1st Japanese-French Cooperative Workshop "Improving the VR

1st Japanese-French Cooperative Workshop
"Improving the VR experience"
日仏超臨場 VR ワークショップ
June 3rd – June 5th, 2008
Workshop:
June 4th, 10:00-18:30
at Sanjo Conference Hall, The University of Tokyo
This workshop and collaboration is supported by
Strategic Japanese-French Cooperative Program on “Information and
Communications Technology (ICT) including Computer Science” by
JST
Michitaka HIROSE and Dominique BECHMANN
Jan 2008-Dec 2010
Schedule
June 3rd, 2008
Lab Tour: Sato Lab (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Guide: Prof. Codognet
10:00
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Suzukake-dai campus
Bldg R2, 510 room (tour starting points)
10:00-10:10 Explanation of the tour (Bldg. R2-514 Room)
10:10-10:15 Move to Bldg. R3 302 room
10:15-10:45 Demonstration of the Immersive Projection Display D-Vision
10:45-10:50 Move to Bldg. R2 507 room
10:50-11:30 Demonstration of haptic display SPIDAR
Lunch
Move to Hongo Campus
Lab Tour: Naemura Lab and IRT Lab (The University of Tokyo)
Guide: Prof.Codognet --> Dr. Nishimura
14:00
The University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus
Faculty of Engineering Bldg.2
14:00-14:30 Naemura Lab (11F 113C1)
14:30-17:00
Labs in Information and Robot Technology
Research Initiative (1F / 8F)
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Suzukake-dai campus
http://www.titech.ac.jp/access-and-campusmap/e/suzukakedai-campus.html
Bldg: R2
http://www.titech.ac.jp/access-and-campusmap/e/suzukakedaiR.html
Sato-Koike Lab.
http://sklab-www.pi.titech.ac.jp/frame_index-e.html
The University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus
http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/map01_02_e.html
Faculty of Engineering Bldg.2, 8F
http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_04_03_e.html
Harashima Naemura Lab
http://www.hc.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
Information and Robot Technology Research Initiative
http://www.irt.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
Hirose-Tanikawa Lab.(Cyber Interface Lab)
http://www.cyber.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
Nakamura-Yamane Lab
http://www.ynl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
Shimoyama-Matsumoto Lab
http://www.leopard.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
Inaba-Mizuuchi Lab (Jouhou System Kougaku Lab)
http://www.jsk.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
Kuniyoshi-Harada Lab (Intelligent Systems and Informatics Lab)
http://www.isi.imi.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
Sato-Mori Lab (Intelligent Cooperative Systems Lab)
http://www.ics.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
June 4th, 2008
1st Japanese-French Cooperative Workshop "Improving
the VR experience"
日仏超臨場 VR ワークショップ
at Sanjo Conference Hall, The University of Tokyo
10:00-18:30
Chair: Prof. Hirose
10:00-10:05 Greetings from Prof. Shimoyama
Dean, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The
University of Tokyo
10:05-10:20 Introduction from Prof. Hirose
Hirose-Tanikawa Lab., The University of Tokyo
10:20-10:40 Dr. Tomohiro Tanikawa
Hirose-Tanikawa Lab., The University of Tokyo
10:40-11:00 Dr. Caroline Villard
LSIIT, UMR 7005 CNRS-ULP
11:00-11:20 Mr. Hironori Mitake
Sato Lab., Tokyo Institute of Technology
11:20-11:40 Dr. Stephane Donikian
IRISA, CNRS UMR 6074
11:40-12:00 Mr. Jean Sreng
IRISA, CNRS UMR 6074
"Haptic interaction in virtual environments"
12:00-13:00 Lunch
Chair: Prof.Codognet
13:00-13:30 Guest Speaker's Talk: Prof.Masa Inakage
Dean, Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University
13:30-13:50 Dr. Pascal Guitton
LaBRI, CNRS UMR 5800
13:50-14:10 Mr. Takashi Ijiri
Igarashi Lab., The University of Tokyo
14:10-14:30 Dr. Pascal Barla
LaBRI, CNRS UMR 5800
"Stylized shading and morphing techniques for computer animation"
14:30-14:50 Mr. Manuel Veit
LSIIT, UMR 7005 CNRS-ULP
14:50-15:10 Coffee Break
Chair: Prof. Ikei
15:10-15:30 Mr. Naohisa Nagaya
Inami Lab., The University of Electro-Communications
15:30-15:50 Dr. Antonio Capobianco
LSIIT, UMR 7005 CNRS-ULP
15:50-16:10 Mr. Tokuo Yamaguchi
Kitamura Lab., Osaka University
16:10-16:30 Dr. Fabien Lotte
IRISA, CNRS
"Brain-Computer Interfaces and Virtual Reality: the OpenViBE
project"
16:30-16:50 Dr. Thierry Duval
16:50-17:10 Coffee Break
Chair: Dr. Tanikawa
17:10-17:30 Dr.Yasushi Ikei
