Nadia Magnenat Thalmann
Nadia Magnenat Thalmann | |
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Nationality | Swiss, Canadian |
Alma mater | University of Geneva École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) |
Awards | Humboldt Research Award The Canadian Human Computer Communications Society Award CGI Achievement Award Honorary Doctorate from University of Ottawa Eurographics Distinguished Career Award Dr. Honoris Causa in Natural Sciences from Leibniz University Hannover Member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer Graphics Virtual Humans Social Humanoid Robotics |
Institutions | Université Laval HEC, University of Montréal University of Geneva Nanyang Technological University (NTU) |
Professor Nadia Magnenat Thalmann is a computer graphics[1] scientist and robotician[2][circular reference] and is the founder and head of MIRALab at the University of Geneva. She has chaired the Institute for Media Innovation at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore from 2009 to 2021.
Biography[]
Nadia Magnenat Thalmann received an MS in Psychology, an MS in Biology and a Master in Biochemistry at the University of Geneva. She obtained a PhD in Quantum Physics in 1977 from the same university. She started her career as an Assistant Professor at the University Laval in Canada, then became a Professor at HEC,[3] University of Montreal until 1988. In 1989, she moved to the University of Geneva where she founded the MIRALab laboratory.
Thalmann has authored and co-authored more than 600 papers in the area of Virtual Humans, social robots, VR, and 3D simulation of human articulations (CV[4]). She has participated in more than 45 European research projects[5] and led quite a few of them.[6] She has served the Computer Graphics community by creating the Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA) in Geneva in 1988, as well as managing Computer Graphics International (CGI), both of which are internationally well known conferences.[7] She is the editor-in-chief of the journal The Visual Computer published by Springer, Germany[8] and co editor-in-chief of the Computer Animation Journal published by Wiley.[9]
Research[]
Nadia Magnenat Thalmann has made numerous research contributions in the general area of computer graphics and is best known for her work on simulating realistic virtual humans. She also made early contributions in computer graphics during her PhD by simulating and visualizing 3D electronic densities of the Schrödinger equation's approximate solutions (1977).[10][11] Later on, she pioneered the modelling of realistic Virtual Humans, particularly producing the first simulation of a 3D version of Marilyn Monroe[12][13][14][15][16][17][18] in the film Rendez-vous in Montreal (1987)[19][20][21][22][23][24] This film was shown in world premiere at the Place des Arts in Montreal to celebrate 100 years of engineering in Canada.[25] She also showed her film at the Modern Art Museum in New York in 1988 along with Canadian computer artists.[26]
She published several landmark papers on facial and body deformation methods[20][21][27][28] and cloth simulation.[29][30] She made several original contributions in MRI segmentation methods correlated with clinical findings.[31][32][33] She also modelled the simulation of Virtual Ballerinas where their hip cartilage deformations can be visualized while dancing.[34][31] She further demonstrates see-through knee articulations of real soccer players.[35] Since 2008, she has started at MIRALab, University of Geneva, a research with the humanoid robot EVA and demonstrated a first model of a realistic robot showing emotions and having a memory model.[36] More recently, she has worked on the social autonomous robot Nadine,[37][38] modeled in her image, that is able to speak, recognize people and gestures, express mood and emotions, and remember actions.[39] Nadine has been shown at the ArtScience Museum, in the exhibition HUMAN+: The Future of our Species, in Singapore, which has attracted more than 100 000 visitors.[40][41]
Honors and awards[]
Thalmann has received more than 30 honors and awards[6] such as "Woman of the Year",[42][43] for early original contribution in computer graphics in Montreal (1987). More recently, she was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa in Natural sciences from Leibniz University Hannover (2009),[44] an Honorary Doctorate of the University of Ottawa[45] (2010) and a Career Achievement Award from the Canadian Human Computer Communications Society[46] in Toronto (2012). The same year she received the prestigious Humboldt Research Award[47] in Germany, given to academics whose fundamental discoveries, new theories, or insights have had a significant impact on their own discipline and who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge achievements in the future. She has also produced several award-winning films, among them "Virtual Marilyn" at the Golden Camera Ceremony in Berlin.[48] She was also selected as a Pioneer in Information Technology at the Heinz Nixdorf Computer Museum's Electronic Wall of Fame in Germany.[49] Her film "High Fashion in Equations" has won the CGI 2007 Best International Scientific Video award[50] and was shown in the SIGGRAPH Electronic Theatre in the same year.[51] Nadine, her Social Robot, has received more than 1.2 million video views online, and over 200 publications in international media.[52]
Filmography[]
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The following filmography contains a hundred of films demonstrating the interdisciplinary research of Nadia Magnenat Thalmann and her team in Virtual Humans, Social Robots, Cultural Heritage, 3D Fashion shows, 3D medical patients, and early Mixed Reality.
