Nadia Professor

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Professor Nadia MagnenatThalmann has pioneered research into virtual humans over the last 30 years. She obtained several Bachelor's and Master's degrees in various disciplines (Psychology, Biology and Biochemistry) 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.
      In 1989, she moved to the University of Geneva where she founded the interdisciplinary research group MIRALab. Her global domain of research is Virtual Humans and Social Robots. She has acquired a great experience of collaborative research through her strong participation to more than 50 European Research Projects. She has coordinated several Europen research projects, the most recent one is the Marie Curie Project MUSTISCALE HUMAN.
      She is 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 many other scientific journals.
      Together with her PhD students, she has published more than 500 papers and books on Virtual Humans and Social Robots with research topics such as 3D clothes, hair, body gestures, emotions modelling, and medical simulation.
      She has been invited to give more than 300 keynote lectures in various institutions and organizations, among them the World Economic Forum in Davos. She was Vice-Rector at the University of Geneva from 2003-2006. She is a Member and President of high level international evaluation committees, among the recent ones the Jury of the Vienna Science and Technology Fund, the Advisory Board for Computer Science at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, the Canada Excellence Research Chairs Review Panel in Ottawa and the European Research Council (ERC).
      During her Career, she has received more than 30 Awards such as “Woman in the Year”, an early recognition in Montreal in 1987. Among the recent ones, she was awarded a Doctor HonorisCausa in Natural Sciences from the Leibniz University of Hanover in Germany in 2009, the Distinguished Career Award from the European Association for Computer Graphics in Norrkoping, Sweden, an Honorary Doctorate of the University in Ottawa in 2010 and a Career Achievement Award from the Canadian Human Computer Communications Society in Toronto in 2012. Very recently, she received the prestigious Humboldt Research Award in Germany.
      Besides directing her research group MIRALab in Switzerland, she is presently visiting Professor and Director of the Institute for Media Innovation (IMI) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

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 J. Hou, L.-P. Chau, N. MagnenatThalmann and Y. He, Scalable and Compact Representation for Motion Capture Data Using Tensor Decomposition, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 21, no. 3, March 2014

J. Hou, L.-P. Chau, M. Zhang, N. MagnenatThalmann and Y. He, A Highly Efficient Compression Framework for Time-Varying 3D Facial Expressions, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), February 2014.

H. Zhu, J. Zheng, J. Cai, and N. MagnenatThalmann, Object-level Image Segmentation Using Low Level Cues, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), October 2013. 

F.C. Kolo, C. Charbonnier, C.W. Pfirrmann, S.R. Duc, A. Lubbeke, V. B Duthon, N. MagnenatThalmann, P. Hoffmeyer, J. Menetrey, C.D. Becker, Extreme Hip Motion in Professional Ballet Dancers: Dynamic and Morphological Evaluation Based on Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Skeletal radiology, vol. 42, Issue 5, pp. 689-698, May 2013. 

P. Chiang, J.M. Zheng, K.H. Mak, N. MagnenatThalmann, and Y.Y. Cai, Progressive Surface Reconstruction for Heart Mapping Procedure, Computer-aided Design, Elsevier, vol. 44, pp. 289–299, 2012.

C. Charbonnier, F.C. Kolo, V.B. Duthon and N. MagnenatThalmann, C.D. Becker, P. Hoffmeyer and J. Menetrey, Semi-Supervised Biased Maximum Margin Analysis for SVM Relevance Feedback in Image Retrieval, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2011.

J. Schmid, J. Kim and N. MagnenatThalmann, Robust Statistical Shape Models for MRI Bone Segmentation in Presence of Small Field of View, Medical Image Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 15, pp. 155-168, 2011.

C. Charbonnier, F.C. Kolo, V.B. Duthon, N. MagnenatThalmann, C.D. Becker, P. Hoffmeyer, and J. Menetrey, Assessment of Congruence and Impingement of the Hip Joint in Professional Ballet Dancers- A Motion Capture Study, American Journal of Sports Medicine, vol. 39, pp.557-566, December 15, 2010. 

C. Charbonnier, N. MagnenatThalmann, C.D. Becker, P. Hoffmeyer and J. Menetrey, An Integrated Platform for Hip Joint Osteoarthritis Analysis: Design, Implementation and Results, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, Springer -Verlag, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 351-358, July 2010.

B. Gilles and N. MagnenatThalmann, Musculoskeletal MRI Segmentation Using Multi-resolution Simplex Meshes with Medial Representations, Medical Image Analysis, Elsevier, vol.14, pp. 291-302, 2010.

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