COMMITTEE

Chair:

  • Olivier Balet, R&D Manager, Virtual Reality Department, Communication & Systemes Group, France
  • Gérard Subsol, Senior Researcher, LIA, University of Avignon, France
  • Patrice Torguet, Assistant Professor, Computer Graphics Dept., IRIT, University of Toulouse, France

    • Scientific Board:

  • Bruno Arnaldi, Research Director, SIAMES Project, IRISA Rennes, France
  • Eric Badiqué, Action Line Coordinator, European Commission, Belgium
  • Norman I. Badler, Director of the Center for Human Modeling and Simulation, University of Pennsylvania, USA
  • Andrew Berend, Director, Anthropics Technology Ltd., United Kingdom
  • Bruce Blumberg, Head of the Synthetic Characters Group, Media Lab, MIT, USA
  • Michael F. Cohen, Senior Researcher Manager, Graphics Group, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
  • Enrico Gobbetti, Head of the Visualization and Virtual Reality Group, CRS4, Italy
  • Martin Göbel, Head of the Virtual Environments Division, GMD, St Augustin, Germany
  • Alain Grumbach, Head of the Artificial Intelligence Group, Computer Science Department, ENST Paris, France
  • Barbara Hayes-Roth, Senior Research Scientist, Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Stanford University and CEO, Extempo Systems, USA
  • Ryohei Nakatsu, President and Director ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan
  • Philippe Quéau, Director of the Information Society Division, UNESCO, France
  • Paul Siebert, Director of the 3D-MATIC Laboratory, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
  • Kristian Simsarian, IDEO, San Francisco, USA
  • Frank Van Reeth, Deputy Managing Director, Expertise Centre for Digital Media, Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Belgium

    • Application Board:

  • Jean-Francis Balaguer, Scientific Director, Largeur, Switzerland
  • Maurice Benayoun, Art Director Z-A Productions, Paris, France
  • Franz Fischnaller, Art and Production Director, F.A.B.R.I.CATORS, Milano, Italy
  • Andrew Glassner, Writer Director, USA
  • Tran Anh Hung, Director, Vietnam
  • Paul Kafno, Director, HD Thames, United Kingdom
  • Mathieu Kassovitz, Director, Actor, France
  • Sally Jane Norman, General Director, Ecole Supérieure de l'Image, Angoulème/Poitiers, France
  • David Parfitt, Producer, Actor, United Kingdom
  • Ulrike Spierling, Head of the Digital Storytelling Department, ZGDV Computer Graphics Center, Darmstadt, Germany
  • Vittorio Storaro, Cinematographer, Italy

    • Programme Committee:

  • Edward Altman, Visiting Scientist, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore
  • Cynthia Breazeal, Postdoctoral Fellow, Sociable Machines Project, MIT, USA
  • Marc Cavazza, Professor of Intelligent Virtual Environments, School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Teesside, UK
  • Jean-Luc Dugelay, Research Associate, Multimedia Communications Dept., EURECOM Sophia Antipolis, France
  • John Funge, Lead Scientist, iKuni Inc., Palo Alto, USA
  • Petra Gemeinboeck, Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
  • Jonathan Gratch, Assistant Research Professor, University of Southern California, USA
  • Jean Pierre Jessel, Professor, Computer Graphics Dept., IRIT, France
  • Vali Lalioti, Associate Professor, University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa
  • Wim Lamotte, Professor, Expertise Centre for Digital Media, Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Belgium
  • Keith Miller, Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
  • Sina Mostafawy, Director, rmh, Köln, Germany
  • Jean Christophe Nebel, Research Associate, 3D-MATIC Laboratory, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
  • Tim Regan, Researcher, Social Computing Group, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
  • Agnès Saulnier, Senior Researcher, Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, France
  • Nikitas Sgouros, Lecturer, University of Piraeus, Greece
  • Danaë Stanton, Research Associate, CREDIT, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
  • Marie-Luce Viaud, Senior Researcher, Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, France
  • R. Michael Young, Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University,USA