Dr Georges Fisse is heading DIGINEXT's Simulation & Virtual Reality Division since its creation. His main areas of technical expertise include Remote Sensing, GIS, Earth Observation, Image Processing, and also sales and marketing. He was formerly heading the Imagery Department of the CS' Earth Observation Division where he was in charge of projects such as VGT (vegetation) and SCARAB instrument Image Quality systems, POLDER data processing chain, SPOT "DownStream" programme (image correction, image rectification, geocoding, panchromatic/multispectral data fusion, mosaic generation, supervised and automatic classification, cartography and GIS, Environment), EU's MARS programme (Monitoring Agriculture by Remote : 1Sensing), ESA's MEGACITIES (valorisation of ESA data on Mega City user segment), CNES Synthetic aperture radar simulation (SIROS and MISTRAL simulators), SAR image generation and processing (including new generation modes: spotlight, scanSAR, focus) and SAR interferometry, or Helios Imagery Programme. He received his Ph.D. in computer science (Image Processing specialisation) from the Toulouse III University, France.

Dr Olivier Balet is the CTO of DIGINEXT. His main areas of expertise include virtual reality, virtual prototyping and virtual storytelling, 3D interaction, multi-modal computer-human interfaces, cooperative working, and physical simulation.
Prior to his current position, he has conducted research on 3D interaction and visualisation at the Toulouse III University. He received his diploma (M.S.) and Ph.D. in computer science (VR specialisation) from the Toulouse III University, France. He has been the author of several European funded projects (CAVALCADE, VISIONS, V-Man, V-Planet, VISTA, INSCAPE, CRIMSON, V-City,etc.).
He has been an active expert to both the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche and the European Commission for activities under FP5 KA3 and KA4 (Virtual Reality, Simulation, Multimedia and Collaborative Working Action lines), FP6 & FP7 (FET, Cultural Heritage & Technology Enhanced Learning, Distributed Audiovisual Systems). He has been VR assistant professor at both the Toulouse III University and the ENSICA high school, program committee member or reviewer for international conferences (Eurographics, ICVS, VRIS, Minitrack, TIDSE, etc.), and the author of more than 30 papers published in international journals and conference proceedings.

Dr Jesse Himmelstein is the V-City Project Manager in the Simulation & Virtual Reality Division at DIGINEXT.  His main areas of expertise include 3D simulation, collision detection, and motion planning. Born in the United States, he did in undergraduate work at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore before moving to France. He did his Masters at INSA Toulouse, followed by a PhD at the LAAS in robotics and motion planning in the context of industrial design and manufacturing.   
Before his current position, he has been working for a software editor where he was in charge of the research and development of algorithms to calculate swept volumes, simulate deformable objects, and allow inter-penetration between malformed geometry during motion planning.

Monique Geyres is Project Manager assistant in DIGINEXT. Mrs Geyres received a Degree of Trilingual Director's Assistant: English and Spanish. She has been working at CS for more than 20 years in different areas such as human resources, accounting, sales, marketing. She has been working during 5 years as a coordinator assistant on the European ESPRIT projects. From 1999 to 2004, she was the assistant of the Regional General Director. She was involved in the management of the INSCAPE FP6 Integrated Project.

Eric Cazeaux is the Technical Manager of the V-City project in DIGINEXT's Simulation and Virtual Reality Division. He is also in charge of the next generation 3D GIS product line (VirtualGeo and VrGIS) developed by the V-City project. Graduated from ENI Brest in 2002, as a Computer Science Engineer, he previously worked on Virtual Environments for Training for Virtual Reality European Center (CERV) in Brest during 4 years. He mainly worked on 3D simulation, physics models, artificial intelligence, TTS, and ASR technologies. He joined CS in 2006 where he has been in charge of the 3D GIS tools developed in the company(VirtualGeo and VrGIS). His main fields of interests are Simulation and 3D GIS data visualization.

Dr Eric Menou is the technical manager for the Vertigo 3D toolkit product in DIGINEXT's Simulation & Virtual Reality Division. He received his M.S. degree in Computer Science from the Toulouse III University in 1999. He was Assistant Professor for 3 years at the Toulouse III where he received his PhD for the V-Man Character Animation system. His main fields of interest include 3D Animation and Interactive Visualisation.

