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Bringing the human arm reachable space to a virtual environment for its analysis
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Crowds are part of our everyday experience; nevertheless, in virtual worlds they are still relatively rare. In this thesis we explore the challenges of bringing crowds into interactive virtual environments and the possible applications of real-time interac ...
EPFL2005Simulation of nonverbal social interaction and small groups dynamics in virtual environments
How can the behaviour of humans who interact with other humans be simulated in virtual environments? This thesis investigates the issue by proposing a number of dedicated models, computer languages, software architectures, and specifications of computation ...
EPFL2004Speculative planning with delegation
Daniel Thalmann, Tolga Abaci, Jan Ciger
This paper presents a novel method of collaborative problem solving for intelligent agents in virtual environments. We describe a planner for STRIPS-like domains enhanced by techniques of "delegated computing". Instead of having one central planner with co ...
2004Stable Real-Time Interaction Between Virtual Humans and Real Scenes
Daniel Thalmann, Pascal Fua, Vincent Lepetit, Michal Ponder
We present an augmented reality system that relies on purely passive techniques to solve the real-time registration problem. It can run on a portable PC and does not require engineering of the environment, for example by adding markers. To achieve this res ...
IEEE Comput. Soc2003Towards interactive real-time crowd behavior simulation
Daniel Thalmann, Branislav Ulicny
While virtual crowds are becoming common in non-real-time applications, the real-time domain is still relatively unexplored. In this paper we discuss the challenges involved in creating such simulations, especially the need to efficiently manage variety. W ...
Blackwell Publishers for Eurographics Assoc2002Path finding for human motion in virtual environments
This paper presents an efficient and robust technique for generating global motion paths for a human model in virtual environments. Initially, a scene is discretized using raster hardware to generate an environment map. An obstacle-free cell path sub-optim ...
2000Haptic interface control-design issues and experiments with a planar device
Describes the haptic rendering of a virtual environment by drawing upon concepts developed in the area of teleoperation. A four-channel teleoperation architecture is shown to be an effective means of coordinating the control of a 3-DOF haptic interface wit ...
IEEE2000Anyone for tennis?
The authors present a virtual tennis game. They describe the creation and modeling of the virtual humans and body deformations, also showing the real-time animation and rendering aspects of the avatars. They focus on the animation of the virtual tennis bal ...
MIT Press1999Virtual hand interactions with 3D world
Interactions between a virtual actor and its virtual environment involve many aspects. An important one is hand interactions. In a virtual scene depicting everyday life, the actor will need to grasp and hold objects, in such a way that both skeleton motion ...
World Scientific1997