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Results from the GATE research project
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Research themes:
Theme 1: Modeling the virtual World
Theme 2: Virtual characters
Theme 3: Interacting with the world
Theme 4: Learning with simulated worlds

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Enriching Geo-Specific Terrain
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Semantic Building Blocks for Declarative Virtual World Creation 
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Acknowledgement

 ICTRegie is a compact, independent organisation consisting of a Supervisory Board, an Advisory Council, a director and a bureau. The Minister of Economic Affairs, and the Minister of Education, Culture and Science bear the political responsibility for ICTRegie. The organisation is supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and SenterNovem.

Interacting with the world

Publications WP 3.1  Animating Navigation and Manipulation

Publications WP 3.2 Detecting, interpreting and affecting user behavior

Publications WP 3.3 Brain Connection Devices

 

Publications WP 3.1 Animating Navigation and Manipulation

Ben van Basten, Motion Synthesis Techniques for Navigation and Manipulation Tasks. Thesis approved by assessment committee.

J. Allbeck, P. Faloutsos, T. Komura (Eds.). (2011). Motion in Games 2011. Heidelberg: Springer Verlag.

Basten, BJH van; Egges, A. Motion Transplantation Techniques: a Survey. Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE, to appear.

Basten, BJH van; Egges, A. Flexible Splicing of Upper]Body Motion Spaces on Locomotion. Computer Graphics Forum 30(7). pp 1963-1971. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2011.

Basten, B.J.H. van, Egges, A. & Geraerts, R.J. (2011). Combining Path Planners and Motion Graphs. In Vol. 22. Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (pp. 59-78). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd..

Cheong, J.S., Kruger, H. & Stappen, A.F. van der (2011). Output-Sensitive Computation of Force-Closure Grasps of a Semi-Algebraic Object. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 8(3), 495-505.

Basten, B.J.H. van, Stüvel, S.A. & Egges, A. (2011). A hybrid interpolation scheme for footprint-driven walking synthesis. In Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2011 (pp. 9-16). ACM.

Kruger, H. & Stappen, A.F. van der (2011). Partial Closure Grasps: Metrics and Computation. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (pp. 5024-5030). IEEE.

Kruger, H., Rimon, E. & Stappen, A.F. van der (2012). Local Force Closure, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2012), St. Paul, MN, May 14-18, 2012 (to appear)

Kruger, H. & Stappen, A.F. van der (2012). Independent Contact Regions for Local Force Closure Grasps. Submitted for Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR).

B.J.H. van Basten, A. Egges, R. Geraerts, Combining Path Planners and Motion Graphs, Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (CAVW), 2011 (to appear).

H. Kruger, A.F. van der Stappen, Partial Closure Grasps: Metrics and Computation, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2011), Shanghai, China, May 9-13, 2011 (to appear).

R. Boulic, Y. Chrysanthou, T. Komura (Eds.). (2010). Motion in Games 2010. Heidelberg: Springer Verlag.

H. van Welbergen, B.J.H. van Basten, A. Egges, Zs. Ruttkay, M.H. Overmars, Real Time Character Animation: on Naturalness and Control, Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), 2010.

A. Egges, B.J.H. van Basten, One Step at a Time: Animating Virtual Characters based on Foot Placement. The Visual Computer, 2010, Special issue of selected papers from Computer Graphics International 2010 (CGI 2010).

B.J.H. van Basten, P.W.A.M. Peeters, A. Egges, The StepSpace: Example-Based Footprint-Driven Motion Synthesis, Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (CAVW), 2010 , Special issue of selected papers from the 23rd Annual Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2010).

B.J.H. van Basten, S.A. Stüvel, A. Egges, Exact Parameterization for Footprint-driven Synthesis (poster), Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA 2010), Madrid, Spain, July 2-4, 2010.

H. van Welbergen, B.J.H. van Basten, A. Egges, Z.M. Ruttkay and M.H. Overmars - Real Time Animation of Virtual Humans: A Trade-off Between Naturalness and Control, Computer Graphics Forum, 29(8):2530-2554, ISSN 0167-7055, 2010. 

A. Egges, R. Geraerts and M. H. Overmars (Eds.). (2009). Motion in Games 2009. Heidelberg: Springer Verlag.

A. Egges, A. Kamphuis, and M. H. Overmars (Eds.). Special issue on gaming. Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds 20:5-6. Wiley, 2009.

