3D technology is expected to change the way we interact with other people, audiovisual information, and technology. This will in turn affect many domains of modern society, ranging from entertainment, education, medicine, engineering, etc. However, wider acceptance of 3D technology is conditioned by solving challenges on the levels of technology, human factors and community/organization.
The 3D End-User Devices Working Group (WG5 ) concentrates its coordination efforts on end-user devices, the visible part of the 3D media system, namely: 3D Video devices, 3D Audio devices and 3D Interaction devices.
One highly intriguing and also commercially interesting category of novel displays is mid-air 3D displays, which enable projected images to float in free space and interact with them naturally. The visual quality of the current 3D displays is adequate for some applications, but it is a major limitation for the full exploitation of these technologies.
Members of WG5 represent a wide range of expertise on various related fields:
- 3D display R&D and manufacturing experience
- 3D rendering algorithms and computing systems
- Design of new applications / Interfacing existing 3D applications to 3D displays
- User studies of 3D stereoscopic interaction
- Design of new applications for 3DTV
- Design of new modalities for interaction with 3D video
- Signal and image processing for 3D
- Coding theory
- Computer graphics & vision
- Gesture based interaction / identification
- Natural user interaction with 3D content
- Virtual view generation from camera images
- Visual optimization of autostereoscopic displays
- 3D video filtering
Coordination and cooperation between the research performing partners will bring us closer to the ultimate aim of what the general public or media often describes as “holographic” or “StarWars” display.
The Working Group members are:
Chair: Peter Tamas Kovacs, Holografika, Hungary
Tibor Balogh, Holografika, Hungary
Andrej Kos, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Cristian Mihaescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Andrew Perkis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Jordi Puig, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Wendy Ann Mansiall, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Liyuan Xing, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Charalambos Poullis, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
Ahmet Kondoz, Surrey University, UK
Janko Calic, Surrey University, UK
Haiyue Yuan, Surrey University, UK
Mårten Sjöström, Mid Sweden University, Sweden
Manuel Martinez Corral, University of Valencia, Spain
Mihai L. Mocanu, School of Control, Computers and Electronics, Romania
Dragan Kukolj, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Serbia
Atanas Gotchev, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Atanas Boev, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Robert Bregovic, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Eva Salvador, Universitat Jaume I, Spain
Filiberto Pla, Universitat Jaume I, Spain
Philippe Hanhart, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
