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IP-RacineAcademic Research

Philippe Bekaert

Expertise center for Digital MediaHasselt University (B)www.edm.uhasselt.be

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Academic Partners• Pompeu Fabra University (ES)

•SpeedFX PC cluster based real time rendering•Sound de- and rereverberation•De-interlacing

• Hasselt University, EDM (B)•Video-based representation and animation•Multi-camera capture and processing

•Glasgow University (UK)•Piecewise continuous image representation, scaling•Novel image compression

•Joanneum Research (AT)•Metadata capture, representation, storage, editing, preservation, conversion

•Fondazione Scuola di San Giorgio (IT)•Quadraphonic audio technology

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Multi-camera capture and processing

Archetypical application: time slicing

Ad-hoc rig determines virtual camera pathCameras must be aimed/framed accurately

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More simple on set / more flexible in post

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Multi-camera capture and processing

VIPER / MVCam Sync hardware box + Software

Distributed capturesoftware

Camera position,orientation, andlens propertiesestimationsoftware

Color matchingsoftware

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Multi-camera capture and processing

View interpolation algorithmic improvements

Panoramicvideo synthesis

Time slicing spatiotemporalvirtual camera path planning