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PM2.5 Monitoring: Use Information Abundance Measurement and Wide and Deep Learning

Daniel Thalmann

This article devises a photograph-based monitoring model to estimate the real-time PM2.5 concentrations, overcoming currently popular electrochemical sensor-based PM2.5 monitoring methods' shortcomings such as low-density spatial distribution and time dela ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Stepping into virtual reality

Daniel Thalmann

The 2nd edition of this book provides an updated and extended look into the advancements in Virtual Reality and the metaverse. The history and origins of Virtual Reality, crowd simulation and virtual surgery are thoroughly explored. Applications in the cul ...

Springer Nature2023

Learning a Unified Blind Image Quality Metric via On-Line and Off-Line Big Training Instances

Daniel Thalmann

In this work, we resolve a big challenge that most current image quality metrics (IQMs) are unavailable across different image contents, especially simultaneously coping with natural scene (NS) images or screen content (SC) images. By comparison with exist ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

From Sentence to Emotion: a real-time 3D graphics metaphor of emotions extracted from text

Daniel Thalmann, Stéphane Gobron, Junghyun Ahn

This paper presents a novel concept: a graphical representation of human emotion extracted from text sentences. The major contributions of this paper are the following. First, we present a pipeline that extracts, processes, and renders emotion of 3D virtua ...

Springer-Verlag2010

Penetration Depth Method-Novel Real-Time Strategy for Evaluating Femoroacetabular Impingement

Daniel Thalmann, Ronan Boulic

We introduce a new method for computerized real-time evaluation of femoroacetabular impingement (FM). In contrast to previously presented stress analyses, this method is based on two types of predictions of penetration depths for two rotating bodies: curvi ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010

Evaluation of a geometry-based knee joint compared to a planar knee joint

Daniel Thalmann, Anders Sandholm

Today neuromuscular simulations are used in several fields, such as diagnostics and planing of surgery, to get a deeper understanding of the musculoskeletal system. During the last year, new models and datasets have been presented which can provide us with ...

Springer-Verlag2011

Acquiring, structuring shapes and annotating them with semantics to improve design activities

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo

Shapes incorporate geometry as well as semantics and can be defined in 2D, 3D or higher dimensions. Geometric models can be structured in such a way that they can provide a relevant framework to insert semantic information or view dependent information abo ...

2005

Virtual humans: thirty years of research, what next?

Daniel Thalmann

In this paper, we present research results and future challenges in creating realistic and believable virtual humans. To realize these modeling goals, real-time realistic representation is essential, but we also need interactive and perceptive virtual huma ...

Springer-Verlag2005

Context aware, multimodal, and semantic rendering engine

Daniel Thalmann, Patrick Salamin

Nowadays, several techniques exist to render digital content such as graphics, audio, haptic, etc. Unfortunately, they require different faculties that cannot always be applied, e.g. providing a picture to a blind person would be useless. In this paper, we ...

2009

Using physiological measures for emotional assessment: A computer-aided tool for cognitive and behavioral therapy

Daniel Thalmann, Bruno Herbelin, Olivier Renault

In the context of cognitive and behavioural therapies, the use of immersion technologies to replace classical exposure often improves the therapeutic process. As it is necessary to validate the efficiency of such a technique, both therapists and VR special ...

2005

Mixing virtual and real scenes in the site of ancient Pompeii

Daniel Thalmann, Sébastien Schertenleib

This paper presents an innovative 3D reconstruction of ancient fresco paintings through the real-time revival of their fauna and flora, featuring groups of virtual animated characters with artificial-life dramaturgical behaviours in an immersive, fully mob ...

Wiley2005

Virtual Safety Assistant: An Efficient Tool for Ensuring Safety During Covid-19 Pandemic

Daniel Thalmann

Using intelligent virtual assistants for controlling employee population in workspaces is a research area that remains unexplored. This paper presents a novel application of virtual humans to enforce Covid-19 safety measures in a corporate workplace. For t ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022

Fast 3D Modeling of Prosthetic Robotic Hands Based on a Multi-Layer Deformable Design

Daniel Thalmann

Current research of designing prosthetic robotic hands mainly focuses on improving their functionality by devising new mechanical structures and actuation systems. Most of existing work relies on a single structure/system (e.g., bone-only or tissue-only) a ...

WHIOCE PUBLISHING PTE LTD, SINGAPORE2022

Conveying Real-Time Ambivalent Feelings through Asymmetric Facial Expressions

Daniel Thalmann, Ronan Boulic, Stéphane Gobron, Junghyun Ahn

Achieving effective facial emotional expressivity within a real-time rendering constraint requests to leverage on all possible inspiration sources and especially from the observations of real individuals. One of them is the frequent asymmetry of facial exp ...

Springer Berlin Heidelberg2012

Advanced virtual reality technologies for surveillance and security applications

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo

We present a system that exploits advanced Virtual Reality technologies to create a surveillance and security system. Surveillance cameras are carried by a mini Blimp which is tele-operated using an innovative Virtual Reality interface with haptic feedback ...

2006

The Mental Vision framework - A platform for teaching, practicing and researching with computer graphics and virtual reality

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo, Achille Peternier

Despite the wide amount of computer graphics frameworks and solutions available, it is still difficult to find a perfect one fitting at the same time many constraints, like pedagogical intents and user-friendliness or speed with high rendering quality and ...

Springer-Verlag New York, Ms Ingrid Cunningham, 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2008

Building exposure: synergy of interaction and narration through the social channel

Daniel Thalmann, Bruno Herbelin, Michal Ponder

The ability to build and control exposure through a seamless synergy of interaction and narration is a strongly required feature of a new type of immersive-VR training and therapy system. This paper presents a practical approach for immersive-VR training a ...

MIT Press2005

Hough Forest With Optimized Leaves for Global Hand Pose Estimation With Arbitrary Postures

Daniel Thalmann, Hui Liang

Vision-based hand pose estimation is important in human-computer interaction. While many recent works focus on full degree-of-freedom hand pose estimation, robust estimation of global hand pose remains a challenging problem. This paper presents a novel alg ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Real-time navigating crowds: Scalable simulation and rendering

Daniel Thalmann, Jonathan Maim, Barbara Yersin

This paper introduces a framework for real-time simulation and rendering of crowds navigating in a virtual environment. The solution first consists in a specific environment preprocessing technique giving rise to navigation graphs, which are then used by t ...

John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, United Kingdom2006

Advanced Mixed Reality Technologies for Surveillance and Risk Prevention Applications

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo, Patrick Salamin

We present a system that exploits advanced Mixed and Virtual Reality technologies to create a surveillance and security system that could be also extended to define emergency prevention plans in crowdy environments. Surveillance cameras are carried by a mi ...

2006