Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

The Morpheo team is associated with the Matsuyama lab. at the University of Kyoto (http://morpheo.inrialpes.fr/Kyoto/ ). Both entities are working on the capture of evolving shapes using multiple videos and the objective of the collaboration is to make progress on the modeling of dynamic events using visual cues with a particular emphasize on human gesture modeling for analysis purposes. To this aim, the collaboration fosters exchanges between researchers in this domain, in particular young researchers, through visits between the two teams. In the frame of this collaboration, a workshop was organized in November 2013 at the Inria Grenoble (http://morpheo.inrialpes.fr/kyoto/inria-kyoto-workshop-on-4d-modeling/ ).

A common work with an ecophysiologist from Forest Research, Eric Casella, is currently carried out to recover useful geometric information from unorganized point clouds of plants and trees, obtained with a terrestrial laser scanning device. Preliminary results have been presented this year at the FSPM conference [4] .

The long term collaboration with TU Munich and Slobodan Ilic on human motion capture is ongoing with the work of Paul Huang [7] that was published at 3DV this year and received a best paper award. The work contributes with an approach that recovers both the shape and the articulated pose of a human body, over time sequences, using multiple videos.