Immersive Digital Reality
Abstract
Motivated by the advent of mass-market head-mounted immersive displays, we set out to pioneer the technology needed to experience recordings of the real world with the sense of full immersion as provided by VR goggles.
Immersive Digital Reality
a DFG Reinhart Koselleck Project
Project Summary
Motivated by the advent of mass-market head-mounted immersive displays, we set out to pioneer the technology needed to experience recordings of the real world with the sense of full immersion as provided by VR goggles. To achieve this goal, a number of interdisciplinary, tightly interrelated challenges from video processing, computer graphics, computer vision, and applied visual perception need to be addressed concertedly. By importing the real world into immersive displays, we want to lay the foundations for the way we may watch movies in the future, leaving fixed-viewpoint, limited field-of-view screens behind for a completely immersive, collective experience.
Researchers
Alumni
Job Openings
We are always looking for excellent researchers. Want to join the project?
Talks
| January 12, 2018 | Keynote presentation at VR Walkthrough Technology Day, TU Tampere, Finland (presentation video) |
| April 20, 2017 | Invited talk at Stanford Computer Graphics Lab (GCafe), Stanford University, USA |
| January 23, 2017 | Invited talk at University of Konstanz/SFB TRR 161: "Visual Computing - Bridging Real and Digital Domain" |
Events
| June 30-July 3, 2019 | Real VR - Importing the Real World into Immersive VR and Optimizing the Perceptual Experience of Head-Mounted Displays, Dagstuhl Seminar 19272 |
| June 7-8, 2017 | Symposium on Visual Computing and Perception (SVCP),TU Braunschweig |
In the News
| May 4, 2016 | Article in the local Braunschweiger Zeitung (in German). |
Publications
Comparing Unobtrusive Gaze Guiding Stimuli in Head-mounted Displays
in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), IEEE, October 2018.
Comparison of Unobtrusive Visual Guidance Methods in an Immersive Dome Environment
in ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, vol. 15, no. 4, ACM, October 2018.
Low Cost Setup for High Resolution Multiview Panorama Recording and Registration
in Proc. European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), to appear.
On the Delay Performance of Browser-based Interactive TCP Free-viewpoint Streaming
in Proc. IFIP Networking 2018 Conference (NETWORKING 2018), July 2018.
ICG Real-Time Stereo Dome Projection System
Technical Report no. 1, Computer Graphics Lab, TU Braunschweig, May 2018.
Gaze Guidance in Immersive Environments
Poster @ IEEE Virtual Reality 2018, March 2018.
Automatic Upright Alignment of Multi-View Spherical Panoramas
Poster @ European Conference on Visual Media Production 2017, December 2017.
Best Student Poster Award
Subtle Gaze Guidance for Immersive Environments
in Proc. ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP), ACM, September 2017.
Comparative analysis of three different modalities for perception of artifacts in videos
in ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 1-12, September 2017.
Perception-driven Accelerated Rendering
in Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. of Eurographics EG), vol. 36, no. 2, The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., pp. 611-643, April 2017.
Gaze Visualization for Immersive Video
in Burch, Michael and Chuang, Lewis and Fisher, Brian and Schmidt, Albrecht and Weiskopf, Daniel (Eds.): Eye Tracking and Visualization, Springer, ISBN 978-3319470238, pp. 57-71, March 2017.
Adaptive Image-Space Sampling for Gaze-Contingent Real-time Rendering
Poster @ German Conference on Pattern Recognition 2016, September 2016.
Gaze-contingent Computational Displays: Boosting perceptual fidelity
in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 33, no. 5, IEEE, pp. 139-148, September 2016.
Adaptive Image-Space Sampling for Gaze-Contingent Real-time Rendering
in Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. of Eurographics Symposium on Rendering EGSR), vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 129-139, July 2016.
EGSR'16 Best Paper Award
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