LIFEPLUS
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- Full name
- LIFEPLUS: Innovative revival of life in ancient frescos-paintings and creation of immersive narrative spaces, featuring real scenes with behaviored virtual fauna and flora
Interaction between real and virtual worlds
- Acronym
- LIFEPLUS
- Website
- Keywords
- Software platforms,
2D/3D registration for matching real and virtual worlds, Avatars (simulation of facial expressions...),
- Budget
- €
- Start date
- 1/1/2002
- End date
- 10/1/2004
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Partners
- [[Hellas, FORTH - Greece Archeological Superintendence of Pompei - Italy, University of Milan - Italy , 2d3 Ltd - UK, noDNA AG - Germany, Foundation for Research & Technology -, Bionatics S.A. - France, GD Fraunhofer - Germany, INTRACOM S.A. - Greece, A&C 2000 - Italy (www.aec2000.it) , Unige MIRALab - Switzerland , EPFL, VRlab - Switzerland]]
Funding Bodies
Contact
- [[Scientific coordinator UNIGE, MIRALab
UNIGE, MIRALAB 24 r. General-Dufour CH 1211 Geneva Email: Thalmann@miralab.unige.ch Web: Tel: +41-379-7769 Fax: (mailto:useremail@useremail)
Objectives
The goal of LIFEPLUS is to push the limits of current Augmented Reality (AR) technologies, exploring the processes of narrative design of fictional spaces (e.g.frescos) where users can experience a high degree of realistic interactive immersion.
Main Results
- real-time virtual life
- automatic real-camera tracking
- design of successful character based installations
- expressive automatic cinematography for interactive virtual environments
- middleware architecture focusing on interoperable components
- analysis of existing and future standards
- exploration of new AR market
- Scientific results
- PhD thesis
Michal Ponder, EPFL
- Demonstrators
- ...
- Material results:
- Prototype,
- Patent,
- Distributed product
- ...
End Users
Evaluation Methodologies
Design Approach
Publications
G. Papagiannakis, M. Ponder, T. Molet, S. Kshirsagar, F. Cordier, N. Magnenat-Thalmann, D. Thalmann, LIFEPLUS: Revival of life in ancient Pompeii, Virtual Systems and Multimedia, Proc. VSMM 2002. G. Papagiannakis, S. Schertenleib, M. Ponder, M.Arévalo, N. Magnenat-Thalmann, D. Thalmann, Real-Time Virtual Humans in AR Sites, Proc. IEE Visual Media Production (CVMP), pp. 273-276, 15-16 March 2004, London, UK, March 2004