Tokyo Metropolitan University
17:30-17:50 Dr. Gérard Assayag
17:50-18:10 Dr. Philippe Codognet
Keio University / CNRS
“Interactive sound installations”
18:10-18:25 Discussion for Collaboration
18:25-18:30 Closing Remarks:
19:30
Dinner
The University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus
http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/map01_02_e.html
Sanjo Conference Hall
http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_00_02_e.html
June 5th, 2008
Lab Tour: Global Studio (Keio University)
Guide: Prof.Codognet, Dr. Nishimura
12:00-13:30
Keio University, Mita campus
13:30-15:30
Global Studio (4K cinema) East Research Building 6F
Move to NII
Lab Tour: NII openhouse (National Institute of Informatics)
Guide: Prof.Codognet, Dr. Nishimura
16:00-18:00
NII open house
Keio Univ Mita campus
http://www.keio.ac.jp/english/about_keio/campus_info/mita1.html
Research Institute for Digital Media and Content(DMC), Keio University
http://www.dmc.keio.ac.jp/en/
NII (National Institute of Informatics)
http://www.nii.ac.jp/introduce/access1.shtml
NII open
house
http://www.nii.ac.jp/index.shtml.en
Leader’s Information
Japanese Research Leader’s Information
Michitaka Hirose (http://www.cyber.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp) was born in 1954 in Japan. He
received his BE, ME and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tokyo in 1977, 1979 and
1982 respectively. Currently, he is a professor of human interface at Graduate School of
Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo. His research interests
include enhanced human interface, interactive computer graphics, wearable computer
and virtual reality. He has served as a project leader of Virtual Reality project sponsored
by The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. Through these projects, he
successfully demonstrated sophisticated VR based museum exhibit and contributed to
improved quality of VR technology. He was awarded “Tokyo Techno-Forum Gold Medal
Award”
in
1998,
“The
Chairman
Prize“
from
The
Ministry
of
Posts
and
Telecommunications in 2003, “Best Paper Award” from VRSJ in 1999, 2004, 2005, and
“Okawa Publication Prize” in 2004.
French Research Leader’s Information
Dominique Bechmann (http://dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr/~bechmann) is a professor of
computer science at the Strasbourg University and a researcher at the LSIIT CNRS Lab
since 1996. For 10 years now, she has also been head of the computer graphics research
team in Strasbourg, France. From 1986 to 1989, she did her PhD at the IBM scientific
centre (Paris, France) on geometric modelling of anatomic organs. In 1990, she did a
postdoc at the T.J. Watson research centre (Yorktown Heigths, New York, USA) on
deformation models. In 1991, she became an assistant professor and since then she is
working on geometric modelling and virtual reality.
Starting from 2004, Dominique Bechmann has been leading the ICT France-Asian project
on Virtual Reality. This project includes 8 French labs, 7 Korean labs, 6 Japanese labs, 3
Chinese labs, 2 Taiwan labs and 2 Singapore labs. She has been reviewing papers for
3DUI symposium of the IEEE Virtual Reality conference 2007, Edutainment’2006,
Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments 2004, ACM Solid modeling, The Journal
of Visualization and Computer Animation, International Journal of Shape Modeling, The
Visual Computer, Computer Graphics Forum, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and
Computer Graphics, Computer & Graphics, Graphical Models.
Abstract
The goal of this project is to take advantage of the french-japanese relationships that were
initiated during the STIC France-Asian project in VR (2004-2006), by concretising the exchanges
through collaborations around the improvement of immersion in Virtual Reality environments. We
aim at enhancing the behaviour, visualization, and interaction between entities or between the
user and the entities evolving in these virtual worlds. At the end, the expected results are an
improvement of the realism in immersive environment, in particular of expressiveness, intelligent
behaviour of entities, and interactive gestures to communicate intuitively with these entities. The
possible outcomes of these works could concern realistic simulators for instance in the military
field, or in games, entertainment, and education.
