News 2020 3D Media

GrassValley presentation at the CVMP 2011

Santi Fort — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:55:14 +0000

Dr. Peter Centen is a Group Leader and Chief Scientist of Imaging, in the camera R&D department of Thomson Grass Valley. Amongst many other fields he is responsible for development and the implementation of imagers in professional and broadcast video cameras. At CVMP 2011 he talked about de research related with Time of Flight (ToF) cameras performed in the project by Thoms Grass Valley.

Depth map generated with the experimental camera

CVMP 2011 is the eighth in a series of events bringing together production and post-production specialists from the worlds of film, broadcast and games with imaging and graphics researchers. CVMP 2011 provides a European forum to discuss the latest research, advances and state-of-the-art industry practices.

Download the complete presentation at the project website.

270 degree mobile projection environment

Santi Fort — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:14:12 +0000

The Creativity World Forum is a highly regarded conference on innovation and creativity which has been hosted all over the world in the past years and this year was held in Hasselt.

Picture (c) Cedric Vanaken

The University of Hasselt installed there a 5m diameter, 3m high, 270-degrees mobile projection environment, in which it is showed an omni-directional recording captured earlier this year at the Arras (France) main square rock festival (100,000 spectators) with the Belgian TV station Exqi-culture and Alfacam in the context of the regionally financed IBBT R&D project “explorative television”, xtv in short. IBBT xtv is a folow-up R&D project directly spinning out of 2020 3D Media.

People visiting our demo experienced a rock concert by the British band “Kaiser Chiefs” as if they were sitting on stage – the experience was very convincing. The reactions were unanimously highly enthousiastic with visitors twittering about it as “the future of cinema”.

Camargus receives nominations at IBC2011

Santi Fort — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:48:27 +0000

The spinoff company Camargus that had for the first time an independent booth in a such important fair like the IBC.

They received one of the nominations of ” TVEurope’s Best of IBC2011 Editors’ Awards” in the field of acquisition by the prestigious TVBEurope professional publication. Camargus hit also the “What caught my eyes” nomination, brought by the IBC organizers. This was the second in a row nomination for that award.

Camargus booth at IBC 2011, Amsterdam

Presentation at IBC 2011

Santi Fort — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 07:52:17 +0000

This year the project presented a booth in the prestigious exhibition IBC 2011. With the participation of Technicolor, Fraunhoffer, JRS, Mediapro and University of Hasselt the booth looked really industry oriented.

JRS publish an article in the EBU Tech-I magazine

Santi Fort — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:30:21 +0000

An article titled “MPEG-7 Profile for Automatic Metadata Extraction in Media Production”, co-authored by Werner Bailer of Joanneum Research and Masanori Sano of NHK, has been published in the EBU Tech-I magazine. The article describes the MPEG-7 Audiovisual Description Profile.

The article take a look at the next phase in the automation of audiovisual media production.

Project showcase at Dimension3

Santi Fort — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:21:01 +0000

The 2020 3D Media project had the opportunity to participate with a stand at the Dimension 3 meeting in Paris, May 2011. There were possible to see results from those parners: JRS, HHI, DTS/Datasat, DPL and BM

Additionally to the presentation of the latest results shown in the booth, we also organized a presentation, around 45 minutes, in the main auditorium. Santi Fort from Barcelona Media was in charge to present the project.

The Showcases are public events and give an added value opportunity for the project to meet the potential users of the new developments and present the results to audiences.

DTO and Fraunhofer have published a joint paper

Santi Fort — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:04:36 +0000

T. Brune (DTO), Nicola Gutberlet (Fraunhofer) , Ralf Tanger (Fraunhofer) , and D. Gandolph (DTO) have published a joint paper at the SMPTE 2nd Annual International Conference on Stereoscopic 3D for Media and Entertainment held in June in New York: “A Unified Trifocal System for Advanced Depth‐Based 3D Capture“ describing the activities on ethernet based infrastructure and recording and trifocal depth estimation.

Project presentation at NAB 2011

Santi Fort — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 13:13:13 +0000

This year participation included the presentations by University of Reading, who presented a prototype of their semantically driven workflow toolkit, and Barcelona Media who presented the results related to the image processing group regarding the advancements in the generation of stereo pairs from images using their associated depth information.

Digital Projection at ISE 2011

Santi Fort — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:02:08 +0000

Digital Projection Ltd. delivered a scintillating AV display at this year’s ISE expo in Amsterdam. Displaying new single and 3-chip displays from an expanding product line, DPL demonstrated the flexibility of key DP products by presenting some in portrait mode and others in more traditional horizontal format. DPL also unveiled new single and 3-chip products to their international market, including the M-Vision Cine 3D and HIGHlite Cine 660.

Hordes of people flocked to the booth to catch a glimpse of the highly talked about 3D feature; a 5m concave dome showing immersive 3D using four of Digital Projection’s award winning TITAN 3D projectors arranged in a portrait configuration. Digital Projection used their Fusion 3D processor to seamlessly warp and blend each individual projector together. The dome feature was a stunningly realistic, immersive, and interactive experience for all which certainly created a buzz around the exhibition.

Dimension-3D format converter

Santi Fort — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:35:53 +0000

The versatility of Dimension 3D makes it suitable to fit into virtually all stereoscopic workflows:

- Allows for any 3D input stream format to be used with all types of display components currently available, including high end projectors and the latest generation of 3D ready LCD displays.

- Converts stereoscopic camera rig output to recorders and displays.

- Enables double stack 3D projection.

- By encoding the left and right eye streams into a single HDSDI stream and back again the unit becomes ideal for recording 3D content on standard HD tape and server technologies.

- When coupled with Doremi’s Nugget or V1 servers, a very cost effective 3D playout solution is provided especially in conjunction with the powerful Doremi Asset Management software.

A two line LCD display and function knob together simplify navigation through the Dimension-3D’s menus. A USB connection for remote operation and an infrared remote control are also provided. Firmware can be upgraded via a SD card or via USB.