Year | Title | showDescription |
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References[]
- ^ Google Scholar h-index
- ^ Nadine Social Robot
- ^ Inaugural lecture by Nadia Thalmann
- ^ CV
- ^ European Research Projects
- ^ Jump up to: a b CV pages
- ^ Computer Graphics Society
- ^ The Visual Computer Editor-in-Chief
- ^ Computer Animation Journal Co-Editor-in-Chief
- ^ N. Magnenat Thalmann, A New Computer Program for Generating Three-Dimensional Plots of Electronic Densities and Related Contour Levels, Chimia, Swiss Chemical Society, vol. 31, no. 9, pp.361-362, 1977
- ^ N. Magnenat Thalmann and J. Weber, LCAO Xα calculation of the ionization energies of small molecules, Chemical Physics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 47, no. 3, 1977
- ^ The Ottawa Citizen, Tuesday, June 16, 1987
- ^ The Gazette from Montreal, May 21, 1987
- ^ Culture et Société, Montreal, May 21, 1987
- ^ Arts et spectacles, La Presse, Montreal, May 21, 1987
- ^ Point de mire, La Suisse, September 24, 1987
- ^ Playback, June 1, 1987
- ^ Vancouver Sun, June 16, 1987
- ^ N. Magnenat Thalmann and D. Thalmann, The Direction of Synthetic Actors in the film Rendez-vous à Montreal, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE publisher, vol. 7, no. 12, pp. 9-19, 1987
- ^ Jump up to: a b N. Magnenat Thalmann, E. Primeau and D. Thalmann, Abstract Muscle Action Procedures for Human Face Animation, The Visual Computer, Springer Verlag, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 290-297, 1987
- ^ Jump up to: a b N. Magnenat Thalmann, R. Laperrière and D. Thalmann, Joint-Dependent Local Deformations for Hand Animation and Object Grasping, Proceeding of Graphics Interface ’88, A. K. Peters Ltd., pp. 26-33, 1988
- ^ Os truques da vanguarda, Wednesday, November 25, 1987
- ^ Het Vrije Volk, Saturday, June 27, 1987
- ^ Eurographics, Holland, November, 1987
- ^ World Premiere at the Place des Arts
- ^ Animatie in Canada serieuze onderneming
- ^ P. Kalra, A. Mangili, N. Magnenat Thalmann and D. Thalmann, Simulation of Facial Muscle Actions Based on Rational Free Form Deformations, Proceeding of Eurographics ’92, Cambridge, UK, pp. 59-69, 1992
- ^ H. Seo and N. Magnenat Thalmann, LoD Management on Animating Face Models, Proceeding of IEEE Virtual Reality 2000, New Brunswick, USA, IEEE Publisher, pp. 161-168, October 2000
- ^ M. Carignan, Y. Yang, N. Magnenat Thalmann and D. Thalmann, Dressing animated synthetic actors with complex deformable clothes, Proceedings of the 19th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques SIGGRAPH '92, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 99 – 104, July 1992
- ^ P. Volino, M. Courchesne and N. Magnenat Thalmann, Versatile and Efficient Techniques for Simulating Cloth and Other Deformable Objects, Proceeding of Image-Based Modeling, Rendering, and Lighting (SIGGRAPH ’95), Computer Graphics, pp. 137-144, 1995
- ^ Jump up to: a b J. Schmid, J. Kim and N. Magnenat Thalmann, Extreme Leg Motion Analysis of Professional Ballet Dancers via MRI Segmentation of Multiple Leg Postures, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (IF: 1.659), Springer, vol. 6, no.1, pp.45-57, May 2010
- ^ B. Gilles and N. Magnenat Thalmann, Musculoskeletal MRI Segmentation Using Multi-resolution Simplex Meshes with Medial Representations, Medical Image Analysis (IF: 3.681), Elsevier, vol.14, pp.291-302, June 2010
- ^ B. Gilles, F. Kolo-Christophe, N. Magnenat Thalmann, C. Becker, S. Duc, J. Menetrey and P. Hoffmeyer, MRI-based Assessment of Hip Joint Translations, Journal of Biomechanics (IF: 2.496), vol. 42, no.9, pp.1201-1205, June 19, 2009
- ^ C. Charbonnier, F.C. Kolo, V.B. Duthon, N. Magnenat Thalmann, C.D. Becker, P. Hoffmeyer, and J. Menetrey, Assessment of Congruence and Impingement of the Hip Joint in Professional Ballet Dancers, American Journal of Sports Medicine (IF: 4.699), vol. 39, pp.557-566, March, 2011
- ^ A. Chincisan, K. Tecante, M. Becker, N. Magnenat Thalmann, C. Hurschler, H.F. Choi, A computational approach to calculate personalized pennation angle based on MRI: effect on motion analysis, Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (IF: 1.66), DOI: 10.1007/s11548-015-1251-9, July 2015
- ^ Z. Kasap and N. Magnenat Thalmann, Building long-term relationships with virtual and robotic characters: the role of remembering, The Visual Computer (IF: 1.073), vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 87-97, January 2012
- ^ Nadine
- ^ Media coverage on Nadine
- ^ J. Zhang J, N. Magnenat Thalmann and J. Zheng, Combining Memory and Emotion With Dialog on Social Companion: A Review, Proceedings of the ACM 29th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2016), pp. 1-9, Geneva, Switzerland, May 23–25, 2016
- ^ Nadine at the Singapore ArtScience Museum
- ^ Media coverage on Nadine exhibition
- ^ L'École des hautes études commerciales, Woman of the Year, 1987
- ^ Journal des Ingénieurs, Le Plan, Québec Juillet/août 1987
- ^ Awarded Doctor Honoris Causa in Natural sciences from Leibniz University Hannover
- ^ Honorary Doctorate of the University of Ottawa
- ^ Career Achievement Award from the Canadian Human Computer Communications Society
- ^ Humboldt Research Award
- ^ "Virtual Marilyn" at the Golden Camera Ceremony
- ^ Heinz Nixdorf Computer Museum’s Electronic Wall of Fame
- ^ CGI 2007 Best International Scientific Video award
- ^ SIGGRAPH Electronic Theatre 2007
- ^ Nadine Press Releases
External links[]
- Nadia’s List Of Publication
- Full CV
- Media coverage on Nadine - Social Robot
- Nadia Magnenat Thalmann publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Computer graphics researchers
- Canadian computer scientists
- Canadian women computer scientists
- Computer graphics professionals
- Swiss computer scientists
- Swiss women computer scientists
- Living people
- Université Laval faculty