collaborative virtual environments, parallel processing
algorithms/scheduling, video/audio compression, and video processing. He is
currently a PhD candidate and research assistant at MIRALab,
university
of
Geneva
.
Publications:
[MIRA1] M.J. Kang, H. Sadri, L. Moccozet, N. Magnenat-Thalmann: Hip Joint
Modelling for the Control of the Joint Center and the Range of Motions, IFAC
Symposium on Modelling and Control in Biomedical Systems, Australia, Elsevier
Science 2003 (to appear).
[MIRA2]
L. Yahia Cherif, B. Gilles, L. Moccozet, N. Magnenat-Thalmann: Individualized
Bone Modelling from MRI: Application to the Human Hip. Computer Assisted
Radiology and Surgery (CARS).London. UK. Elsevier Science 2003 (to appear).
[MIRA3] M.J. Kang, H. Sadri, L. Moccozet, N. Magnenat-Thalmann, Pierre
Hoffmeyer: Accurate
simulation of hip joint range of motion, Proc. of IEEE Computer Animation
2002 pp. 215-219.
[MIRA4] N.
Magnenat-Thalmann, M.J.Kang, T.Goto: Problems
and solutions for the accurate 3D functional modelling of the hip and shoulder,
Proc. of IEEE Computer Graphics International 2002.
[MIRA5]
M. Ponder, B. Herbelin, T. Molet, S. Scherteneib, B. Ulicny, N.
Magnenat-Thalmann, D. Thalmann: Interactive
Scenario Immersion: Health Emergency Decision Training in JUST Project,
VRMHR2002 Conference Proceedings, November, 2002.
[MIRA6]
N. Magnenat-Thalmann, P.Kalra, J-L.
Lévêque, R. Bazin, D. Batisse and B. Querleux: A computational skin model:
fold and wrinkle formation, IEEE Transactions on information technology in
biomedecine, 6:4(317-323), Dec 2002.
[MIRA7]
N. Ayache, J. S. Duncan, S. F.F. Gibson, E. Grimson, R. Kikinis, N.
Magnenat-Thalmann, D. N. Metaxas: Modeling for Medical Applications, SIGGRAPH
Course, SIGGRAPH Course Notes, SIGGRAPH'2000, 2000.
[MIRA8]
N. Magnenat-Thalmann, F. Cordier:
Construction of a Human Topological Model from Medical Data,
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedecine, Volume 04, Number
02, p137, June, 2000.
[MIRA9]
N. Ayache, J. S. Duncan, S. F.F. Gibson, E. Grimson, R. Kikinis, N.
Magnenat-Thalmann, D. N. Metaxas: Modeling Techniques for Medical Applications,
SIGGRAPH course, SIGGRAPH Course Notes, SIGGRAPH'99, 1999.
[MIRA10]
W. Lee, Y.Wu, N.Magnenat-Thalmann: Cloning
and Aging in a VR Family, Proc. IEEE VR'99 (Virtual
Reality), Houston, Texas
,
March 13-17, 1999.
[MIRA11]
F. Cordier, N.Magnenat-Thalmann: Comparison
of two techniques for organ reconstruction using Visible Human Dataset,
The Visible Human Project Conference, Oct.7-8, 1998, Bethesda
,
Maryland ,
USA
,
1998.
[MIRA12]
W. Maurel, Y.WU, N.Thalmann, D. Thalmann: Biomechanical Models for Soft Tissue
Simulation. Esprit Series,
Springer Verlag, 1998.
[MIRA13]
P. Beylot, P.Gingins, P.Kalra, N.Magnenat-Thalmann, W.Maurel, D.Thalmann, J.
Fasel: 3D
Interactive Topological Modelling using Visible Human Dataset,
Proc. Eurographics '96, Computer Graphics Forum, Vol.15, No.3, pp.C-33: C-44,
1996.
[MIRA14]
P.Gingins, P. Beylot, P.Kalra, N.Magnenat-Thalmann, W.Maurel, D.Thalmann, J.
Fasel: Modeling
using the Visible Human Dataset, Proc. Medical Informatics
Europe, IOS Press, 1996, pp.739 743, 1996.
[MIRA15]
P. Gingins, P. Kalra, P. Beylot, N. Magnenat Thalmann, J. Fasel: Using
VHD to Build a Comprehensive Human Model, The Visible Human Project
Conference, Oct.7-8, 1996, Bethesda , Maryland ,
USA ,
1996.
[MIRA16]
W. Maurel, D. Thalmann, P.Hoffmeyer, P. Beylot, P. Gingins, P. Kalra, N.
Magnenat Thalmann: A
Biomechanical Musculoskeletal Model of Human Upper Limb for Dynamic Simulation,
Proc. 7th Eurographics International Workshop on Computer Animation and
Simulation, 121-136, Aug 31-Sept 1, Poitiers, France,1996.
[MIRA17]
P. Kalra , P. Beylot, P. Gingins, N. Magnenat-Thalmann, P. Volino, P. Hoffmeyer,
J. Fasel, F. Terrier: Topological
Modeling of Human Anatomy Using Medical Data, Proc. Computer Animation `95,
IEEE Computer Society, 172-180, 1995.
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