B. J. H. van Basten and A. Egges. Path Abstraction for Combined Navigation and Manipulation. In A. Egges, R. Geraerts & M.H. Overmars (Eds.), Motion in Games, Second International Workshop, MIG 2009 (pp. 182-193). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.

A. Nijholt, A. Egges, H. van Welbergen and G.H.W. Hondorp (eds). Short Paper and Poster Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents, CTIT Workshop Proceedings, Centre for Telematics and Information Technology, University of Twente, Enschede, ISSN 0929-0672, 2009 

B.J.H. van Basten, Abstracting from Character Motion, Short Paper and Poster Proceedings of The Twenty-Second Annual Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents. Amsterdam, June 16-19, 2009.

W. van Tol and A. Egges. 3D Characters that are Moved to Tears. Short Paper and Poster Proceedings of The Twenty-Second Annual Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents Conference. Amsterdam, June 16-19, 2009.

A. Egges, W. Huerst, and R. C. Veltkamp (Eds.). Proceedings of the CASA workshop on 3D Advanced Media in Gaming and Simulation (3AMIGAS). Amsterdam, June 16-19, 2009.

A. Nijholt, A. Egges, and H. van Welbergen (Eds.). CASA2009 Special Issue.Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds 20:2-3. Wiley, 2009.

W. van Tol and A. Egges (2009). Real-time Crying Simulation. In IVA2009 (pp. 215-228).

A. Egges, A. Kamphuis, M. Overmars (Eds.), Motion in Games, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5277, Springer-Verlag, 2008.

A. Egges, Opening Doors in Motion Analysis Research. In Kamphuis A., Overmars M. Egges A. (Eds.), Proceedings Motion in Games 2008 Vol. 5277. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 192-203).

B.J.H. van Basten, A. Egges, Evaluation of Distance Metrics for Animation Blending, 4th International Conference on the Foundation of Digital Games, Port Canaveral, FL, United States, April 26-30, 2009.

H. van Welbergen, B. J. H. van Basten, A. Egges, Zs. Ruttkay and M. H. Overmars, Real Time Character Animation: A Trade-off Between Naturalness and Control, in State-of-the-Art-Report proceedings of Eurographics, Mark Pauly and Guenther Greiner (eds), Eurographics Association, Munich, Germany, ISSN 1017-4656, pp.45-72, 2009.

A. Egges, Analysis of human navigation and manipulation motions (extended abstract), Proceedings of Measuring Behavior 2008, 6th International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research, Maastricht, The Netherlands, August 26-29, 2008.

B.J.H. van Basten, Combining manipulation and navigation in virtual environments (extended abstract), Proceedings of Measuring Behavior 2008, 6th International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research, Maastricht, The Netherlands, August 26-29, 2008.

Publications WP 3.2 Detecting, interpreting and affecting user behavior

F. Huo. Vision-based 3D Human Motion Analysis in a Hierarchical Way. PhD thesis, Technical University Delft, 27 June 2013.

F. Huo and E. A. Hendriks, "Multiple people tracking and pose estimation with occlusion estimation", Computer Vision and Image Understanding Volume 116, Issue 5, May 2012, Pages 634-647.

Xinghan Luo, Robby T. Tan, Remco C. Veltkamp. "Multi-person Tracking Based on Vertical Reference Lines and Dynamic Visibility Analysis". IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2011. (Oral Paper)

Nico van der Aa, Xinghan Luo, Geert-Jan Giezeman, Robby T. Tan, Remco C. Veltkamp. "X Benchmark: a Multi-person Dataset with Synchronized Video and Motion Capture Data for Evaluation of Articulated Human Motion and Interaction". Workshop 2011. Proceedings of the Workshop on Human Interaction in Computer Vision (HICV), in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2011.

F. Huo, E. A. Hendriks and P. Paclik, "Detection tracking and recognition of human poses for real time applications," demo on 12th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS), 2011, April. 

N.P. van der Aa, X. Luo, G.J. Giezeman, R.T. Tan, and R.C. Veltkamp ,Utrecht Multi-Person Motion (MPM) Benchmark. Technical report UU-CS-2011-027, Utrecht University.

N.P. van der Aa, D.S. Grootendorst, B.F. Böggemann and R.T. Tan, Comments on 'Consistent Depth Maps Recovery from a Video Sequence'. Technical report UU-CS-2011-014, Utrecht University.

Xinghan Luo, Robby T Tan, Remco C. Veltkamp. "Dynamic Camera View Selection based on Human Body Part Visibility for Efficient Occlusion Handling". (in preparation).

