T6High Performance Virtual Garment Simulation
- 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
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- 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.
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