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Three-Dimensional Analysis of Human Movement

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Origin:
In the late eighties, technology was booming, especially in computer hardware and real time data acquisition interfaces, resulting in a large number of video based three-dimensional kinematic systems. Though we could collect three-dimensional data (3-D), our interpretation and understanding of human motion was still greatly limited by our analysis of each separate plane (sagittal, frontal and sometimes horizontal)! At the same time, several issues related to data capture, image processing, three-dimensional reconstruction techniques, signal processing, robotics, virtual reality, etc. were being addressed and applied to biomechanical analysis. In 1989, Paul Allard (University of Montreal) and Jean-Pierre Blanchi (Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France) felt there was a need to bring together specialists from the mother sciences of biomechanics as well as human movement science researchers to present recent advances in technology and modeling and discuss how these contribute to our understanding of three-dimensional human motion.

 
Purpose:
The International Symposium on Three-Dimensional Analysis of Human Movement is a scientific and technical forum for investigators of human motion, whether their work is applied to the study of musculo-skeletal disability or disease, sport and elite performance, or basic studies of biomechanics or muscle physiology. In pursuit of this goal, the Symposium seeks the best scientific and social environments to generate further communication and contact between investigators in diverse areas and encourage discussions to cross the boundaries between scientific disciplines and specialties. The Symposium is directed at sharing information and results relating to philosophies for solving problems of measurement and analysis, rather than only delivering recent research study findings.

 
Philosophy:
To achieve better interaction between the participants, facilitate exchanges of opinion and most importantly integrate the knowledge from different but related fields of biomechanics, the International Symposium on Three-Dimensional Analysis of Human Movement must offer many and varied means of communication throughout the scientific and the social gatherings. The scientific program must allocate sufficient time to the discussion of papers either by discussion papers and by entertaining a general discussion following the presentation of a small number of papers. The plurality of keynote speakers must be specialists in fields lying outside biomechanics but whose expertise influence or will influence our thinking or our ways of carrying out research. There must be a forum enabling the direct participation of the audience to express their views on key issues related to human movement science. Manufacturers and makers of equipment must also participate by informing the scientific community of there recent technological advances as well there concern for the future so that commercial developments meet the needs of basic and applied research. This momentum must be sustained outside the scientific program by having equally varied and quality social activities. The meeting site, its environment and social gatherings should contribute largely to the scientific exchanges.

 
Meetings and organization:
The first International Symposium on Three-Dimensional Analysis of Human Movement was held in
Montreal, Canada, in 1991. This meeting was co-organized by Paul Allard, University of Montreal, Montreal (Canada) and Jean-Pierre Blanchi, University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble (France) with Ian A. F. Stokes, University of Vermont, Burlington (United-States) as Chairperson of the Scientific Committee. The International Symposium focused on Data Capture, Joint Motion, Mechanical Modeling, Neuro-muscular Modeling, 3-D Representation and Applications. The format consisted of keynote lectures, oral communications paired with discussion papers, poster presentations and a Round Table organized by Herman Woltring (The Netherlands). The meeting was recognized by both the Canadian Society for Biomechanics and the American Society for Biomechanics. About 120 participants from 11 countries attended the meeting.
 
The second meeting was held in Poitiers, FRANCE under the direction of Alain JUNQUA, Université de Poitiers. Herman J. WOLTRING acted as Chairperson of the Scientific Committee and Elena BIRYUKOVA from the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity (Moscow, Russia) was responsible for the Hyde Park Speakers' Corner. The latter replaced the Round Table which was found to limit the participation of the audience. To promote greater exchange between the different fields of human movement sciences, all keynote speakers but one were selected from areas lying outside the field of biomechanics. Following the untimely death of Herman Woltring in November, 1992, Zvi Ladin (Boston University, USA), member of the Scientific Committee assumed the chair of the Scientific Committee. To commemorate Herman Woltring`s contributions to this scientific field as well as his personal involvement in this meeting, one of the keynote presentation was identified as the Herman J. Woltring Memorial Lecture. This meeting was an official satellite event of the International Society of Biomechanics. About 115 participants from 16 countries attended the meeting.
 