Frank Evers. 2D Pose Estimation in the Restaurant of the Future. Master thesis, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University.

Willem-Jan Spoel. Hand-tracking based interactions for mobile devices. Master thesis, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University.

F. Huo and E. A. Hendriks, "Multiple People Tracking and Pose Estimation with Occlusion Estimation", IEEE Trans on Circuit and System for Video Technology (submitted).

F. Huo and E. A. Hendriks, "Real Time Multiple People Tracking and Pose Estimation," ACM MM Workshop on Multimodal Pervasive Video Analysis (MPVA'01), pp. 5-10, October, 2010.

F. Huo and E. A. Hendriks, "Multiple People Tracking and Pose Estimation," Conference of Advance School for Computing and Imaging (ASCI), November, 2010.

Tiemen Schreuder, Andre Redert, Emile Hendriks, "OTESC: Online Transformation Estimation between Stereo Cameras", ACM Multimedia Conference,  3DVP'10, October 29, 2010, Firenze, Italy.

Xinghan Luo, Berend Berendsen, Robby T. Tan, Remco C. Veltkamp. ‘Human Pose Estimation for Multiple Persons Based on Volume Reconstruction', pp 3591 - 3594, International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2010.

Javier Barbadillo Amor, "SINGLE PERSON POSE RECOGNITION AND TRACKING", Master Thesis June 2010, PRB group, Department of Mediamatics, EEMCS, Delft University of Technology

Tiemen Schreuder, "OTESC: Online Transformation Estimation between Stereo Cameras", Master Thesis December 2010, PRB group, Department of Mediamatics, EEMCS, Delft University of Technology.

Xinghan Luo, Robby Tan, Remco Veltkamp. ‘Multiple People Tracking Based on Dynamic Visibility Analysis', in Proc. ASCI 2010.

Rajat Anantharam, Background image subtraction using multi-view geometry for wide baseline image, Master thesis, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University.

Geerten Doornenbal, Volume reconstruction and its application to tracking multiple identical rodents, Master thesis, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University. 

F. Huo, E. A. Hendriks, P. Paclik, and A.H.J. Oomes, "Markerless human motion capture and pose recognition," International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, May 2009.

Arjan Egges, Wolfgang Hürst, Remco C. Veltkamp (Eds.). Proceedings of the CASA Workshop on 3D Advanced Media In Gaming And Simulation (3AMIGAS), June 2009, ISBN 978-90-393-5102-4.

Feifei Huo, Emile Hendriks, Stijn Oomes, Pascal van Beek, Remco Veltkamp. Detection Tracking and Recognition of Human Poses for a Real Time Spatial Game. In: Proceedings of the CASA Workshop on 3D Advanced Media In Gaming And Simulation (3AMIGAS), 2009, pp 43-52.

Berend Berendsen, Xinghan Luo, Wolfgang Hürst, Remco C. Veltkamp. Volumetric Modeling of 3D Human Pose from Multiple Video. In proceedings of the SAMT workshop on Semantic 3D Media (S-3D), 2008, 15-22Multiple Video.

Feifei Huo. People Detection and Tracking in Office Scenes with Occlusion. Master's thesis, TUD, Department of Computer Science, February 2008.

Berend Berendsen. Tracking and 3D body model fitting using multiple cameras. Master's thesis, UU, Department of Computer Science, INF/SCR-2007-066, July 2008.

Publications WP 3.3 Brain Connection Devices

Thurlings ME, Toward using Brain-Computer Interfaces for a large audience: Applying
brain signals to control computers and to improve HCI. PhD thesis.

Brouwer, A.-M, Hogervorst, M. A., van Erp, J. B. F., Heffelaar, T., Zimmerman, P. H., & Oostenveld, R. (2012). Estimating workload using EEG spectral power and ERPs in the n-back task. Journal of Neural Engineering.

Thurlings M.E., Van Erp J.B.F., Brouwer A.-M., Blankertz, B., Werkhoven P.J. (2012) Control-Display Mapping in Brain-Computer Interfaces. Ergonomics, Special Issue: Brain-ComputerInterfaces. In press (expected online: 27 Feb 2012), ID:661085.

Thurlings M.E., Brouwer A.-M., Van Erp J.B.F., Blankertz, B., Werkhoven P.J. Bimodal versus unimodal: Can visual-tactile ERP components increase BCI performance? Journal of Neural Engeneering, Special Issue. In Revision.

