Funded PhD studentship at LIMSI-CNRS on Autonomous Virtual Humans and Real-Time Digital Doubles applied to video games

[Jean-Claude MARTIN]

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Funded PhD studentship at LIMSI-CNRS on Autonomous Virtual Humans and
Real-Time Digital Doubles applied to video games

LIMSI-CNRS offers a funded PhD studentship for a student on Autonomous
Virtual Humans and Real-Time Digital Doubles applied to video games.
The post is available for three years and will start in January / February
2012.

SUPERVISOR AND CONTACT
Jean-Claude MARTIN
(MARTIN at LIMSI.FR)

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LOCATION
LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay (30 km south of Paris, RER B) www.limsi.fr
The Laboratory for Mechanics and Engineering Sciences (LIMSI) is a CNRS
laboratory located on Paris South University. This thesis will take place
in the group CPU (Cognition Perception Uses) of the Human-Machine
Communication Department (Head : JC Martin).

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PROJECT BACKGROUND
The project is coordinated by the company ADN – “Agence de Doublure
Numérique” (www.adnda.com), the ADN-TR project (Real Time Digital Doubles).
The project introduces a new process for representing real persons in video
games. It considers  pre-computed cinematic production, and development of
real-time games characters.

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BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SUBJECT
The thesis consists in defining, implementing and evaluating a
computational model for real-time animation of an expressive digital double
of an actor.
Constraints of fidelity will be formalized in terms of visual appearance,
expressiveness and emotional behavior. This will require the specification
and the optimization in order to enable real-time visual representation and
management of the animation expressive space. This expressive space will be
based on analyses of high-resolution recordings of an actor.
A first step will be to establish a specific model of an individual actor.
In a second step, the goal will be to specify a more generic model that can
be used to simulate the behavior of autonomous virtual agents.
The thesis will take place at LIMSI-CNRS in Orsay, in collaboration with
the ADN Company.

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PROFILE
Master degree or engineer degree in computer science
Mathematics, Computer Science, Object Oriented Programming C + + / JAVA
Computer Graphics & Animation using by GPU OpenGL 3.3 / GLSL 3.3 / CUDA;
Human-Computer Interaction, General knowledge of techniques and tools for
3D content creation (Maya) and real-time rendering (game engines)
Facial animation
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APPLICATION
Email to MARTIN at LIMSI.FR:
CV, grades and ranks of the last 2 years, examples of internship reports /
projects.



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Jean-Claude MARTIN

Professor of Computer Science at Paris-South 11 University
Head of the Group "Cognition, Perception and Usability" at LIMSI-CNRS
http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/martin/

Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces
(JMUI)
http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/12193

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LIMSI-CNRS, University of Paris Sud
Building 508, Office 204
B.P. 133, 91403 ORSAY cedex (France).
Tel.: +33 1 6985 8104  -  Fax: +33 1 6985 8088
Email: MARTIN at LIMSI.FR

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