History of the International Symposium on the
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 
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 
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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