Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

National Initiatives

ADT PicPlay

Participants : Sebastien Bonopera, George Drettakis.

The Technology Development Action (ADT) PicPlay a technology tranfer pre-maturation project, supported by Inria and by UCA Jedi. The objective is to create a startup company based on image based rendering technologies, taking benefit from the team’s research and experience over the last 8 years. At this early stage, we evaluated the market and produced several Proof-of-Concept demonstrations for potential clients. One of the demonstrations is our new asset streaming capability that allows the use for huge datasets. We also developed a new solution to improve rendering quality. This solution uses a 3D mesh for each view and refines it according to this view only, before blending each view. PicPlay involved the development of several tools for converting and processing datasets. During this year we established contacts with industrial partners in the automobile industry and in the construction/public works industry who expressed interest in using the technology in their projects for visualization and navigation of captured environments.