A Tutorial on
Interactive Hair Modeling: Techniques and Challenges

Marie-Paule Cani is a Professor of Computer Science at the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), France. A graduate from the Ecole Normale Superieure, she received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Paris Sud in 1990 and the "habilitation" degree from INPG in 1995. She was nominated at the Institut Universitaire de France in 1999. She is the head of the INRIA research group EVASION which she created in 2003, and vice-director of the research lab GRAVIR (Computer GRAphics, Computer VIsion and Robotics), the joint lab of CNRS, INPG, INRIA and UJF to which EVASION belongs. Her main research interests cover physically-based simulation, implicit surfaces applied to interactive modelling and animation and the design of layered models incorporating alternative representations and LODs. Recent applications include pattern-based texturing, the animation of natural phenomena such as lava-flows, ocean, vegetation and human hair, real-time virtual surgery and interactive sculpting techniques.

She co-chaired the EUROGRAPHICS Workshops on Implicit Surfaces (1995) and Computer Animation and Simulation (2001), now respectively merged into IEEE Shape Modeling International (SMI) and the ACM-EG Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA). She was Paper co-Chair of EUROGRPAHICS 2004, Conference co-chair of SMI'2005, and is the paper co-chair of SCA'2006. She served in the program committees of an number of international conferences, including SIGGRAPH (2002 and 2005) and EUROGRAPHICS (1996 and 2003). She belongs to the editorial board of Graphical Models (Accademic Press) since 2001. She is the president of the French Chapter of EUROGRAPHICS, which she created in 2003.