Description
Virtual Reality (VR) is a scientific and technical domain, making the most of computer science and
behavioral interface to simulate the behavior of entities in a virtual world. One of the most
important and difficult topics of VR is to obtain the best possible feeling of immersion. To reach
this goal, it is necessary to combine a correct representation of the behavior of entities in the 3D
scene, an intuitive and natural interaction, and a relevant visualization, all of this in real time.
To overcome this scientific challenge, we identified the three following points:
-
Intelligent behaviour of virtual entities: improvement of the believability of virtual
humans by combining together reactive and cognitive behaviors. We would like to
explore multilayered approaches allowing to combine reactive path planning and collision
avoidance together with cognitive task planning,
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Non photorealistic rendering of virtual worlds: non photorealistic rendering (NPR,
also mentionned as expressive rendering) is a very promising way to visualize virtual
worlds. NPR is based both on very ancient graphical technics (drawing, painting) as well
on very recent ones (cartoons),
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Interaction with virtual worlds: improvement of the gesture in immersive
environment. Among others, by physically constraining the motion of the hand or a
hand-held tool thanks to haptic or pseudo-haptic techniques.
STIC France-Asian project in VR (2004-2006) initiated collaborations with french and japanese
actors in VR, and allowed to discover mutual interest between french and japanese labs around
this scientific challenge. The three mentioned topics were found most interesting and meaningful
after a series of long communications among members of STIC France-Asian project in VR. We
would like to join our forces on a common project on these topics, and we think that an
international collaborative JST France-Japan program in VR would be the best way to concretize
this project. The proposed research areas take the interests and strengths of all french and
japanese groups into account, and the so formed partnership gives the project the best chances
to succeed. We therefore feel confident that our proposed areas of research complement all
participants well.
Plan
2008/06 joint workshop in Japan
2008/07-08 researcher exchange.
One Japanese students will visit French labs for a week or two.
Two Japanese researchers will visit French labs for a week or two.
Three French students will visit Japanese labs for a month or two.
Two French researcher will visit Japanese labs for a week or two.
2009/02 joint workshop in France
2009/07-08 researcher exchange.
Three Japanese students will visit French labs for a week or two.
Two Japanese researchers will visit French labs for a week or two.
Three French students will visit Japanese labs for a month or two.
Two French researcher will visit Japanese labs for a week or two.
2009/11 joint workshop in Japan
2010/07-08 researcher exchange.
One Japanese students will visit French labs for a week or two.
Two Japanese researchers will visit French labs for a week or two.
Three French students will visit Japanese labs for a month or two.
Two French researcher will visit Japanese labs for a week or two.
20010/10 joint workshop in France
Member List
Japanese Team:
Name
Organization, Division
Division
Title
（Leader）
Michitaka Hirose
Graduate School of Information Science
and Technology, The University of Tokyo
Professor
（Researchers）
Makoto Sato
Masahiko Inami
Philippe
Codognet
Yasushi Ikei
Yoshifumi Kitamura
Takeo Igarashi
Tomohiro Tanikawa
Kunihiro Nishimura
Precision and Intelligence Laboratory,
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Graduate School of Media Design, Keio
University
Research Institute for Digital Media and
Content, Keio University
Professor
Professor
Professor
Graduate School of System Design,
Associate
Tokyo Metropolitan University
Professor
Graduate School of Information Science
