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Paper submission due:
February 15, 2027
Paper acceptance due:
March 15, 2027
Registration deadline:
April 15, 2027
Conference date:
May 21-23, 2027
Organizer:
Dalian Jiaotong University
In Association With
Beijing University of Technology
Chengdu University of Information Technology
School of Electrical Engineering and Information, SouthWest Petroleum University
School of Software, Nanchang Hangkong University
Key Laboratory of Jiangxi Province for Image Processing and Pattern Recognition
General Chair:
Ljiljana Trajković, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Vijayakumar Varadarajan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Co-Chair:
Jun Liu, Chengdu University of Information Technology, China
Shunli Wang, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, China
Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Sos S. Agaian, City University of New York, USA
Yu-Dong Zhang, Southeast University, China
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Daniel Thalmann
Prof. Daniel Thalmann is an internationally renowned scientist and a pioneer in the fields of Virtual Humans, Virtual Reality, Computer Graphics, and Crowd Simulation. He currently serves as Honorary Professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, and Director of Research and Development at MIRALab Sàrl. He is the founder of the Virtual Reality Laboratory at EPFL and has made pioneering contributions to digital humans, intelligent virtual environments, and immersive interactive systems. Prof. Thalmann received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Geneva in 1977. He has held academic positions at internationally recognized institutions, including EPFL and the University of Montreal, and has served as visiting professor at several leading universities worldwide. He has published more than 600 scientific papers and over 30 books in computer graphics, virtual reality, animation, and simulation, with his research widely recognized in the fields of virtual human modeling, autonomous agents, and crowd simulation. Prof. Thalmann is the recipient of numerous international honors, including the Eurographics Distinguished Career Award, the CGI Career Achievement Award, and the Canadian Human Computer Communications Society Achievement Award. He has served as editor, editorial board member, and chair of numerous international journals and conferences. His pioneering work has significantly influenced emerging areas such as digital humans, human–computer interaction, and embodied intelligence.