EVOCATION — Advanced Visual and Geometric Computing for 3D Capture, Display, and Fabrication

Results in brief

Advanced Visual and Geometric Computing for 3D Capture, Display, and Fabrication

3D data is everywhere, from our phones to our cars to our homes. And the market for 3D sensors and displays is booming. The Advanced Visual and Geometric Computing for 3D Capture, Display, and Fabrication (EVOCATION) project is training a new generation of experts to meet the challenges and opportunities of this growing field. EVOCATION was a European-wide doctoral program that trained researchers in the latest advances in 3D capture, display, and fabrication. The consortium (i) developed new ways to capture 3D data from large collections of objects, even those with complex materials and shapes. (ii) It created interactive visualization tools that allow us to explore and understand large amounts of 3D data. (iii) EVOCATION extended the capabilities of 3D printing technologies to create objects with new and improved properties, and (iv) developed new display systems that provide a more immersive and realistic experience of 3D data. EVOCATION successfully addressed the following emerging research topics: 1. Innovation in visual and geometric acquisition and processing: How to enable scalable and cost-effective high-fidelity mass-digitization of shape and appearance of large collections of 3D objects with complex materials going beyond the manual acquisition of single objects to the automated multi-modal acquisition of large collections. 2. Innovation in interactive data-intensive visualization: How to explore large amounts of acquired data in an interactive manner, efficiently considering the variable quality and noise of captured data through the integration of statistical methods, to improve understanding and performance. 3. Innovation in computational fabrication: How to extend the reproduction capabilities of current 3D printing technologies and processes by exploring better computational design approaches able to represent and predict visual and physical properties of real-world materials in an accurate and reliable manner. 4. Innovation in display systems: How to improve visual replication and understanding of 3D data and associated information through novel high-bandwidth display environments, including high-density ubiquitous displays, large high-resolution displays (LHDs), light field displays, and multi-display environments.

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Project objective

The project will create a leading European-wide doctoral Collegium for research in Advanced Visual and Geometric Computing for 3D Capture, Display, and Fabrication (EVOCATION). The Collegium will train the next generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative experts who will be equipped with the necessary skills and competences to face current and future major challenges in scalable and high-fidelity geometry and material acquisition, extraction of structure and semantic information, processing, visualization, 3D display and 3D fabrication in professional and consumer applications. In the future, the ESRs will lead research and development of new visual and geometric computing methods in the widest variety of applications, ranging from industrial design to humanities, from medical training to urban assessment, and from creative industries to education methodologies. The EVOCATION network of public and private entities will be naturally multidisciplinary and multi-institutional and will: (a) promote, through domain-specific challenges, the culture of open science and multidisciplinary research applied to concrete problems of the real world, in strict cooperation with end users in engineering, science and humanities; (b) advance the state-of-the-art in geometry and material acquisition, geometry processing and semantic feature extraction, interactive visualization, computational fabrication, and high-bandwidth/3D display systems; (c) bridge complementary approaches for cost-effective data digitization, visualization, fabrication, and display through the integration of different methodologies in the 3D capture, processing and fabrication pipeline; (d) demonstrate the feasibility and efficiency of scalable cost-effective end-to-end techniques to virtually and physically capture and create objects with complex shape and appearance; (e) increase awareness of the benefits of advanced visual/geometric computing technology in both professional and consumer domains.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

UNIVERSITAET ROSTOCK · RostockCoordinatorGermany
CENTRO DI RICERCA, SVILUPPO E STUDI SUPERIORI IN SARDEGNA SOCIETÀ A RESPONSABILITÀ LIMITATA · PulaItaly
CIRP GMBH · HEIMSHEIMGermany
CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE · RomaItaly
ESRI R&D CENTER ZURICH AG · ZurichSwitzerland
FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV · MunchenGermany
GEXCEL SRL · BresciaItaly
HOLOGRAFIKA HOLOGRAMELOALLITO FEJLESZTO ES FORGALMAZO KFT · BudapestHungary
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Cagliari · CagliariItaly
NVIDIA GmbH · WuerselenGermany
PAZMANY PETER KATOLIKUS EGYETEM · BudapestHungary
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN · WienAustria
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DARMSTADT · DarmstadtGermany
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI CAGLIARI · CagliariItaly
UNIVERSITA DI PISA · PisaItaly
UNIVERSITAT ZURICH · ZurichSwitzerland

EVOCATION · Advanced Visual and Geometric Computing for 3D Capture, Display, and Fabrication

Results in brief

Advanced Visual and Geometric Computing for 3D Capture, Display, and Fabrication

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