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Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

FP7 & H2020 Projects

FP7 NoE - V-MusT.net (2011-2015):

Participants: cf. http://www.v-must.net/participants

Leader: S. Pescarin (CNR - Italy)

V-MusT.net is a European Network of Excellence dedicated to Virtual Museums. A Virtual Museum is a personalized, immersive, interactive experience that aims to enhance our understanding of the past in museums or on the Internet. The V-Must.net network enables heritage professionals around the world to connect, collaborate and advance the development and use of virtual museums.

FP7 ITN - PRISM “Perceptual Representations for Illumination, Shape and Materials” (2013-2016):

Participants: Giessen University, Université Paris-Descartes, Bilkent University, Université de Leuven, Delft University, Birmingham University, Philips and NextLimit

Leader: R. Fleming (Giessen University)

The goal of this project is to better understand how the human visual system understands images in terms of meaningful components: How is shape perceived consistently in varying illumination conditions and for different materials? To which extent are humans able to guess the main illumination directions in a scene? What visual properties do we make use of to estimate the material an object is made of without touching it? Answering these questions will require inter-disciplinary research and collaborations.

Foreign grants

DFG Emmy-Noether grant “Plenoptic Acquisition and Projection - Theoretical Developments and Applications” (2012-2017)

Leader: I. Ihrke

This project aims to develop a comprehensive theory of the imaging process in optical-computational devices as developed in the newly emerging field of Computational Optics. The theory will be validated by a number of practical applications.

It will allow for the modeling of image formation processes in measurement systems employing novel computational imaging and projection devices. This makes it possible to optimize these systems with respect to particular imaging tasks, which is currently impossible due to limited models. A further interesting aspect of the project is that computational imaging devices will become comparable with respect to parameters such as their resolution and noise characteristics which is hardly possible at the moment.