Congratulations Simon!
Simon Hilt successfully defended his PhD entitled “Biofaithful Haptics for Virtual Reality interaction” on December 4th 2020!
Congratulations Amaury!
Amaury Louarn successfully defended his PhD entitled “A Topological Approach to Virtual Cinematography” on November 23th 2020! He will soon leaves and a start an engineer position in Vancouver, Canada.
Congratulations Rebecca!
Rebecca Fribourg successfully defended her PhD entitled “Contribution to the Study of Factors Influencing the Sense of Embodiment Towards Avatars in Virtual Reality” on November 4th 2020! She will soon join Trinity College Dublin and join Rachel McDonnell’s team.
3 Papers accepted to SAP 2020
3 papers: -Walk this way: Evaluating the effect of perceived gender and attractiveness of motion on proximity in virtual reality. -The impact of stylization on face recognition -Walk Ratio: Perception of an Invariant Parameter of Human Walk on Virtual Characters have been accepted at SAP 2020 and will be presented…
IEEE VR 2020: TVCG Best Journal Papers Award
Congratulations to our PhD student Rebecca Fribourg for her TVCG Best Journal Papers Award at IEEE VR this year, for her work “Avatar and Sense of Embodiment: Studying the Relative Preference Between Appearance, Control and Point of View” You can find the article here: Avatar and Sense of Embodiment: Studying…
Workshop: “Walkers behaviour: from analysis to applications”
In the frame of the Inria associate team BEAR, we are organizing the workshop “Walkers behaviour: from analysis to applications” that will be held the 25th of June. Full program available: Walkers behaviour: from analysis to applications
A paper accepted at SIGGRAPH 2020
Our paper Example-driven Virtual Cinematography by Learning Camera Behaviors, a result of our ongoing collaboration with Beijing Film Academy, has been accepted at SIGGRAPH 2020! The PDF is available here and a dedicated web page with more information here
EUR DigiSport starting in 2020
Members of the MimeTIC team / M2S laboratory carried out a PIA3 EUR (Ecole Universitaire de Recherche) project (DIGISPORT project) for the University of Rennes, which brings together the universities and Grandes Ecoles of the Rennes site. This project, with a total budget of ¤86 million, is funded by the…
Kimea Cloud project with start-up Moovency and Quortex granted by Region Bretagne
The Region Bretagne with “Image & Réseaux” national clusters have granted the project “Kimea Cloud”. This project leaded by Moovency (moovency.com/) aims at proposing a new system to asses painful movement at work using ligth devices, such as a simple camera. Quortex (www.quortex.io/) company will provide its expertise in delivering…
Start-up “Moovency” created November 5th.
Franck Multon and Pierre Plantard are co-founder of “Moovency” start-up company, based on the PhD results of Pierre Plantard (defended July 2016) in collaboration with Faurecia company (1st car industry sub-contractor). Moovency aims at developping systems to assess the risk of musculoskeletal disorders at work, using a depth sensor technology…
