Keynote Speaker
 

"Virtual Try on the Web" By Professor Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Director of MIRALab / C.U.I., University of Geneva, Switzerland

Abstract

In this presentation, we will discussed what is required to be able to virtually try clothes on the web. We are offering an application where every web user can define his/her body according to his/her own measurements, choose a 3D cloth and see himself/herself animated in a specific decor. We will then discuss our research in 3 areas that make this application possible: 1) the interactive modeling of bodies according to dimensions, 2) the simulation of RT physics-based simulation of clothes and 3) the motion retargeting. To be able to see oneself as we are, we have developed a body modeller that allows us to be modelled very precisely. For the body animation, we use a generic motion capture that is retargeted automatically according to the body dimensions that has been interactively provided by the user. If a person is then much bigger than the person who was motion captured originally, the system will evaluate the possible collisions detection both with the body parts itself and the feet on the floor and retarget according to the new body size and redefine a somehow different walking style. Finally, a full Real-Time simulation of cloth has been developped. We will discuss how the system takes automatically how the 3D generic cloth is adapted to the new body shape defined interactively. This integrated system will be fully demonstrated with several clothes examples coming from various clothing companies. ( www.miralab.unige.ch)

Bio

Prof. Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann has pioneered research into virtual humans over the last 25 years. She obtained several Bachelor's and Master's degrees in various disciplines (Psychology, Biology and Chemistry) and a PhD in Quantum Physics from the University of Geneva in 1977. From 1977 to 1989, she was a Professor at the University of Montreal in Canada.
Since 1989, she is Professor at the University of Geneva where she founded the interdisciplinary research group MIRALab. Currently, she is the coordinator of several European research projects, among them INTERMEDIA ( http://intermedia.miralab.unige.ch/) and 3D
ANATOMICAL HUMANS (http://3dah.miralab.unige.ch/). She is also Editor-in-Chief of the Visual Computer Journal published by Springer
Verlag, co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds published by Wiley, and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. She has published more than 450 papers, mostly in simulation of Virtual Humans, 3D simulation of clothes and hair. She has received in January 2009 a Dr honoris Causa from the Leizniz University of Hanovre.
 

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