Virtual Human Interface Group


Papers and Publications

(in press)

Csukly, G., P. Czobor, L. Simon, B. Takács (200x), Basic Emotions and Psychological Distress: Association Between Recognition of Facial Expressions and Symptom Checklist-90 Subscales, Comprehensive Psychiatry, YCOMP-50405

Takács, B. (2008), How and Why Affordable Virtual Reality Shapes the Future of Education, International Journal of Virtual Reality, 2008, 7(1), pp. 53-66.


(2008)

Simon, L., B. Takács, B. P. Czobor (2008), Virtual Reality Therapy: Clinical Studies of Phobic Patients (in Hungarian) MPT08, Feb 23-26, Sopron, Hungary.

Takács, B., L. Simon P. (2008), Rehabilitation Techniques Using Virtual Reality (in Hungarian) MPT08, Feb 23-26, Sopron, Hungary.

Donauer, N., G. Gyengési, V. Fáy, A. Kontra, B. Takács (2008), Treating Visual Neglect Syndrome with the Help of Virtual Reality: A Clinical Study (in Hungarian) MPT08, Feb 23-26, Sopron, Hungary.

Takács, B. K. Vosburg (2008), Compact Anatomically Guided Ultrasound for Casualty Care, ACHI08, Feb 10-15, St. Luce, Martinique.


(2007)

Takács, B., D. Hanák (2007), A Mobile System for Assisted Living with Ambient Facial Interfaces, Intl. Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems 2(2), pp. 33-50

Takács, B., D. Hanák (2007), Monitoring the Elderly using Mobile Platforms, MST News., No. 6, pp. 36-37

Takács, B. D. Hanák, (2007), Robots in the Home Assisting the Elderly, RCEAS Nov 22-24, Budapest, Hungary.

Hanák, D., G. Meszáros-Komáromy, G. Szijártó, B. Takács,(2007), Compliance Monitoring for Assisted Living Using Mobile Platforms, SEA07, Nov 19 - 21, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Takács, B. G. Szijártó, D. Hanák, (2007), Constant Rate Visualization of Large Anatomical Models for Medical Guidance, GRAFGEO07, Nov 13-14, Budapest, Hungary.

Dobson, L. D. Hanák, B. Takács, (2007), Traffic Sign Detection Using Gabor Features and Support Vector Machines, GRAFGEO07, Nov 13-14, Budapest, Hungary.

Takács, B. L. Sadovnik, G. Szijarto (2007), Radar Volume Visualization, GRAFGEO07, Nov 13-14, Budapest, Hungary.

Takács, B.(2007), BabyTeach: Using Ambient Facial Interfaces for Interactive Education, ERCIM News, Technology-Enhanced Learning

Takács, B. (2007), PanoMOBI: A Panoramic Mobile Entertainment System, ICEC07, Sept 15-17, Shanghai, China.

Vosburgh, K. G. , J. Stoll, V. Noble, K. Pohl, R.S.J. Estepar, B. Takács (2007), Compact Anatomically Guided Ultrasound for Combat Casualty Care, ATACC August, 13-15, St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA.

Hanák, D., G. Szijártó, B. Takács (2007), A Wireless Approach to Ambient Assisted Living, MCCSIS July 3-8, Lisbon, Portugal.

Takács, B., A. Beregszászi, G. Mészáros-Komáromy (2007), PanoCAST - A Panoramic Multicasting System for Mobile Entertainment, IV07, July 4-7, Zurich, Switzerland.

Takács, B., L. Simon (2007), A Clinical Virtual Reality Rehabilitation System for Phobia Treatment, IV07, July 4-7, Zurich, Switzerland.

Pohl, K., S. Pieper, K. Vosburgh, B. Takács (2007), Image Registered FAST (IRFAST) for Combat Casualty Triage, SLICER / NAMIC

Donauer, N., E. Boros, B. Takács (2007), Cognitive Rehabilitation of Patients with Neglect Syndrome with CyberTherapy, CyberTherapy, June 11-14, Washington DC., USA.

Simon, L. B. Takács (2007), Treating Anxiety Disorders in Spherical Virtual Video Environments), CyberTherapy, June 11-14, Washington DC., USA.

Takács, B. (2007), A multi-Purpose CyberTherapy Rehabilitation System and its Applications for Clinical Treatment, Laval Virtual, April 18-20 Laval, France.

Hanák, D., G. Szijártó, A. Beregszászi, G. Mészáros-Komáromy, B. Takács (2007), Building a Panoramic Spherical Video Recording and Presentation System for Telepresence, Laval Virtual, April 18-20 Laval, France.