Associate
and Technology, Osaka University
Professor
Graduate School of Information Science
Associate
and Technology, The University of Tokyo
Professor
Graduate School of Information Science
and Technology, The University of Tokyo
Graduate School of Information Science
and Technology, The University of Tokyo
Lecturer
Assistant Professor
French Team:
Name
Organization, Division
Title
（Leader）
D. BECHMANN
LSIIT, UMR 7005 CNRS-ULP
Professor
C. VILLARD
LSIIT, UMR 7005 CNRS-ULP
Assist. prof
LSIIT, UMR 7005 CNRS-ULP
Student
A. CAPOBIANCO
LSIIT, UMR 7005 CNRS-ULP
Assist. prof
J. GROSJEAN
LSIIT, UMR 7005 CNRS-ULP
Assist. prof
M. VEIT
LSIIT, UMR 7005 CNRS-ULP
Student
P. BARLA
LaBRI, CNRS UMR 5800
Researcher
P. GUITTON
LaBRI, CNRS UMR 5800
Professor
M. HACHET
LaBRI, CNRS UMR 5800
Researcher
R. VERGNE
LaBRI, CNRS UMR 5800
Student
M. CHRISTIE
IRISA, CNRS UMR 6074
Researcher
S. DONIKIAN
IRISA, CNRS UMR 6074
Researcher
F. LAMARCHE
IRISA, CNRS UMR 6074
Assist. prof
A. LECUYER
IRISA, CNRS UMR 6074
Researcher
J. PETTRE
IRISA, CNRS UMR 6074
Researcher
J. SRENG
IRISA, CNRS UMR 6074
Student
（Researchers）
C. BAEGERT
List of Attendees
Guest:
Isao Shimoyama
The University of Tokyo
Masahiko Inakage
Keio University
French Team (family name alphabetic order)
Gérard Assayag
Pascal Barla
LaBRI, CNRS UMR 5800
Antonio Capobianco
LSIIT, UMR 7005 CNRS-ULP
Stephane Donikian
IRISA, CNRS UMR 6074
pascal.barla@labri.fr
Thierry Duval
Pascal Guitton
LaBRI, CNRS UMR 5800
Fabien Lotte
guitton@labri.fr
fabien.lotte@irisa.fr
Jean Sreng
IRISA, CNRS UMR 6074
jean.sreng@irisa.fr
Caroline Villard
LSIIT, UMR 7005 CNRS-ULP
villard@lsiit.u-strasbg.fr
Manuel Veit
LSIIT, UMR 7005 CNRS-ULP
Japanese Team (family name alphabetic order)
Philippe Codognet
Keio University
philippe@dmc.keio.ac.jp
Naoki Hashimoto
Tokyo Institute of Technology
naoki@hi.pi.titech.ac.jp
Michitaka Hirose
The University of Tokyo
hirose@cyber.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Atsushi Hiyama
The University of Tokyo
atsushi@cyber.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Takeo Igarashi
The University of Tokyo
takeo@acm.org
Takashi Ijiri
The University of Tokyo
takashi.ijiri@nifty.com
Yasushi Ikei
Tokyo Metropolitan University
ikei@krmgiks5.tmit.ac.jp
Masahiko Inami
Keio University
inami@inami.info
Yoshifumi Kitamura
Osaka University
kitamura@ist.osaka-u.ac.jp
Hironori Mitake
Naohisa Nagaya
Tokyo Institute of Technology
mitake@hi.pi.titech.ac.jp
The University of
nagaya@hi.mce.uec.ac.jp
Electro-Communications
Kunihiro Nishimura
The University of Tokyo
kuni@cyber.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Makoto Sato
Tokyo Institute of Technology
msato@pi.titech.ac.jp
Tomohiro Tanikawa
The University of Tokyo
tani@cyber.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Ryoko Ueoka
The University of Tokyo
yogurt@cyber.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Tokuo Yamaguchi
Osaka University
yamaguchi.tokuo@ist.osaka-u.ac.jp
Maps
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Suzukake-dai campus, Bldg R2, 510 room
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Suzukake-dai campus
http://www.titech.ac.jp/access-and-campusmap/e/suzukakedai-campus.html
Bldg: R2
http://www.titech.ac.jp/access-and-campusmap/e/suzukakedaiR.html
No.3 Area
No.4 Building in the No.3 area
Precision and Intelligence Laboratory
The University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus, Faculty of Engineering Bldg.2 and Sanjo
Conference Hall
The University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus
http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/map01_02_e.html
Faculty of Engineering Bldg.2, 1F, 8F, 11F
http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_04_03_e.html
Sanjo Conference Hall
http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_00_02_e.html
Keio University, Mita Campus
Keio Univ, Mita campus
http://www.keio.ac.jp/english/about_keio/campus_info/mita1.html
No.4 Building, East Research Building
NII(National Institute of Informatics)
NII
http://www.nii.ac.jp/introduce/access1.shtml