CineCast, the first prototype resulting from the collaboration between INRIA Mimetic and Unity was showed during the Keynote at Unite Los Angeles on Tuesday 23rd 2018. The video was viewed more than 50k times. See the CineCast demo video starting at 41m42 here, with Adam Myhill. More details on our…
Best paper presentation at ACM Siggraph MIG 2018 (Motion, Interaction and Games)
The team’s paper, “Automated Staging for Virtual cinematography” by Amaury Louarn, Marc Christie and Fabrice Lamarche, was presented by Amaury Louarn on November 8th at Motion, Interaction and Games 2018 in Limassol, Cyprus. We were granted the “Best presentation award” by the program committee of MIG. Abstract: While the…
Recruitment for 2-year Starting Research Position
The INRIA Mimetic team has the possibility of funding a 2-year Starting Research Position (SRP) in Rennes, France. The research topic is fully open to all scientific challenges addressed by the Mimetic team: in particular Human motion analysis through the design of innovative protocols to capture and enhance knowledge on…
SolidAnim/INRIA Cineviz Joint Laboratory – Opening Ceremony
University of Rennes 1, Inria, and SolidAnim have organized the Opening Ceremony of their Joint Research Laboratory on May the 2nd, at Ivry-sur-Seine, near Paris. This opening ceremony was held in presence of: Thierry Guillaudeux , Vice-CEO Valorization of University of Rennes1 Eric Horlait , Deputy CEO for transfer and…
M2S Lab at the Technoférence #20
Virtual reality to analyse and train sports interaction: http://www.images-et-reseaux.com/fr/forms/technoference-20-mieux-vivre-grace-au-numerique-sport-suivi-de-lactivite-et-reeducationl
Our Solidanim/INRIA partnership under the spotlights!
Our joint work on the Mr-Meliès/SolidTrack technology with Solidanim, our industrial partner on virtual and real cinematography techniques, has been nominated for “best 2016 innovation” at the Paris Digital Images Submit (Jan 25-28, 2017). with 3 other products. More details here: Paris Images Digital Submit.
Hui-yin Wu’s PhD Defense
Hui-yin Wu defended her PhD at IRISA “Cinematic Discourse for Interactive 3D Storytelling”. in room Métivier (C024), on Friday 10AM, October 7th. PhD committee: Ulrike Sperling, Professeur, Hochschule RheinMain / Rapporteur Michael Young, Professeur, University of Utah / Rapporteur Tim Smith, Senior lecturer, Birbeck University of London / Examinateur Tsai-Yen…
VHCIE Workshop
We are organizing a workshop on virtual humans and crowds for immersive environments (VHCIE). The workshop will take place in Los Angeles, USA, during the IEEE Virtual Reality Conference,in March, 2017. We call for submissions of research papers and technical notes (4-8 pages) or position papers and work-in-progress research abstracts (2-3 pages) on the…
MimeTIC in the MIDEST 2016 industrial event
MimeTIC hold a booth in the MIDEST 2016 industrial event in Paris December 5-8th in collaboration with Faurecia company in order to demonstrate the results of Pierre Plantard’s PhD (Cifre contract with Faurecia). Two main results were shown: automatic ergonomic assessment using a Kinect on real workstation, and in VR…
Ana Lucia Cruz Ruiz PhD Defense
Low-Dimensional Control Representations for Muscle-Based Characters: Application to Overhead Throwing The presentation will take place at INRIA Rennes, in room Métivier (C024), on Friday December 2nd, at 10:30am. PhD committee / Composition du jury: Michiel van de Panne, Professeur, University of British Columbia / Rapporteur Philippe Souères, Directeur de Recherche,…