Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European & International Initiatives

PASSPORT (06/2008-05/2011)

Participants : Guillaume Bousquet, François Faure.

The PASSPORT for Liver Surgery project (http://www.passport-liver.eu/Homepage.html ) deals with the objectives of the Virtual Physiological Human ICT-2007.5.3 objective. PASSPORT's aim is to develop patient-specific models of the liver which integrates anatomical, functional, mechanical, appearance, and biological modelling. To these static models, PASSPORT will add dynamics liver deformation modelling and deformation due to breathing, and regeneration modelling providing a patient specific minimal safety standardized FLR. These models, integrated in the Open Source framework SOFA, will culminate in generating the first multi-level and dynamic Virtual patient-specific liver allowing not only to accurately predict feasibility, results and the success rate of a surgical intervention, but also to improve surgeons? training via a fully realistic simulator, thus directly impacting upon definitive patient recovery suffering from liver diseases.

The final review was held in December in Strasbourg. Our deliverables were delivered in time.

IRIS Network of Excellence (2009-2011)

Participant : Rémi Ronfard.

The IRIS (Integrating Research in Interactive Storytelling) Network of Excellence (NoE) started its work in January 2009, as a new EC-funded initiative (under FP7’s Intelligent Content and Semantics).

The IRIS network include work packages on Narrative Formalisms; Artificial Intelligence Tools and Techniques; Authoring Tools and Creation Methods; Hybrid Intelligent Virtual Actors; Cinematography; Interaction and Dialogue. As part of the work package on cinematography, we proposed a computational framework for film editing suitable for interactive storytelling applications. The model has been implemented in a collaboration with the Bunraku/Mimetic team and demonstrated to IRIS project members.

SHARE INRIA Associate Teams (2009-2011)

Participants : Adrien Bernardt, Marie-Paule Cani, François Faure, Damien Rohmer.

SHARE is a joint associate with the INRIA project BIPOP, which funds collaborations with the University of Vancouver. It brings together researchers with complementary expertise in geometric modeling, computer graphics, mechanics, robotics, control, neuroscience and perception, and who aim to jointly tackle key elements of modeling and animation of humans and animals interacting with their environment. The project had three foci: 1) designing enriched geometric and mechanical models for the shape and motion of soft tissues, skin, cloth and hair; 2) improving existing models of human and animal motion; and 3) modeling interaction between moving creatures and complex, realistic environments.

Visits of International Scientists

Alla Scheffer visited EVASION team for 6 months.