The third International Symposium on Three-Dimensional Analysis of Human Movement was held in Stockholm, Sweden by Arne Lundberg of Huddinge Hospital, in 1994. At the ISB meeting in Paris (1993) it was agreed with Aurelio Cappozzo, President of this society that an ISB Working Group should be established. This would strengthen the ties between the International Symposium on Three-Dimensional Analysis of Human Movement and the ISB. The ISB Council was to give its approval. Furthermore, the International Symposium on Three-Dimensional Analysis of Human Movement would hold their meetings on even years to avoid competition with the ISB Technical Group on Computer Modeling. We were left with the following options: a) have our third meeting in less than a year (10 months) or b) wait three years (1996) and risk to lose our momentum. Arne Lundberg preferred to hold the meeting in 1994. The format of the Symposium remained the same though Arne Lundberg acted as both President of the meeting and Chairperson of the Scientific Committee. The idea of having an International Summer School was brought by Paul Allard. After discussion, the participants approved it. About 85 people form North America and Europe attended the Stockholm meeting.
 
In a letter dated on December 29th, 1995, Mont Hubbard (UC Davis, USA), Working/Technical Group Liaison Officer of the International Society of Biomechanics, has informed Paul Allard (University of Montreal, Canada) that the application to form a Working Group on Three-dimensional Analysis of Human Movement was approved by the ISB Executive Council at their last meeting which was held in Jyvaskyla, Finland in June, 1995.
 
The fourth International Symposium on Three-Dimensional Analysis of Human Movement was held in Grenoble, France by Jean-Pierre Blanchi of the Université Joseph Fourier, in 1996. About 115 participants attended this fourth meeting. As for the first meeting in Montreal (1991), this meeting was also historic. The passing of powers from an informal interest group to the Executive Board of the ISB Working Group on Three-Dimensional Analysis of Human Movement has taken place where it all began during the winter of 1989!
 
Combined with this fourth International Symposium, an International Summer School on the Three-dimensional Analysis of Human Movement was organized Joannès Dimnet of the Université Claude Bernard in Lyon, France. Because of the G-7 summit meeting in Lyon, the Summer School was moved to Grenoble. The keynote speakers were Paul Allard (Canada), Aurelio Cappozzo (Italy), Joannès Dimnet (France), Sandro Fioretti (Italy), Armin Gruen (Switzerland), Alain Junqua (France), Arne Lundberg (Sweden) and Kit Vaughan (South Africa). The lecture notes were published in the journal of Human Movement Science. Since Aurelio Cappozzo was unable to attend the International Summer School, J.P. Paul from Strathclyde, Scotland gave the opening lecture. Besides the eight invited speakers, about 24 participants from 14 countries attended the International Summer School.
 
First Executive Board:
a) President: Mike Whittle,
University of Tennessee
b) Past President: Jean-Pierre Blanchi, Université Joseph Fourier
c) Vice-President: Kit Vaughan,
University of Cape Town
d) Secretary-Treasurer: Paul Allard, University of Montreal
d) Member at large: Ge Wu, University of Vermont
e) Industry: Tom Whitaker, Motion Analysis Corporation
f) Computer Simulation: Ton von den Bogert, University of Calgary
g) Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing: Armin Gruen, ETH, Zurich

 
The fifth International Symposium on Three-Dimensional Analysis of Human Movement was held in Chattanooga, Tennessee and organized by Michael Whittle of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, in 1998.  Under the initiative of Michael Whittle, the ISB Working Group on Three-Dimensional Analysis of Human Movement was given an official logo  1st 3D Logo 1998 small  and a web page was created at www.utc.edu/Human-Movement/ (presently inactive).  About 110 participants attended this meeting.  It was the first official meeting of the ISB Working Group on Three-Dimensional Analysis of Human Movement. In this meeting, there was no round table discussion or a Hyde Park Speakers' Corner.  Selected abstracts were published in a special issue of the journal Human Movement Science.
 
The sixth meeting was held in Cape Town, South Africa under the direction of Kit Vaughan of the University of Cape Town.  This meeting attracted about 50 participants. This was the second consecutive meeting where there was neither round table discussion nor a Hyde Park Speakers' Corner.   Some of the presentations of the Cape Town meeting are available on the web.
 
The seventh meeting was held in Newcastle, United-Kingdom under the direction of Garth Johnson of the University of Newcastle.  This meeting attracted about 60 participants. This was the third consecutive meeting where there was neither round table discussion nor a Hyde Park Speakers' Corner.   Is this a new trend in the meeting organization?  Time will tell.  The proceedings were available both in paper and CD formats.
 