Éric Boumaour is the technical manager for the V-City SDK (VrGIS) in DIGINEXT's Simulation and Virtual Reality Department. He graduated in 2000 from the prestigious École Polytechnique in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science majors. He also owns a Computer Science Engineering Degree from the ENSEEIHT high school in Toulouse. He has previously worked in the US on OpenGL driver programming for ATI, a leading graphics hardware manufacturer. His fields of interests include 3D and interactive visualization engines.

Fabrice Tomasi is an engineer in computer graphics in DIGINEXT's Simulation & Virtual Reality Division. His main areas of expertise include realtime 3D graphics, GPU related technologies and operating systems related technologies. He graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieured'Electrotechnique, d'Electronique, d'Informatique, d'Hydraulique et de Télécommunications (ENSEEIHT), in the computer science and applied mathematics department, in 2000. He worked for 3 years and a half in Tokyo, mainly for Sony Computer Entertainment on Playstation3 projects and on the Alchemy middleware game engine. He also worked on industrial projects such as the Airbus A380 and the Rosetta probe.

Dr. Roberto Scopigno is a Senior Research Scientist with CNR-ISTI. He graduated in Computer Science at the University of Pisa in 1984. He has been engaged in research projects concerned with scientific visualisation, volume rendering, multi-resolution data modelling and rendering, 3D range scanning, Cultural Heritage applications. He published more than one hundred papers on international journals or conferences. Roberto has been responsible person for CNR-ISTI in the projects EU IST "The Virtual Planet" IST-2000 28095, EU IST "ViHAP3D" IST-2001-32641, EU PASR-2004 "CRIMSON: the Crisis Simulation System", IST FET "Crossmod"; he participates to the activities of the EU IST NoE "EPOCH" and IST NoE "Aim@Shape".
He was Co-Chair of international conferences (Eurographics '99, Rendering Symposium 2002, WSCG 2004, Geometry Processing Symp. 2004, VAST 2005, Eurographics 2008) and serves in the programme committees of several events (ACM Siggraph '04 and '05, Eurographics, IEEE Visualization, SMI, etc.).  He is Vice-Chair of the  Eurographics Association and Editor in Chief of the International Journal Computer Graphics Forum.

Dr. Fabio Ganovelli is a Research Scientist with the CNR-ISTI. He graduated in Computer Science at the University of Pisa in 1995 and received a Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science at the University of Pisa in 2001. His current research activity involves Scientific Visualization, with emphasis on Real Time Rendering of large terrains and urban environments and Simulation of Deformable Objects. He participated in the EU projects: EU IST  "The Virtual Planet" IST-2000 28095,  EU PASR-2004 "CRIMSON: the Crisis Simulation System”. He was Co-chair of several international conferences: Eurographics 06 (short papers), Vriphys04, Vriphys05, EGWR02 and ISVC05 (special track on Surgery Simulations).

Dr Enrico Gobbetti is the director of the Advanced Computing and Communications Program (ACC) and of the Visual Computing (ViC) group at the Center for Advanced Studies, Research, and Development in Sardinia (CRS4). He holds an Engineering degree (1989) and a Ph.D. degree (1993) in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). Before joining CRS4, he conducted research on 3D interaction and animation at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, and on time-critical graphics, multimedia and virtual reality at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore MD, USA, and at the Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences (NASA/CESDIS), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD, USA. His current research interests include multiresolution and time-critical graphics, scientific visualization, as well as visual and haptics simulation. Enrico has widely published in international refereed journals and conferences. He served as chair, program committee member and reviewer for international conferences and journals and has organized and taught advanced courses on object-oriented technology, graphics, and virtual reality at universities and international research symposia.

