3DLife @CLARITY
Noel O'Connor, Philip Kelly, Dave Monaghan and Mark Gowing gave an overview of three of the demonstrator projects that CLARITY is involved in as part of the EU FP7 3DLife Network of Excellence on the 14th July.
The projects are:
- Simulating realistic 3D human body motion in virtual environments.
This project derives activities from tennis players in the real world via Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) and maps their motion onto virtual avatars of themselves (created using full 3D body scans of the players), which are then rendered across a network in a virtual tennis court.
- Coordination of an ACM Multimedia grand challenge 2101. The focus of this challenge is on exploring the limits of what is possible in terms of 2D and 3D data extraction from a low-cost multi-modal data (obtained from camera networks, audio and IMUs) for tennis (http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/conferences/mmchallenge/challenges/3dlife/).
- An augmented reality dressing room, which takes video of a person and superimposes virtual versions of customised clothing onto a client in real time. The virtual mirror allows customers to see what clothing would look like before they buy.
“Bringing the Media Internet to Life" - or simply, 3DLife - is a European Union funded project that aims to integrate research conducted within Europe in the field of Media Internet. The core objective of the 3DLife project is to create sufficient momentum by helping an existing large number of researchers and resources to integrate realistic, efficient and, to some extent, autonomic media communication and interaction over the Internet, and thus influence the long-term European research agenda in several important aspects of Media Internet. More information on the 3DLife project is available from the 3DLife website.