The eighth meeting was held in Tampa, Florida (United States) with Georgios Stylianides as President and Konstantinos "Dino" Vrongistinos (California State University, Northridge, USA), as Chairperson of the Scientific Committee.  About 80 participants attended the meeting that was characterized by five keynote speakers and good discussion periods after all the presentations. The proceedings were available in paperback format.

March 2005 - Under the initiative of Franck Barbier, the ISB Working Group on Three-Dimensional Analysis of Human Movement upgraded its official logo  2nd 3D Logo 2005 small  to better represent the three-dimensional model.

The First in-between symposia meeting of the Executive Board was held in Stockholm (Sweden) by Arne Lundberg. The purpose of this meeting was an in-depth discussion on the key issues related to the mission of the International Symposium on the Three-Dimensional Analysis of Human Movement, namely, to ensure that it
a)  continues to seek the best scientific and social environments to generate further communication and contact between investigators in diverse areas
b)  encourages discussions to cross the boundaries between scientific disciplines and specialties
c)  is directed at sharing information and results relating to philosophies for solving problems of measurement and analysis, rather than only delivering recent research study findings

The ninth meeting was held in Valenciennes (France) with Franck Barbier as President and Serge van Sint Jan (Brussels, Belgium) as Chairperson of the Scientific Committee. About 110 participants from 20 countries attended the meeting that was characterized by five keynote speakers and a good number of poster presentations. Round table discussion was reinstalled after four meetings. The proceedings were available on an electronic usb key. It was decided that the 2008 meeting should focus on fusion of methodologies so that the technological trend initiated in Tampa (2004) and further developed in Valenciennes be more greatly emphasized.

The Second in-between symposia meeting of the Executive Board was held in Montreal (Canada) by Paul Allard.  At this meeting an in-depth discussion was held on the constitution of the Executive Board and positions available for renewal.   A president-elect position was added to the Executive Board. This person will be responsible to organize the following international symposium and will be selected by a vote of the participants attending the meeting. Following Arne Lundberg' resignation, the Executive Board members will be seeking and nominating a new member at large. Chris Baten gave an up-to-date report on the upcoming 2008 symposium to be held in the Netherlands. 

The tenth meeting was held in Sanpoort-Amsterdam (Netherlands) with Chris Baten (Enschede, Netherlands) as President and Chairperson of the Scientific Committee. About 100 participants attended the meeting that was characterized by five keynote speakers and a good number of poster presentations. During this meeting, the "Whitaker-Allard Innovation Award" was introduced to recognize and compliment the best presentation, in honor of the two pioneers of the group, Tom Whitaker and Paul Allard. The award was presented to Ton van den Bogert (Cleveland Clinic, USA) for his presentation on "Real-time biomechanical analysis for virtual reality based rehabilitation". The proceedings were available on an electronic usb key and paperback format.

The Third in-between symposia meeting of the Executive Board was held in France, by Franck Barbier (Valenciennes). At that meeting, the 2010 Symposium and further meetings were discussed. Anita Bagley from Shriners Hospital will be organizing the Eleventh International Symposium in San Francisico, California (USA).

The eleventh meeting was held in San Francisco, California (USA) with Anita Bagley (Sacramento, CA, USA) as President and Wendy Murray (Evanston, IL, USA) as Chairperson of the Scientific Committee. About 69 participants attended the meeting that was characterized by five keynote speakers, eighteen podium presentations, and sixteen poster presentations. During this meeting, the "Whitaker-Allard Innovation Award" was presented to Julien Causse (Université de Lyon, France) for his presentation on "Missing contact forces estimation by minimizing net joint torques". The proceedings were available on a CD and paperback format.

Past presidents:
1989-91  Paul Allard (Montreal, Canada) and Jean-Pierre Blanchi (Grenoble, France)
1991-93  Alain Junqua (Poitiers, France)
1993-94  Arne Lundberg (Stockholm, Sweden)
1994-96  Jean-Pierre Blanchi (Grenoble, France)

1996-98  Michael Whittle (Chattanooga, TN, United States)
1998-00  Kit Vaughan (Cape Town, South Africa)
2000-02  Garth Johnson (Newcastle, United-Kingdom)
2002-04  Georgios Stylianides (Tampa, FL, United States)
2004-06  Franck Barbier (Valenciennes, France)
2006-08  Chris Baten (Enschede, Netherlands)
2008-10  Anita Bagley (Sacramento, CA, United States)
2010-12  Alberto Leardini (Bologna, Italy)

