Manon Vialle
I am a third year PhD student working on choreographic style transfer under the supervision of Rémi Ronfard and Mélina Skouras. I focus on the way to represent dance movement in an abstract way to conveys certain movements qualities such as fluidity. My research is part of the Isadora Living Archive project, a collaboration with ex-situ Inria team, the MocapLab, the Centre National de la Danse (CND) and Elizabeth Schwartz. In this project we aim at creating an interactive archive of Duncan’s Choreography.
My first contribution is the design of a model through a collaboration with an expert Duncanian dancer, using five flexible ribbons joining at the solar plexus and animated it from motion capture data using a tailored optimization-based algorithm.
We display our model in a Hololens headset and provide features that allow to visualize and manipulate it in order to understand and learn Duncan’s choreographic style. Through a series of workshops, we explored our system with professional dancers and were able to observe how it provides them with an immersive experience of a novel visualization of Duncan movement qualities in a way that was not possible with traditional human-like or skeleton-based representations.
Research activities:
- Physical based modeling for animation (Kirchhoff rods)
- Animation in Blender
- Leading dance workshop to test prototypes
- Co-design with an expert in dance
- Implementing VR/AR modules using Unity
Research interests:
- Movement analysis (performance, injuries, qualities)
- Movement modeling
- HCI in the use of new technologies to improve dance and movement performance, understanding and learning
Contact:
email: manon.vialle@inria.fr
Teaching:
2020 – 2022: Geometric Modeling – 2nd Year ENSIMAG
2022 : Algorithms and data structures – 1st Year ENSIMAG
2021 : Basic Numerical Methods – 1st Year ENSIMAG
Resume:
2020 – now: PhD student in computer science – University Grenoble Alpes.
2018 – 2020: Masters of industrial and Applied Mathematics – University Grenoble Alpes – Ensimag
2017 – 2020: Computer science engineering degree – Grenoble INP – UGA Ensimag
Publications:
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Manon Vialle, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Mélina Skouras, Vennila Vilvanathan, Elisabeth Schwartz, and Remi Ronfard. 2022. Visualizing Isadora Duncan’s movements qualities. In Creativity and Cognition (C&C ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 196–207. https://doi.org/10.1145/3527927.3532805 [Paper]
- P. Puteaux, M. Vialle and W. Puech, “Homomorphic Encryption-Based LSB Substitution for High Capacity Data Hiding in the Encrypted Domain,” in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 108655-108663, 2020, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3001385. [Paper]
