News and Events

Brunel will be presenting a paper on Depth Mapping of Integral Images Using a Hybrid Disparity Analysis Algorithm, developed as part of the 3D VIVANT project at the IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting in June 27-29, 2012 in Seoul, south Korea. You can find out more by clicking here. (May 2012)

The 3D VIVANT project featured along with other EU funded projects in this area, in the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting journal paper entitled "3D-TV R&D Activities in Europe". To read the paper click here. (February 2012)

IRT will be presenting 2 papers on signal processing and its spherical microphone, developed as part of the 3D VIVANT project at the 38th German Annual Conference On Acoustics in March 19-22, 2012. You can find out more by clicking here. (February 2012)

Arri is participating in a project to design and construct a holoscopic camera, which allows realtime capture of 3D scenes. An array of microlenses, devised by researchers at Brunel University, has been apparently successfully integrated with an Arri Alexa. You can find out more by clicking here. (January 2012)

New BBC White Paper reveals research into holographic displays, 3D holoscopy for the Internet, new spatial sound systems, laser based glasses free 3D screens for multiple viewers and 3D video for mobile. You can find out more by clicking here. (January 2012)

IRT (Institut für Rundfunktechnik) presented a paper on the interpolation algorithm and the spherical surface microphone developed under 3D VIVANT. You can find out more by clicking here. (November 2011)

IRT (Institut für Rundfunktechnik) presented their spherical surface microphone at the NEM Summit visit the link below. You can find out more by clicking here. (September 2011)

The project partner Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) has presented a paper entitled "Spatial Prediction Based On Self-Similarity Compensation For 3d Holoscopic Image And Video Coding" at the 2011 International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2011).Brussels, Belgium, 11 - 14 September 2011. You can find out more by clicking here. (September 2011)

The project partner Centre for Research and Technology Hellas – Informatics and Telematics Institute (CERTH/ITI) has presented a paper entitled "Recognizing 3d Objects In Cluttered Scenes Using Projection Images" at the 2011 International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2011).Brussels, Belgium, 11 - 14 September 2011. You can find out more by clicking here. (September 2011)

The project partner Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) has presented a paper entitled "Improved Spatial Prediction for 3D Holoscopic Image and Video Coding" at the 2011 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO‐2011), in Barcelona, Spain, 29 August - 2 September 2011. You can find out more by clicking here. (September 2011)

The project partner Centre for Research and Technology Hellas – Informatics and Telematics Institute (CERTH/ITI) has presented a paper entitled "Depth estimation in integral images by anchoring optimization techniques" at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2011), in Barcelona, Spain, 11 - 15 July 2011. You can find out more by clicking here. (July 2011)

The project partner Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) has presented a paper entitled "3D Holoscopic Video Coding using MVC" at the EUROCON 2011 and CONFTELE 2011, in Lisbon, Portugal, 27-29 April 2011. You can find out more by clicking here. (June 2011)

3D VIVANT has created its own YouTube channel. In this it currently showcases videos of still computer generated 3D holoscopic images as well as a real still 3D holoscopic image. You can find out more by clicking here. (June 2011)

The project partner Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) has presented a paper entitled "3D Holoscopic Video Coding using MVC" at the EUROCON 2011 and CONFTELE 2011 in April 27-29, in Lisbon, Portugal. You can find out more by clicking here. (May 2011)

The project co-ordinator of 3D VIVANT has been invited to give a talk at the Blu-ray Disc Academy 2011 event, entitled "3D Holoscopic Imaging: The next generation 3D TV technology". This year's Blu-ray Disc Academy Event was held in Hamburg, Germany on the 3rd and 4th of May and focused on 3D related topics. You can find out more by clicking here. (May 2011)

The project partner Holografika has given invited talk entitled "The Roadmap of 3D Optics Development" at the C3D World Forum 2011, in Shenzen, China, 8-10 April 2011. You can find out more by clicking here. (April 2011)

First prototype of Type 1 Holoscopic Camera

A paper entitled "3D LIVE IMMERSE VIDEO-AUDIO INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA " has been accepted to be presented in the Technical Paper session of IBC 2010 Conference to be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands between 9-14 September 2010. In addition to this a demo based on the Holoscopic work of Brunel University, raising awareness about 3D VIVANT will be exhibited in the New Technology Section of the Exhibition. (February 2011)

3D VIVANT at IBC 2010 Conference and Exhibition

The Type 1 3D Holoscopic Camera prototype has been developed Brunel and ARRI . The Type 1 camera uses an add-on microlens array that is fixed on an HD camera. You can find out more by reading the third project Newsletter. (September 2010)

Project Service Scenarios Specified

The envisaged service scenarios specified within the context of this project are based on typical genres of TV shows. They includes three different scenarios, namely a TV Magazine scenario, a stop-motion animation scenario and a Museum documentary scenario. You can read more on these scenarios by reading the second project Newsletter. (August 2010)

Project Kick-off

The 3D VIVANT project has officially started on the 1st of March 2010. The consortium had their first plenary meeting on the 1st and 2nd of March. The meeting took place at the premises of Brunel University, the Project Coordinator, in London, UK and gathered together representatives of all Project Partners. (March 2010)