Pr Luc Van Gool is an electrical engineer, graduated from the University of Leuven. He became a lecturer in 1992 and in the meantime is a full professor. He is an editor-in-chief of the journal Foundations & Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision, and a member of the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, the International Journal on Computer Vision, and Machine Vision and Applications. He was a member of the program committees and Area Chair of several major conferences (International Conference on Computer Vision, IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, European Conference on Computer Vision, and many others). He was a program chair of the International Conference on Computer Vision 2005 in Beijing and will be the General Chair for the same conference in 2011. He has co-organised several workshops about several subareas of vision. He has co-authored over 200 papers in the field of Computer Vision.
In 2007, they also won the best paper award at the IEEE CVPR 2007 conference, for their paper: "Dynamic 3D Scene Analysis from a Moving Vehicle".
In 2006, Nico Cornelis, Bastian Leibe, Kurt Cornelis and Luc Van Gool won the IEEE CVPR 2006 Conference, 'Best Video Award', for the video "3D City Modeling using Cognitive Loops".
In 1998 he co-founded the spin-off company Eyetronics, which is specialised in 3D modeling. In its first year of existence they won already several awards with its 3D technology, including the European IT prize 1998.

Pascal Mueller is co-founder and CEO of Procedural Inc., an ETH spin-out company specialized in software for the efficient creation of 3D buildings and cities. During his Ph.D. thesis at the Computer Vision Laboratory at the ETH Zurich, Pascal Mueller pioneered novel techniques for the procedural modelling of architectural 3D content which are now the core of Procedural's flagship product, the CityEngine. Besides computer graphics, his main interests lie in the field of visual effects production, architecture, generative design, and computer-aided media art.
He has published more than 25 scientific papers including SIGGRAPH and has held more than 30 invited talks at international conferences, universities and companies all over the world. He received his diploma (M.S.) in computer science from ETH Zurich in 2001 and since then has participated in several Swiss and European funded projects (e.g. MESH, MURALE, Blue-C, CyberWalk, and EPOCH).
His body of artistic work includes short movies, music videos, over 50 live visuals performances, and several interactive installations exhibited in museums like the Ars Electronica Center. Before his Ph.D., he worked two years in the animation industry as freelance 3D artist and technical director for several Swiss production companies.

Dr Jean-Baptiste de la Rivière is in charge of the Immersion SAS Research and Development department. Jean-Baptiste joined Immersion at the end of year 2005. Beforehand, he received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science. As a student at the University of Bordeaux, he studied many computer-science related topics, from programming to computer graphics. Later on, he has been teaching those skills to bachelor and master students, as a teaching assistant for five years.
He conducted his doctorate in the LaBRI, the computer science laboratory of Bordeaux. As a member of the INRIA Iparla team, his research work dealt with virtual reality and human-computer interaction. More specifically, he worked on the use of video tracking for real-time interaction.
As Immersion R&D manager, he is now pursuing his research in the company and is leading the design of new input devices and User Interface techniques. The close collaboration between Immersion and many virtual reality users ensures such research and development work is on par with the real-world users’ constraints.
Jean-Baptiste de la Rivière is the author of more than 10 technical publications and proceedings

He graduates in Industrial Data Processing in 1990. In 1991 he won the competition to participate at IBM's sales departments training, he also attended in the same year the school of Industrial Marketing. Since 1995 he travels regularly in Europe and USA to qualify on new product lines and improve his relationship with constructors. Actually he is the President of Immersion SAS.

Armando Cavazzini is BLOM CGR CTO. He received a degree in Mechanical Engineering conferred by the University of Bologna and Diploma of Biennial course in Business Management conferred by the Scuola di Direzione Aziendale of the Bocconi University in Milan. He is also responsible for remote sensing management for the company activities, on the basis of contracts concerning sensors i.e the MIVIS Hyperspectral scanner and surveys. In the years of his activity at BLOM CGR, he was project manager in various projects and in the management of numerous supply contracts, as Manager of a European Community (DG VI) project for technical verification of different calculation methods for digital terrain models and their precision, in view of the creation of territorial information systems; of the project for the production of a colour and false-colour infrared flight, scale 1:25,000, and subsequent creation of orthophoto maps scale 1:5,000 covering the complete Swiss territory, ordered by Swissphoto, subsidiary of Swissair. He is also in charge of the development activities concerning a software prototype for GPS-assisted automatic navigation and coordinator of various Lidar projects.