Virtual Reality Laboratory

and Immersive Interactions Research Group

Project List

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The list includes various project types : 
= Semester     

= Master    

A project associated with multiple icons indicates how the work to be done differs depending on the project type, especially between Semester and Master.

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Meaning of other icons

-> projects that can be done by a team of 2 students (SysCom)

-> hardware oriented projects
-> New project.  -> Updated project

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The projects are grouped by topics

1. Human-Machine Interface, Augmented Reality

2. Modelling, Simulation, Deformation, Animation

3. Higher-level Behavioral Control

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Registration:

It is not possible to ask an assistant to keep a project for you for a while. We accept only firm registration done by making the official application on GESTAC. Before doing so, the student must have the agreement of the person proposing the project.

How to get the list of projects already officially taken :

It may happen that a project listed below is already taken by a student and this fact is not yet reflected in the list. If you want to get the list of projects officially taken, just proceed as follow:

1) from www.epfl.ch go to the « Etudiant » then « IS – Academia / Getsac », then « ACCES PUBLIC », then « Inscription aux projets,… par enseignants »,

2) You arrive on a page where you have to select :

The academic year

The semester « automne » or « printemps »,

Then the name of the lecturer. For the VRLAB type « Thalmann », then choose « Thalmann Daniel », or type “Boulic”, then choose “Boulic Ronan”.

You obtain the list of projects already taken, sorted by categories: first the Master projects, then the semester projects per section (SC, Info).

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site undergoing frequent updates until april 2010

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1. Human-Machine Interface, Visualization, Rendering
	1.1 (Collaboration with LNCO) Shake your body !
	1.2 (Collaboration with LMAM) Inertial sensor-based walking trajectory analysis
	1.3 Omni-viewpoint in full-body stereo-CAVE interaction
	1.5 Smart remote control: Taking advantage of the ambient noise
	1.6 Real-time geometric reconstruction using multi-parallel video streams
	1.7 Real-time geometric reconstruction using a video stream from a mobile camera
	1.8 How can we turn while navigating without turning the body in a CAVE
	1.9 Interactive movement manipulation and analysis in 3D
	1.10 Shake your body ! (Collaboration with LNCO)
2. Modelling, Simulation, Deformation, Animation
	2.1  (collaboration with a sculptor) Design software for self-balancing sculptures
	2.2 Real-time virtual human speech: sentence lips movement aspects
	2.3 Real-time virtual human speech: sentence to sound aspects

3. Higher-level Behavioral Control
	3.1 Collision avoidance based on the Egocentric Affordance Field
	3.2 Semi-Deformable Virtual Human (VH) Animation
	3.3 Conversational Body Movement with Emotions