ART.LIVE: Architecture and authoring tools for prototype for living images and new video experiments

• Forschungsstelle: EU FRP
• Projektnummer: 00.0005-2
• Projekttitel Englisch: ART.LIVE: Architecture and authoring tools for prototype for living images and new video experiments

Schlüsselwörter (Englisch)

Augmented reality; virtual reality; authoring tool; video objects

Alternative Projektnummern (Englisch)

EU project number: IST-1999-10942

Forschungsprogramme (Englisch)

EU-programme: 5. Frame Research Programme - 1.2.4 Essential technologies and infrastructures

Kurzbeschreibung (Englisch)

See abstract

Partner und Internationale Organisationen (Englisch)

ADERSA (F), ADETTI (P), CASTERMAN (B), EPFL (CH), FASTCOM (CH), TILAB, former CSELT (I), UCL (B), UJF (F)

Abstract (Englisch)

The goal of art.live (ARchitecture and authoring Tools for Living Images and new Video Experiments) is to develop an architecture and a set of tools, both generic and application dependent, for the enhancement of narrative spaces. To this aim, art.live gathers image processing engineers, AI computer scientists and multimedia authors.
The project is meant to be demonstrated through public trials that will broadcast recent innovations in the field of intelligent distributed video processing among the authors and artists community. The latter shows indeed a growing interest in the World Wide Web, as a new media able to distribute in an easier way their production and to offer new narrative spaces. The objective of art.live is to implement this interaction and demonstrate it into specific experiments: 'enhanced' comics and a festival/event.
To reach this goal, at the signal processing level, an efficient model-based segmentation, a mixed 2D-3D scene reconstruction, and a dynamic database system for objects based on MPEG-7 are required. The art.live project will moreover design a secure distributed agents architecture.
EPFL is mainly involved in the development of efficient segmentation and tracking algorithms, and on multi-object analysis and indexing.
The achieved results can be summarized as follows:
· Development of a multi-agent FIPA compliant platform
· Usage of MPEG-7 descriptors
· Automatic image segmentation and analysis tools, performing in real-time on a standard PC
· Development of embedded PCs to be connected to the cameras
· Image manipulation and composition tools for mixed reality, performing in real-time on a standard PC
· Authoring tool specifications and mock-up
· Trial 1 in the Bercy gardens (Paris) for three weeks and 1000 users
· Trial 2 in the Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans (France) for two weeks and more than 15 classrooms

More information about this project is available at:

http://www.tele.ucl.ac.be/PROJECTS/art.live/

Datenbankreferenzen (Englisch)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
Tel. [phone]
Swiss Project-Number: 00.0005-2