Donauer, N., G. Gyengési, E. Apró, G. B. Takács (2007), Virtual Reality Training in Neurorehabilitation ORFMMT, March 24, Szentgothárd, Hungary. (in Hungarian).

Takács, B., L. Simon (2007), Advantages of Panoramic Video over 3D Models for Treating Phobias and Anxiety Disorders, XIII.th Annual Conference of the Hungarian Psychiatric Association, Miskolc, Hungary. (in Hungarian).

Simon, L. B. Takács (2007), Fear of Flying: Treatment Using High Fidelity Virtual Environments, XIII.th Annual Conference of the Hungarian Psychiatric Association, Miskolc, Hungary. (in Hungarian).


(2006)

Takács, B. (2006), Cognitive, Mental and Physical Rehabilitation Using a Configurable Virtual Reality System , Intl. Journal of Virtual Reality, 5(4): pp. 1-12

Takács, B., P. Corsi (2006), From Knowledge to Business: Virtual Encounters Propagate Innovation, in Innovation Engineering; The Power of Intangible Networks , Lavoisier-Hermens Science Publishing, Paris & London.

Takács, B., H. Wechsler (2006),Chapter 8 in Reliable Face Recognition Methods Applied Modern Pattern Recognition , Springer

Takács, B. (2006), Cyber Care Clinique: A Multi-Purpose Virtual Reality System for Rehabilitation, , CentralEuropean Multimedia and Virtual Reality Conference, Eger, Hungary.

Takács, B. (2006), BabyTeach: A Virtual Tutoring System for Education, , CentralEuropean Multimedia and Virtual Reality Conference, Eger, Hungary.

Csukly, G., Takács, B. (2006), Assessing Affect and Facial Expression Recognition Abilities Using Virtual Faces: A Clinical Study, , CentralEuropean Multimedia and Virtual Reality Conference, Eger, Hungary.

Takács, B. (2006), Building Reactive and Emotionally Responsive Virtual Children for Edutainment and Interactive Art, 10th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV06), London, England.

Takács, B. (2006), Dawn of a New Era: Virtual Reality-based Education Using Low-Cost Input/Output Devices, 3rd International Conference on BioMedical Visualization, London, England.


(2005)

Takács, B. (2005), Special Education & Rehabilitation: Teaching and Healing with Interactive Graphics, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Special Issue on Computer Graphics in Education, Sept/Oct.

Takács, B. (2005), Affective Intelligence: A Novel User Interface Paradigm, 1st Int. Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction, Beijing, China.

Csukly, G., L. Simon, B. Kiss, B. Takács (2004), Evaluating Psychiatric Patients Using High Fidelity Animated Faces, Proc. of World Psychiatric Association International Congress - Treatments in Psychiatry: an update. Florence, Italy.

(2004)

Takács, B. B. Kiss (2004), Virtual Human Information Kiosk: a Perceptive & Intelligent Digital Agent, CGVI04, Penang, Malaysia.

Kiss, B. B. Benedek, G. Szijarto, B. Takács (2004), Believable Intelligent Agent: Face-to-Face Interaction with a Digital Human in a Virtual Environment, 1st Central European International Multimedia and Virtual Reality Conference, Veszprem, Hungary

Benedek, B., G. Szijarto, B. Takács, B. Kiss (2004), Closed Loop Dialog Model of Face-to-Face Communication with a Photo-Real Virtual Human, SPIE Electronic Imaging Reality Conference, Visual Communications and Image Processing, San Jose, CA, USA.

Csukly G, L. Simon, B. Benedek, G. Szijarto, B. Kiss, B. Takács (2004), Evaluating Psychiatric Patients Using High Fidelity Animated 3D Faces, CyberTherapy, San Diego, CA, USA.

Kiss, B., B. Benedek, G. Szijarto, G. Csukly, L. Simon, B. Takács (2004), The Virtual Patient: A Photo-real Virtual Human for VR-based Therapy, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality, Newport Beach, CA, USA.

Takács, B., S. Pieper, J. Cebral (2004), Facial Modeling for Plastic Surgery Using Magnetic Resonance Imagery, SPIE Electronic Imaging Reality Conference, The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality, San Jose, CA, USA.


Takács, B., B. Kiss (2004), The Virtual Human Interface: A Photo-realistic Digital Human, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Special Issue on Perceptual Multimodal Interfaces, Sept/Oct.

