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H2020Doctoral network2017–2022

DyViTo · Dynamics in Vision and Touch - the look and feel of stuff

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2017-10-01 → 2022-03-31
EU contribution
€2,834,980
Participants
15
Scheme
MSCA-ITN

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Results in brief

DyViTo: Dynamics in Vision and Touch - the look and feel of stuff

DyViTo stands for Dynamics of Vision and Touch: the look and feel of stuff. Daily tasks as diverse as drinking tea or operating machines require us to integrate information across time and the senses rapidly and flexibly. Understanding how the human brain performs dynamic, multisensory integration is a key question with important applications in creating digital and virtual environments. Our goal is to produce a step change in the industrial challenge of creating virtual objects that look, feel, move and change like ‘the real thing’. Levering the research excellence of 9 universities across Europe, we are combining psychology and neuroscience with engineering and computer graphics, to understand and use human sensory perception to drive applied innovations. Concurrently, we utilise the insights from 6 non-academic partners, including Schlenk Metallic Pigments (Germany) and Substance by Adobe (France) to deliver the following objectives: - understand how humans, perceive dynamic changes in shape, material properties and illumination using new behavioural and brain imaging techniques - measure and model the sensory integration of vision and touch information as we explore objects to determine their material properties - exploit insights from perception science to optimise the interactive rendering of virtual visual-haptic objects, and to support advances in lighting technology Our work shall benefit the wider community and be accessible by everyone. Whether for scientific or industry application, our findings will help shape academia, create new industry standards and inspire a whole new generation of scientists.

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Project objective

Real world tasks as diverse as drinking tea or operating machines require us to integrate information across time and the senses rapidly and flexibly. Understanding how the human brain performs dynamic, multisensory integration is a key challenge with important applications in creating digital and virtual environments. Communication, entertainment and commerce are increasingly reliant on ever more realistic and inmmersive virtual worlds that we can modify and manipulate. Here we bring together multiple perspectives (psychology, computer science, physics, cognitive science and neuroscience) to address the central challenge of the perception of material and appearance in dynamic environments. Our goal is to produce a step change in the industrial challenge of creating virtual objects that look, feel, move and change like ‘the real thing’. We will accomplish this through an integrated training programme that will produce a cohort of young researchers who are able to fluidly translate between the fundamental neuro-cognitive mechanisms of object and material perception and diverse applications in virtual reality. The training environment will provide 11 ESRs with cutting-edge, multidisciplinary projects, under the supervision of experts in visual and haptic perception, neuroimaging, modelling, material rendering and lighting design. This will provide perceptually-driven advances in graphical rendering and lighting technology for dynamic interaction with complex materials (WP1-3). Central to the fulfillment of the network is the involvement of secondments to industrial and public outreach partners. Thus, we aim to produce a new generation of researchers who advance our understanding of the ‘look and feel’ of real and virtual objects in a seamlessly multidisciplinary way. Their experience of translating back and forth between sectors and countries will provide Europe with key innovators in the developing field of visual-haptic technologies.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD · BradfordCoordinatorUnited Kingdom
  • ALLEGORITHMIC · Clermont-FerrrandFrance
  • ARUP BV · AmsterdamNetherlands
  • BILKENT UNIVERSITESI VAKIF · Bilkent AnkaraTürkiye
  • JUSTUS-LIEBIG-UNIVERSITAET GIESSEN · GIESSENGermany
  • LEDMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES SL · BarcelonaSpain
  • Schlenk Metallic Pigments GmbH · RothGermany
  • TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT · DelftNetherlands
  • THE BOARD TRUSTEES OF THE SCIENCE MUSEUM · LondonUnited Kingdom
  • THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · CAMBRIDGEUnited Kingdom
  • THE NATIONAL GALLERY · LondonUnited Kingdom
  • UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA · ZaragozaSpain
  • UNIVERSITAET ULM · UlmGermany
  • UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE · Newcastle Upon TyneUnited Kingdom
  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON · SOUTHAMPTONUnited Kingdom

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union