We have three industrial partners: EPTRON, coordinator (Spain), Holografika (Hungary), and Total-Immersion (France). The general scientific and technological challenge of the project is to achieve realistic virtual representations of humans through two complimentary technologies: (i) multi-camera based acquisition of human data and of human actions and gestures, and (ii) visualization of these complex representations using modern 3-D holographic display devices.

Our team will carry out research in order to develop a real-time multi-camera and multi-PC system. The developments will be based on 3-D reconstruction methods based on silhouettes and on visual hulls as well as on human-motion capture methods and action and gesture recognition (see sections 3-D shape modeling and Motion representation and estimation).