Kiss, B., G. Szijarto, B. Benedek, L. Simon, G. Csukly, B. Takács (2004), CyberTherapy: Applications of Virtual Reality and Digital Humans in Clinical Psychology, 2nd Intl. Conf on Computer Animation and Geometric Modeling, Budapest, Hungary.

(2003 and before)

Kiss, B. B.Takács, G.Szijártó (2003), Integrated Virtual Human Interface System with Portable Virtual Reality Capability, Virtual Reality Conference, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Omedas, P., F. Berrizbeitia, G.Szijártó, B. Takács (2002), Virtual Human Interface: Towards Building an Intelligent Animated Agent, SIGGRAPH Sketches, San Antonio, TX, USA.

Kiss, B., G.Szijártó, Takács, B. (2002), Model-based Facial Animation for Mobile Communication, Ibero-American Symposium on Computer Graphics, Guimarăes, Portugal.

Szijarto, G. B. Kiss, B. Takács (2002), Model-based Real-time Facial Animation: Design and Implementation, 2nd Intl. Conf on Computer Animation and Geometric Modeling, Budapest, Hungary.



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Related TV, Radio and Press (in Hungarian)

Robot Nurse - Health monitoring in the future Hazipatika.com (Nov, 2007)

Perfect Home Therapy - Modern home health care systems have a great future Metro (Oct, 2007)

AmDemo 2007 - Mobile home health care system Híradó, MTV1 (Jun, 2007)

Ambient Assited Living Home Care System MTV2 (Apr, 2007)

The Future of Virtual Reality in Medicine Netidők, Petőfi (Apr, 2007)

Virtual Homo Sapiens Agent Portal (March, 2007)

Virtual TeleMedicine and Rehabilitation for the Elderly Orient Press (Feb, 2007)

Virtual Reality Therapy Digitális, Kossuth (Feb, 2007)

Virtual Human Interface MTV2 Infogenerációk (Jan, 2007)

TeleMedicine in Your Livingroom INDEX (Feb 2007)

Virtual Reality Medicine VirMED

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Lectures & Demonstrations

Takács, B. (2006), Virtual Reality: Past, Present, Future, John von Neumann Conference, Győr, Hungary.

Takács, B. (2006), Metaverse RoadMap: Pathways to the 3D Web, Crowne Plaza Cabana, Palo Alto, CA, USA.

Takács, B., (2006), Future Salon, University of Southern Califronia (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA


Salacz P., É. Jekkel, G. Csukly, É. Csibri, I. Pataky (2006), Computer-based Screening of Dementia and Mild Cognitive Disorders, SOTE, Budapest, Hungary.

Takács, B. (2006), SNOW CRASH: Virtual Reality Goes Real!, L.A. SIGGRAPH Chapter, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Takács, B. (2005), Using Advanced Facial Animation, Digital Perception and Closed-loop Dialogues to Interact with People, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Kaiserslautern, Germany

Takács, B. (2005), Virtual Human Interface: Combining Virtual Reality, Advanced Facial Animation and Computer Vision to Address Real-World Tasks, NASA JPL, Pasadena, CA, USA.

Takács, B. (2005), Operating Room of the Future: Cyber Reality Demonstration, Harvard Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

Simon, L., V. Simon, B. Takács (2005), Experiences Using Virtual Reality (VR) Therapy for Psychiatric Care, Magyar Pszichiatriai Tarsasag Jubileumi Vandorgyulese, Budapest, Hungary

Takács, B. (2005), Virtual Patients: from Image Guided Therapy to CyberPsychology, Harvard SPL BWH, Boston, MA, USA

Takács, B. (2004), Real-time Virtual Humans: GET A LIFE!, L.A. SIGGRAPH Chapter, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Takács, B. (2003), The Future of Virtual Reality: Principles, Design, Implementation and Applications, European Commission IST, Brussels, Belgium.

Takács, B. (2003), Past, Present and Future Applications of Computer Graphics and Animation, John Von Neumann Centennial Year, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.

Takács, B. (2003), Innovations in Facial & Body Animation: The Virtual Human Interface, ISI Center for Advanced Research in Technology for Education (CARTE), Marina del Rey, CA, USA.

Takács, B. (2003), Art and Entertainment: Innovations in Facial Animation, Department of Design/Media Arts, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Takács, B. (2002), Innovations in Facial Animation: Modeling, Control, Animation and Delivery, L.A. SIGGRAPH Chapter, Los Angeles, CA, USA.