Research themes at ISIA Lab: Gesture, Movement, and 3D

Motion Capture

Experts:

Prof. T. Dutoit, Dr. S. Laraba, Dr. M. Mancas, Dr. V. Vandenbulcke

Research challenges
Capturing Tai-Chi movements with the Qualisys system
  • ith Markers
    • Inertial : Xsens
    • Optical : Optitrack, Qualisys
  • Markerless
    • Kinect V1 et V2
    • Leap Motion
    • OpenPose (2D – 3D)
PhD Theses
  • Dr. Alexis Moinet
  • Dr. Jerome Urban
  • Dr. Christian Frisson
  • Dr. Mathilde Brousmiche
Projects
  • FEDER/DigiSENSE
  • WALLINOV/ParkAR

 

Motion Analysis

Experts:

Prof. T. Dutoit, Prof. S. Dupont, Dr. S. Laraba, Dr. M. Mancas

Research challenges
Analyzing music and dance movements with MotionMachine
  • Obtaining gesture descriptors
  • Automatic filtering and cleaning of mocap data
  • Analyzing style/emotion in body movements
PhD Theses
  • Dr. Mickael Tits
Projects
  • EU-FP7/ Itreasures
  • MotionMachine
  • RW/WallInnov/ParkAR

 

Gesture Recognition

Experts:

Prof. T. Dutoit, Dr. S. Laraba

Research challenges
Recognizing a selfie gesture
  • Automatic gesture recognition from 2D or 3D skeleton data
  • Explainable AI
  • Automatic captioning of soccer videos
PhD Theses
  • Dr. Sohaib Laraba
Projects

 

 

 

Motion Synthesis

Experts:

Prof. T. Dutoit, Dr. S. Laraba

Research challenges
Pruning Deep Learning in Interactive Motion Generation and Control
  • Automatic motion synthesis from control signals
  • Synthesis quality assessment
  • Style transfer
PhD Theses
  • Antoine Maiorca

 

 

 

Smart Spaces

Experts:

Prof. T. Dutoit, Dr. S. Laraba

Research challenges
Multiple user collaboration in VR parks
  • Indoor geolocalization and tracking
  • Analysis of social interactions
  • Multi-User collaboration in VR
  • Defining relational categories in Museal visit experience
  • Activity analysis in classrooms
PhD Theses
  • Ratha Siv
  • Marine Lagasse
  • François Rocca
Projects
  • Win2Wal/SmartVRPark
  • Beware/ViewSkyModel

 

3D vision

Experts:
Depthmap obtained automatically from a 2D image

Prof. B. Gosselin, Dr. M. Mancas, Dr. V. Vandenbulcke

Research challenges
  • SLAM-based 3D reconstruction
  • Depth prediction from 2D images
  • Drone-based Anomaly detection
  • Edge-based, Explainable Deep learning for real time action detectionand prediction
PhD Theses
  • Dr. Ambroise Moreau
  • Mohammed El Amine Mokhtari
  • Mohammed Benkedadra
Projects
  • Beware/ViewSkyModel
  • Win2Wal/DroneSecurity
  • PPP/Infrabel