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We are thrilled to welcome Dr Raghav Brahmadesam Venkataramaiyer to the CAMERA Team. Raghav will be joining us as a Research Associate working on an MRC project with CAMERA Associate Dr Vinay Namboodiri and CAMERA Co-Investigator Prof Darren Cosker. We asked Raghav to tell us a little bit about himself…...
On Tuesday 26 April MyWorld in collaboration with Digital Catapult marked the launch of the first funding opportunity from the programme, a Collaborative Research and Development (CR&D) Call. The event was a sell-out with over 100 attendees across research communities and industries in the creative technology sector, all coming together to celebrate the...
CAMERA researcher Yiguo Qiao has had her paper ‘Fast, High-Quality Hierarchical Depth-Map Super-Resolution’ accepted at the prestigious ACM International Conference of Multimedia 2021. Yiguo’s research interests cover the fields of image processing, computer vision, medical data analysis and motion capture, focusing specifically on 3D stereoscopic vision. Working with Prof Darren...
For the past 2 years CAMERA’s Neill Campbell has been working on the SmartROTO project with pioneering software producer Foundry and leading global visual effects company DNEG. The project combining research from industry and academia was set up to use artist assisted machine learning to speed up the traditionally time-consuming rotoscoping process. As...
CAMERA are recruiting for a Research Associate in Facial Synthesis. Working with a current system developed in CAMERA for generating facial expressions using Genetic Algorithms you will develop approaches to scale-up it’s use from only a few users to hundreds across multiple locations. Incorporating new methods to increase the diversity...
On Friday 30th April we were thrilled to welcome academics, students, partners and guests from across our network to our CAMERA 2.0 Launch event. If you missed the event you can watch the recording to hear Centre Directors, theme leads and industry partners outline the huge achievements of CAMERA to...
Centre for Digital Entertainment research engineer, Isabel Fitton, has been working with the CAMERA team as part of her research into virtual reality learning environments and methods of optimizing learning outcomes in VR. Two dancers visited the CAMERA studio to motion capture Hip-Hop dance moves which will be used in...
You can now read Daniela De Angeli et al’s new paper “Unsettling Play: Perceptions of Agonistic Games“, published in the ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, which was nominated by three reviewers for the Best Paper Award. Abstract In this paper, we propose Agonistic Games (AGs) as a serious...
Scientists at the University of Bath have developed a quick and easy approach for capturing 360° VR photography without using expensive specialist cameras.The system uses a commercially available 360° camera on a rotating selfie stick to capture video footage and create an immersive VR experience. Virtual reality headsets are becoming...
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