Present President:
2012-14  Kamiar Aminian  (Lausanne, Switzerland)
 

Past scientific committee chairs:
1989-91  Ian A.F. Stokes (
Burlington, VT, United States)
1991-93  Herman J. Woltring (Netherlands) and Zvi LADIN (
Boston, United States)
1993-94  Arne Lundberg (
Stockholm, Sweden)
1994-96  Jean-Pierre Blanchi (
Grenoble, France)
1996-98  Carolyne Small (Kingston, ON, Canada)
1998-00  Garth Johnson (Newcastle, United Kingdom)
2000-02  Nicky Fowler (Glasgow, UK)
2002-04  Konstantinos "Dino" Vrongistinos (Northridge, CA, United States)
2004-06  Serge van Sint Jan (Brussels, Belgium)
2006-08  Chris Baten (Enschede, Netherlands)
2008-10  Wendy Murray (Evanston, IL, United States)
2010-12  Ugo Della Croce (Sardinia, Italy)
 
Present scientific committee chair:
2012-14  TBA

Past meetings:
First 1991              Montreal, CANADA
Second 1993         Poitiers, FRANCE
Third 1994            Stockholm, SWEDEN
Fourth 1996          Grenoble, FRANCE

Fifth 1998             Chattanooga, Tennessee, UNITED STATES
Sixth 2000            Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA
Seventh 2002        Newcastle, UNITED-KINGDOM
Eighth 2004           Tampa, Florida, UNITED STATES
Ninth
  2006           Valenciennes, FRANCE
Tenth 2008            Santpoort-Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
Eleventh 2010        San Francisco, California, UNITED STATES
Twelfth 2012         Bologna, ITALY
 
Present meeting:
Thirteenth  2014        Lausanne, SWITZERLAND
 

Future meeting(s):
Fourteenth  2016       Taipei, TAIWAN

Past "Herman J. Woltring" Memorial Lectures:
1993        Robin E. Herron,   Colorado State University, USA
1994        Armin Gruen, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
1996        Hans-Gerd Maas, Zürich, Switzerland
1998        Jim Richards, University of Delaware, USA
2000        Franck “Clay” Anderson,   University of Texas at Austin, USA
2002        Rick Neptune, University of Texas at Austin, USA
2004        Lotfi A. Zadeh, UC Berkeley, USA
2006        Fabio Remondino, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
2008        Thomas Schon, Linkoping University, Sweden
2010         n/a
2012         Aurelio Cappozzo, Università Foro Italico, Italy

