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Real-Time Scalable Motion Planning for Crowds

Daniel Thalmann, Barbara Yersin, Jonathan Maim, Fiorenzo Morini

Real-time crowd motion planning requires fast, realistic methods for path planning as well as obstacle avoidance. The difﬁculty to ﬁnd a satisfying trade-off between efﬁciency and believability is particularly challenging, and prior techniques tend to focu ...

2007

Visualization Learning for Visually Impaired People

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo, Patrick Salamin

Virtual Environments (VE) are mainly visual experiments that exclude visually impaired people. In this paper we present an application that should allow almost everybody to ``see'' or at least to perceive 3D shapes. We will first describe the mandatory asp ...

2007

Practical Design and Implementation of a CAVE Environment

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo, Achille Peternier, Sylvain Cardin

CAVE systems are nowadays one of the best Virtual Reality (VR) immersive devices available for rendering virtual environments. Unfortunately, such kind of hardware is extremely expensive, complex and cum-bersome, thus limited in its spread. Several cheaper ...

2007

Crowds of Moving Objects: Navigation Planning and Simulation

Daniel Thalmann, Helena Stephanie Grillon Le Gallennec

This paper presents a solution to interactive navigation planning and real-time simulation of a very large number of entities moving in a virtual environment. From the environment geometry analysis, we deduce a structure called navigation graph, which is t ...

2007

Eye-tracking as Diagnosis and Assessment Tool for Social Phobia

Daniel Thalmann, Helena Stephanie Grillon Le Gallennec

In this study, we evaluate the usability of an eyetracking system as a diagnosis and assessment tool for visual avoidance behaviors in the context of social anxiety disorders. We conducted this study over five social phobic patients and five non phobic peo ...

2007

Accurate On-line Avatar Control with Collision Anticipation

Ronan Boulic, Daniel Thalmann, Manuel Peinado, Damien Maupu, Daniel Raunhardt

Interactive control of a virtual character through full body movement has a wide range of applications. However, there is a need for systems that accurately reproduce the motion of a performer while accounting for surrounding obstacles. We propose an appro ...

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Haptic Feedback in Mixed-Reality Environment

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo, Renaud Ott

2007

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Springer, Springer-Verlag2007

Emotional face expression profiles supported by virtual human ontology

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo, Alejandra Garcia Rojas Martinez

Expressive facial animation synthesis of human like characters has had many approaches with good results. MPEG-4 standard has functioned as the basis of many of those approaches. In this paper we would like to lay out the knowledge of some of those approac ...

2006

Virtual Reality as Therapeutic Tool in the Confines of Social Anxiety Disorder Treatment

Daniel Thalmann, Bruno Herbelin, Helena Stephanie Grillon Le Gallennec

In this paper, we present a study, conducted over 8 social phobic subjects, whose aim is to evaluate the efficiency and flexibility of virtual reality as a therapeutic tool in the confines of a social phobia behavioural therapeutic program. Our research pr ...

2006

Advanced Mixed Reality Technologies for Surveillance and Risk Prevention Applications

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo, Patrick Salamin, Renaud Ott

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

Comfortable manipulation of a virtual gearshift prototype with haptic feedback

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo, Patrick Salamin

Improving quality, design and comfort is very important for high technology companies in order to stay competitive against the other enterprises. A present problem is that the new physical dedicated prototypes they need to create for the tests are very exp ...

2006

Wearable Mixed Reality System In Less Than 1 Pound

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo, Achille Peternier

We have designed a wearable Mixed Reality (MR) framework which allows to real-time render game-like 3D scenes on see-through head-mounted displays (see through HMDs) and to localize the user position within aknown internet wireless area. Our equipment weig ...

2006

Mental vision: a computer graphics teaching platform

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo, Achille Peternier

We have developed a learning platform to simplify and improve teaching and practice of computer graphics for beginners and advanced students. Our goal is to offer a set of tools to help students having a better mental vision of the abstract notions introdu ...

2006

Advanced virtual reality technologies for surveillance and security applications

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo, Renaud Ott

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

Standardized Virtual Reality, are we there yet ?

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo

Despite its history of several decades and impressive achievements, developing a VR application is still a complex task. Setting-up a Virtual Environment requires choosing a suitable combination of elements from a large amount of technologies, software fra ...

2006

The Benefits of Third-Person Perspective in Virtual and Augmented Reality?

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo, Patrick Salamin

Instead of the reality in which you can see your own limbs, in virtual reality simulations it is sometimes disturbing not to be able to see your own body. It seems to create an issue in the proprioperception of the user who does not completely feel integra ...

2006

Use of Virtual Reality as Therapeutic Tool for Behavioral Exposure in the Ambit of Social Anxiety Disorder Treatment

Daniel Thalmann, Bruno Herbelin, Helena Stephanie Grillon Le Gallennec

We hereby present a study whose aim is to evaluate the efficiency and flexibility of virtual reality as a therapeutic tool in the confines of a social phobia behavioural therapeutic program. Our research protocol, accepted by the ethical commission of the ...

2006

In Search for your own Virtual Individual

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo, Alejandra Garcia Rojas Martinez

The use of inhabited Virtual Environments is continuously growing. People can embody a human-like avatar to participate inside these Virtual Environments or they can have personalized character acting as mediator; sometimes they can even customize it to so ...

Springer2006

Populating virtual environments with crowds

Daniel Thalmann

2006

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