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T6High Performance Virtual Garment Simulation

Date:	Monday, 4th September
Time:	14:00 - 17:30
Location:	Tutorial Room 7 (HS 7)

Organizer: Markus Wacker, HtW Dresden
Wolfgang Strasser, University of Tuebingen
Speakers: Markus Wacker, HtW Dresden, Germany
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, MIRALab, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Pascal Volino MIRAlab, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Bernhard Thomaszewski, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Abstract: For virtual characters the simulation of garments is a vital component towards realistic and believable scenarios that range from interactive virtual reality (virtual tailoring and cultural heritage) to realistic synthetic animation (CAD modeling and film production). This course adresses the key techniques involved in the latest state-of-the-art in physically based cloth simulation. The course will present the following topics: Research fields in the core technologies for garment simulation: Prepositioning, mechanical models, numerical integration, collision detection and response.Application-specific techniques: Real-time virtual reality, garment design, fast prototyping.Demonstrations, projects, and case studies.

Speakers' Background

Markus Wacker: studied Mathematics and Physics at the University of Tübingen and the scuola normale superiore in Pisa, Italy. He received his Master degree in 1997. Afterwards he continued with his Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Tübingen in the field of functional analysis with research stays in Memphis, Tennessee, USA and Lecce, Italy. Since 2001 he is member of the graphics research group at the University of Tübingen and project leader of the national research project Virtual Try-On. He now has a professorship at the University of Applied Sciences Dresden for Computer Graphics. His main research areas are physically modeling of material parameters, finite element methods and design and tailoring applications in virtual reality.
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann: has pioneered research into virtual humans over the last 25 years. She obtained several Bachelors and Masters degrees in various disciplines (Psychology, Biology and Chemistry) and a Ph.D. in Quantum Physics from the University of Geneva. From 1977 to 1989, she was a Professor at the University of Montreal and led the research lab MIRALab in Canada. She moved to the University of Geneva in 1989, where she founded the Swiss MIRALab, an internationally interdisciplinary lab composed of about 30 researchers. She is author and coauthor of a very high number of research papers and books in the field of modeling virtual humans, interacting with them and in augmented life. She has received several scientific and artistic awards for her work, mainly on the Virtual Marylin and the film Rendez-Vous Montreal. She has directed and produced several films and real-time mixed reality shows, among the latest are the Utopians (2001), Dreams of a Mannequin (2003) and the Augmented Life in Pompeii (2004). She is editor-in-chief of the Visual Computer Journal published by Springer Verlag and coeditor-in-chief of the Computer Animation & VirtualWorlds journal published by John Wiley.
Pascal Volino: is a computer scientist, working at MIRAlab, University of Geneva. He is actually working on new models for cloth animation, involving versatile models for efficient simulations on situations involving high deformation, wrinkling and multilayer garments. The research is particularly focused on data structure, efficient collision detection, robust simulation and interactive cloth manipulation.
Bernhard Thomaszewski: studied Informatics and Physics at the University of Tübingen and has recently finished his diploma thesis on physically based simulation of thin flexible objects with a research stay at the EVASION group at INRIA, Grenoble. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the graphics research group at the University of Tübingen.