 
Past keynote speakers:
1.        Franck “Clay” Anderson - University of Texas at Austin - Modeling, 2000, Herman J. Woltring Memorial Lecture
2.        Thomas Andriacchi - Rush-Presbyterian-St-Luke's, Chicago - Orthopaedics, 1991
3.        William W. Armstrong - University of Alberta, Winnipeg - Neural networks, 1993
4.        Richard Baker - Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne - Modeling, Austria, 2004
5.        Horst Bayer - Imetric - Photogrammetry, 1993
6.        Thomas Calvert - Simon Fraser, British-Columbia - Virtual reality, 1991
7.    Aurelio Cappozzo - Instituto Universitario di Scienze Motorie, Italy - Bioengineering, 2008
8.        Jim Collins - Boston University - Motor control, 1998
9.    Stephano Corazza - Stanford University - Modeling, 2006
10.  Ugo Della Croce - University of Sassari, Italy - Biomechanics, 2006
11.  Irfan Essa - MIT - Virtual reality, 1994
12.    Pascal Fua - Swiss Federal Intitute of Technology (EPFL) - Virtual Reality, 1998
13.    Anatol Feldman - École Polytechnique de Montréal - Modeling, 1996
14   Giorgio Grisetti - University of Freiburg, Germany - Computer Engineering, 2008
15.    Jean Held - University of Vermont - Rehabilitation, 1998
16.     Robin E. Herron - Colorado State University - Photogrammetry, 1993,  Herman J. Woltring Memorial Lecture
17.     Thomas Huang - University of Illinois - Computer vision, 1991
18.     Dmitry Goldgof - University of South Florida - Computer Science, 2004
19.     David Guiraud - INSERM, France - Neural networks, 1996
20.     Armin Gruen - ETH Zürich - Photogrammetry, 1994, Herman J. Woltring Memorial Lecture
21.   Emily Keshner - Temple University - Rehabilitation, 2010
22.     Jack Lewis - University of Minnesota - Engineering, 1991
23.  Pierre Loslever - University of Valenciennes, France - Data Processing , 2006
24.     Tung-Wu Lu - National Taiwan University - Artifical neural network, 2000
25.     Hans-Gerd Maas - ETH Zürich - Photogrammetry, 1996, Herman J. Woltring Memorial Lecture
26.     David Morin - Softimage, Montreal - Virtual reality, 1993
27.  Yoshihiko Nakamura - University of Tokyo - Robotics, 2010
28.    
Rick Neptune - University of Texas at Austin - Simulation, 2002, Herman J. Woltring Memorial Lecture
29.     Eugenity S. Piatnitskiy - Institute of Control Sciences, Russia - Robotics, 1993
30.     Zoran Popovic - University of Washington - Modeling, 2004
31.     N. Ranganathan - University of South Florida, Tampa, USA - VLSI, 2004
32.     Ian Reid - University of Oxford - Instrumentation, 2002
33.  Fabio Remondino - ETH Zürich - Photogrammetry, 2006, Herman J. Woltring Memorial Lecture
34.     Jim Richards - University of Delaware - Instrumentation, 1998, Herman J. Woltring Memorial Lecture
35.  Pascale Rondot - Lockheed Martin Aeronautics - Industrial Design, 2010
36.  Thomas Schon - Linkoping University - Engineering, 2008, Herman J. Woltring Memorial Lecture
37.   Michael Schwartz - University of Minnesota - Engineering, 2008
38.  Ajay Seth - University of Texas at Austin - Modeling, 2006
39.    
Georges Singer - UQAM, Montreal - Virtual reality, 1994
40.     Serge van Sint Jan - Université Libre de Bruxelles - Modeling, 2002
41.  Robert Siston - Ohio State University - Surgery, 2010
42.     David H. Sutherland - San Diego Children's Hospital - Orthopaedics, 1993
43.     Jocelyne Troccaz - INRIA, Grenoble - Virtual Reality, 1996
44.     Christopher Vaughan - Cape Town University - Biomechanics, 1996
45.   Peter Veltink - University of Twente - Engineering, 2008
46.   Kim Vincs - Deakin University - Dance & Interactive Media, 2010
47.     Michael Whittle - Chattanooga - Rehabilitation, 1991
48.     Lotfi A. Zadeh - UC Berkeley, CA, USA, 2004 - Fyzzy logic, Herman J. Woltring Memorial Lecture
49.     Felix Zajac - Stanford - Engineering, 1991


Whitaker-Allard Innovation Award recipients:

Title of paper Recipient(s) Affiliation Symposium
Year



Bologna,
ITALY
2012

Julien Causse
Université de Lyon, INRETS,
FRANCE
San Francisco,
USA
2010
Real-time biomechanical analysis for virtual reality based rehabilitation.
Ton van den Bogert
Cleveland Clinic,
USA
Enschede, NETHERLANDS
2008


Banquet Toasts:

Subject Introduction Proposing Replying
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Fusion works
Santpoort-Amsterdam, Netherlands (2008)
Chris Baten
Michael Schwartz
Jaap Harlaar
Fusion
Valenciennes, France (2006)
Serge van Sint Jan
Chris Baten
Lasse Roren
Fuzzy perception and perceptual fuzziness
Tampa, FL, USA (2004)
Konstantinos "Dino" Vrongistinos Benjamin G. Fregly Kirsten Tulchin
Rigid bodies
Newcastle, UK (2002)
Chris Baten Franck Barbier Georgios Stylianides
Is size important?
Cape Town
, South Africa
(2000)
Garth Johnson Arne Lundberg Oskar Schmid
Second millennium
Chattanooga, TN, USA  (1998)
Carolyne Small Paul Allard Kit Vaughan
Transformations
Grenoble, France (1996)
Jean-Pierre Blanchi Arne Lundberg Kit Vaughan
Virtual unreality and real virtuality
Stockholm, Sweden (1994)
Arne Lundberg Michael Whittle Dwight Meglan
Old and new world of biomechanics
Poitiers
, France
(1993)
Zvi Ladin Melissa Gross Jacques de Guise
To come
Montreal
, Canada
(1991)
To come To come To come


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