V_CROWDS'05

First International Workshop on Crowd Simulation (V-CROWDS’05)

EPFL, Lausanne - Switzerland, November 24 and 25, 2005

PROGRAM (pdf)

	DAY1: Thursday, November 24
8h30-9h15	Registration
9h15-9h30	Welcome address by Prof. Daniel Thalmann, VRlab, EPFL
9h30-10h15	Invited Speaker: Alex Gerodimos Real-life Applications of Pedestrian Simulation
10h15-10h30	Coffee Break
10h30-12h00	Papers Session I
	Modelling Gathering Events in Virtual Environments Using Ontologies Daniel Costa de Paiva, Andre Tavares, Renata Vieira, Soraia Raupp Musse
	Crowd Simulation Incorporating Agent Psychological Models, Roles and Communication Nuria Pelechano, Kevin O’Brien, Barry Silverman, Norman Badler
	Emotional Communicative Body Animation for Multiple Characters Arjan Egges and Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
12h00-13h30	Lunch
13h30-14h15	Invited Speaker: Yiorgos Chrysanthou Adding Pedestrians to a Virtual City
14h15-16h30	Papers Session II
	Tactical Path Finding in Urban Environments Arno Kamphuis, Michiel Rook, Mark H. Overmars
	Reaching Oriented Targets with Funnelling Trajectories Ronan Boulic
15h15-15h30	Coffee Break
	Simulation of Crowd Problems for Computer Vision Ernesto L. Andrade, Robert B. Fisher
	A Navigation Graph for Real-time Crowd Animation on Multilayered and Uneven Terrain Julien Pettré, Jean-Paul Laumond, Daniel Thalmann
16h30-17h30	Papers Session III
	Somatotype based Automatic Generation of Virtual Characters André Tavares de Silva, Soraia Raupp Musse
	LOD Human Representations: A Comparative Study Rachel McDonnel, Simon Dobbyn, Caroll O’Sullivan
19h00	Dinner

	DAY2: Friday, November 25
8h30-9h00	Registration
9h00-10h30	Papers Session IV
	Concurrency on Social Forces Simulation Model Otávio C. Cordeiro, Adriana Braun, Cesar B. Silveira, Soraia R. Musse, Gerson G. H. Cavalheiro
	Models for Crowd Movement and Egress Simulation Hubert Klüpfel, Michael Schreckenberg,Tim Meyer-König
	Street Boy Intelligent System: An Agent-Based Computational Model Cybele L. Reis, Emmanuel P. L. Passos, Nelson F. F. Ebecken
10h30-10h45	Coffee Break
10h45-12h15	Papers Session V
	A Multi-Agent Geo-Simulation Approach to Assess the Impact of Environment Changes on Crowd Behavior Bernard Moulin, Walid Ali
	Towards more Realistic and Efficient Virtual Environment Description and Usage Sébastien Paris, Stéphane Donikian, Nicolas Bonvalet
	Steering a Virtual Crowd Based on a Semantically Augmented Navigation Graph Barbara Yersin, Jonathan Maïm, Pablo de Heras Ciechomski, Sébastien Schertenleib, Daniel Thalmann
12h15-14h00	Lunch
14h00-15h00	Visit VRlab, EPFL

ORGANIZATION

Workshop Chairs

Nadia Magnemat-Thalmann, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland

Program Chairs

Soraia Raupp Musse, University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil

Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland

Program Committee

Amaury Aubel, DreamWorks, USA

David Brogan, University of Virginia, USA

Yiorgos Chrysanthou, University of Cyprus

Pablo de Heras Ciechomski, EPFL, Switzerland

Stephane Donikian, IRISA, France

Michael Gleicher, University of Wisconsin, USA

Jean-Paul Laumond, LAAS, France

Celine Loscos, UCL, UK

Annie Luciani, ICA, France

Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Carol O’Sullivan, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Julien Pettre, EPFL, Switzerland

Craig Reynolds, Sony Playstation, USA

Michael Schreckenberg, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Sung Yong Shin, KAIST, Korea

Keith Still, Crowd Dynamics, UK

Franco Tecchia, PERCRO, Italy

Branislav Ulicny, Consultant, Spain

Organization Committee
Proceedings and local organization
Zerrin Celebi Ghavami, VRlab, EPFL, Switzerland
Web and Computer Services
Olivier Renault, VRlab, EPFL, Switzerland
V-CROWDS'05 Secretary
Josiane Bottarelli, VRlab, EPFL, Switzerland

REGISTRATION

Registration form (pdf)

LOCATION

Switzerland, EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lauanne), room CM 9

HOTEL ACCOMODATION

Here is a list of Hotels in Lausanne with special price.

All hotel reservations should be addressed to: josiane.bottarelli@epfl.ch