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Julien Pettré is affiliated with the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) in France. Their research spans multiple areas within engineering and computer science, with a concentration on evacuation and crowd dynamics. They have contributed extensively to topics such as traffic control and management, virtual reality applications and impacts, and traffic and road safety.

Their work covers several subfields of study including ocean engineering, control and systems engineering, computer vision and pattern recognition, human-computer interaction, and social psychology.

Frequent publication venues for Julien Pettré include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Computer Graphics Forum
  • Computers & Graphics
  • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)

Julien Pettré's research is often collaborative. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Anne-Hélène Olivier
  • Ludovic Hoyet
  • Cécile Appert-Rolland
  • Katja Zibrek
  • Thomas Chatagnon

Recent papers by Julien Pettré include:

  • "Algorithms for Microscopic Crowd Simulation: Advancements in the 2010s" (2021, Computer Graphics Forum)
  • "The Effect of Gender and Attractiveness of Motion on Proximity in Virtual Reality" (2020, ACM Transactions on Applied Perception)
  • "GREIL-Crowds: Crowd Simulation with Deep Reinforcement Learning and Examples" (2023, ACM Transactions on Graphics)
  • "Crowd Navigation in VR: Exploring Haptic Rendering of Collisions" (2020, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics)
  • "Eye-Gaze Activity in Crowds: Impact of Virtual Reality and Density" (2020, 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR))

The range of Julien Pettré's research topics mainly involves:

  • Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
  • Traffic control and management
  • Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
  • Traffic and Road Safety
  • Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
  • Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety
  • Human Motion and Animation

Best Publications

  • A synthetic-vision based steering approach for crowd simulation

    Jan Ondřej;Julien Pettré;Anne-Hélène Olivier;Stéphane Donikian

  • Pedestrian Reactive Navigation for Crowd Simulation: a Predictive Approach

    Sébastien Paris;Julien Pettré;Stéphane Donikian

  • Traffic instabilities in self-organized pedestrian crowds.

    Mehdi Moussaïd;Elsa G. Guillot;Mathieu Moreau;Jérôme Fehrenbach

  • Social Ways: Learning Multi-Modal Distributions of Pedestrian Trajectories With GANs

    Javad Amirian;Jean-Bernard Hayet;Julien Pettre

  • Experiment-based modeling, simulation and validation of interactions between virtual walkers

    Julien Pettré;Jan Ondřej;Anne-Hélène Olivier;Armel Cretual

  • Parameter estimation and comparative evaluation of crowd simulations

    D. Wolinski;S. J. Guy;A.-H. Olivier;M. Lin

  • Real-time navigating crowds: Scalable simulation and rendering

    Julien Pettré;Pablo de Heras Ciechomski;Jonathan Maïm;Barbara Yersin

  • An Efficient Acyclic Contact Planner for Multiped Robots

    Steve Tonneau;Andrea Del Prete;Julien Pettre;Chonhyon Park

  • A 2-stages locomotion planner for digital actors

    Julien Pettré;Jean-Paul Laumond;Thierry Siméon

  • Animation planning for virtual characters cooperation

    Claudia Esteves;Gustavo Arechavaleta;Julien Pettré;Jean-Paul Laumond

  • Realistic following behaviors for crowd simulation

    S. Lemercier;A. Jelic;R. Kulpa;J. Hua

  • Collision avoidance between two walkers: Role-dependent strategies

    Anne-Hélène Olivier;Anne-Hélène Olivier;Antoine Marin;Armel Crétual;Armel Crétual;Alain Berthoz

  • Crowd patches: populating large-scale virtual environments for real-time applications

    Barbara Yersin;Jonathan Maïm;Julien Pettré;Daniel Thalmann

  • Virtual proxemics: Locomotion in the presence of obstacles in large immersive projection environments

    Ferran Argelaguet Sanz;Anne-Helene Olivier;Gerd Bruder;Julien Pettre

  • A Hierarchy of Heuristic-Based Models of Crowd Dynamics

    Pierre Degond;Cecile Appert-Rolland;Cecile Appert-Rolland;Mehdi Moussaïd;Julien Pettré

  • Going Through, Going Around: A Study on Individual Avoidance of Groups

    Julien Bruneau;Anne-Helene Olivier;Julien Pettre

  • Properties of pedestrians walking in line. II. Stepping behavior.

    Asja Jelić;Cécile Appert-Rolland;Samuel Lemercier;Julien Pettré

  • Joyman: A human-scale joystick for navigating in virtual worlds

    Maud Marchal;Julien Pettre;Anatole Lecuyer

  • Animation planning for virtual characters cooperation

    Claudia Esteves;Gustavo Arechavaleta;Julien Pettré;Jean-Paul Laumond

  • WarpDriver: context-aware probabilistic motion prediction for crowd simulation

    David Wolinski;Ming C. Lin;Julien Pettré

  • Kinematic Evaluation of Virtual Walking Trajectories

    G. Cirio;A. Olivier;M. Marchal;J. Pettre

  • Real-time navigating crowds: scalable simulation and rendering: Research Articles

    Julien Pettré;Pablo de Heras Ciechomski;Jonathan Maïm;Barbara Yersin

  • Gradient-based steering for vision-based crowd simulation algorithms

    T. B. Dutra;R. Marques;R. Marques;J.B. Cavalcante-Neto;C. A. Vidal

  • Algorithms for Microscopic Crowd Simulation: Advancements in the 2010s

    Wouter van Toll;Julien Pettré

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Paul Laumond
Jean-Paul Laumond École Normale Supérieure
Daniel Thalmann
Daniel Thalmann École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Anatole Lécuyer
Anatole Lécuyer French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA
Ming C. Lin
Ming C. Lin University of Maryland, College Park
Dinesh Manocha
Dinesh Manocha University of Maryland, College Park
Eric Marchand
Eric Marchand University of Rennes
Nicolas Mansard
Nicolas Mansard Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems
Marie-Paule Cani
Marie-Paule Cani École Polytechnique
Maud Marchal
Maud Marchal French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA
Søren Rysgaard
Søren Rysgaard Aarhus University

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