Thurlings M.E., Brouwer A.-M., Van Erp J.B.F., Werkhoven P.J. The effect of location congruency and attended modality on the bimodal ERP and BCI performance. In preparation.

Thurlings M.E., Van Erp J.B.F., Brouwer A.-M., Werkhoven P.J. Multitasking while using a BCI: The effect of workload on operating a BCI. In preparation.

Van Erp, J.B.F., Thurlings, M.E., Brouwer, A.-M., Werkhoven, P.J. (2011). BCIs in multimodal interaction and multitask environments: Theoretical issues and initial guidelines. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 6766 LNCS (PART 2), pp. 610-619.

Thurlings ME, Brouwer A-M, Van Erp JBF, Werkhoven P (2010). EEG-Based navigation from a Human Factors perspective. In: Tan DS and Nijholt A (eds.) (B+H)CI: The Human in Brain-Computer Interfaces and the Brain in Human-Computer Interaction. Springer LNCS.

Van Erp, J.B.F., Veltman, J.A., Grootjen, M.. (2010). Brain-Based Indices for User System Symbiosis. In: D.S. Tan & A. Nijholt (Eds.) Brain-Computer Interfaces, Human-Computer Interaction series, pp. 201-219. London: Spinger-Verlag.

Mühl, C., Gürkök, H., Plass-Oude Bos, D., Thurlings, M.E., Scherffig, L., Duvinage, M., Elbakyan, A.A., Kang, S., Poel, M., Heylen, D. Bacteria Hunt: Evaluating multi-paradigm BCI interaction (2010) Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, 4 (1), pp. 11-25.

Van Erp, J.B.F. (2010). BCIs for patients and healthy users: Two fundamentally different views illustrated by the ‘curve of normalcy'. International Journal of Bioelectromagnetism.

Coffey, E. B. J., Brouwer, A.-M., Wilschut, E. S. & Van Erp, J. B. F. (2010). Brain-Machine Interfaces in space: using spontaneous rather than intentionally generated brain signals. Acta Astronautica, 67, 1-11.

Brouwer, A.-M. & Van Erp, J. B. F. (2010). A tactile P300 brain-computer interface. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 4:19, 1-12.

Brouwer, A.-M., Van Erp, J. B. F., Aloise, F. & Cincotti, F. (2010). Tactile, Visual and Bimodal P300s: Could bimodal P300s boost BCI performance? SRX Neuroscience, 2010, 1-9.

Thurlings ME, Brouwer A-M, Van Erp JBF, Werkhoven P, Danóczy M , Blankertz B (in preparation). The effect of bimodal (visuo-tactile) stimulus preparation on event-related potentials and their spatiotemporal characteristics in a BCI-context.

Grootjen, M., Neerincx, M.A., Van Erp, J.B.F. & Veltman, J.A. (2010). Human-Computer Symbiosis by Mutual Understanding. Workshop Brain, Body and Bytes: Psychophysiological User Interaction. CHI 2010, April 10-15, 2010, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. ACM 978-1-60558-247-4/09/04.

Thurlings ME, Brouwer A-M, Van Erp JBF, Werkhoven P, Danóczy M , Blankertz B (2009) Navigation Based on P3s Elicited by Tactile Stimulation. BBCI workshop, Berlijn, 8-10 Juli 2009.

Van Erp JBF, Werkhoven P, Thurlings ME, Brouwer A-M (2009). Navigation with a passive brain based interface. Proceedings ICMI-MLMI 2009. Boston, November 2-6 2009. (Demo paper)

Thurlings ME, Brouwer A-M, Van Erp JBF, Werkhoven P (2009) SSVEPs for BCI? The effect of stimulus eccentricity on SSVEPs. Annual Meeting Society for Neuroscience, SfN, Chicago, 17-21 Oktober 2009.

Thurlings, M.E., Brouwer, A.-M., Van Erp, J., Werkhoven, P. Navigating in Virtual Environments using brain-signals. Presented at the Annual Meeting of Braingain, Boekelo November 2008.

Brouwer, A.-M., Van Erp, J., Thurlings, M.E., Aloise, F., Cincotti, F. Tactile, visual or bimodal P3's and Brain Machine Interfaces. Presented at the 4th International Brain-Computer Interface Workshop and Training Course 2008, Graz September 2008. (Best Poster award)

Van Erp, J., Brouwer, A.-M., Thurlings, M.E. Brain-Computer Interfaces. Presented at the day of knowledge (Kennismiddag) of TNO, Soesterberg September 2008.