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soft articulated bodies, non linear solver, plugin SOFA-Maya

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Michael Adam received the engineering degree from The Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France, in 2006. Specialized in Image, Interaction and virtual reality, he is also known as the first external SOFA user, when he worked in the TIMC lab, Grenoble, France. His skills allowed him to joined the SOFA team in EVASION lab at the end of 2006. Here he did the Maya revolution, by integrating SOFA in the most famous 3D software. He his currently working on articulated rigid objects and particularly on physically based character animation. For more information, check Michael's web page.

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Topology changes during real­-time simulation; Cutting of 2D deformable objects; Resection of 3D deformable objects; Topological mappings

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Barbara André graduated from ENSIMAG ("Ecole Normale Supérieure en Informatique et Mathématiques Appliquées" in Grenoble), and spent the third year of engineering school on exchange at the University of Waterloo, Canada. In September 2007, she joined for one year the SOFA team, in the ASCLEPIOS lab, as an engineer on the topology changes module. She is currently doing a PhD thesis in medical imaging, working on endomicroscopic image retrieval to support the early diagnosis of gastrointestinal cancers. This work is in collaboration between the company Mauna Kea Technologies in Paris, and the research laboratory ASCLEPIOS at INRIA - Sophia Antipolis.

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Collision Detection and Response using the GPU; Contact Modeling using Constraints; Directed Acyclic Graphs; GUI and Ogre viewer

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Florent Falipou received both an engineering degree from the ENSIMAG (Ecole Nationale Superieure en Informatique et Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble), and from the UFRGS (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), a Brazilian university where he completed a one year and a half exchange. His main domains of interest are Image Processing, and Virtual reality. He entered the famous SOFA team in April of 2007, and is now a full-time engineer, integrating new components, answering users' questions, and maintaining the Subversion repository.

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Subject-specific modeling, non-linear finite element models

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web page

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Parallele computing, GPU

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Everton Hermann received the degree of Bachelor in Computer Science from the UFSM (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria), Brazil. He completed one year of exchange at the ENSIMAG (Ecole Nationale Superieure en Informatique et Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble), France and obtained his Master degree from the UFRGS (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Brazil. His main domain of interest is High Performance Computing. He entered the SOFA team in November 2006, as a PhD student on large parallel virtual reality applications in EVASION(LJK) and MOAIS(LIG) teams and works mainly on SOFA parallelization.

Stable Cutting of Deformable Objects using Embedded Deformable Models

Multiresolution mechanical model for soft body, interactive animation

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Topology changes during real­-time simulation; Cutting of 2D deformable objects; Interactive real-time simulation of radiofrequency ablation and heart valve replacement

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Erik Pernod received his engineering degree from the Institut des Sciences de l'Ingénieur de Toulon et du Var in 2008, where he studied numerical modelling and analysis. To direct his domain of activity toward image processing, he joined the Asclepios team of the INRIA of Sophia-Antipolis where he first worked for the NeuroLOG project as intern and now as full-time engineer for the SOFA project. For more information, check Erik's web page.