3D-Live

European Commission
Funding Organization:	European Commission
Funding Programme:	FP7 - Information & Communication Technologies
Funding Instrument:	Specific Targeted Research Project
Start Date:	October 30, 2011
Duration:	24 months
Total Budget:	1,737,833 EUR
ITI Budget:	269,195 EUR

The 3D-LIVE project aims to develop and experiment a User Driven Mixed Reality and Immersive platform connected to EXPERIMEDIA facilities (Future Internet Research and Experimentation-FIRE testbeds) in order to investigate the Future Internet (FI) broadband capacity to support Real‐Time immersive situations as well as evaluating both the Quality of Experience (QoE) and Quality of Services when users are fully immersed into Future Internet (IoS and IoT) based live (sport) mixed environments.

The selected FIRE facilities are the CAR sport facility in Barcelona and Schladming sky resort. Of particular interest is the EXPERIMEDIA advancement in new methods and algorithms for content processing targeting the efficient delivery of augmented reality to mobile devices and 3D processing for on the fly reconstruction of live events in indoor geo‐localised spaces.

Publications:

S. Crowle, A. Doumanoglou, B. Poussard, M. Boniface, D. Zarpalas, P. Daras, "Dynamic Adaptive Mesh Streaming for Real-time 3D Teleimmersion" , 20th International Conference on Web 3D Technology, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 18-21, 2015

A. Doumanoglou, D. Alexiadis, D. Zarpalas, P. Daras, "Towards Real-Time and Efficient Compression of Human Time-Varying-Meshes" , IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol: 24, Issue: 12, Dec 2014

D. Alexiadis, A. Doumanoglou, D. Zarpalas, P. Daras, "A case study for tele-immersion communication applications: from 3D capturing to rendering" , IEEE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing, VCIP 2014, Dec 7-10, Valletta, Malta

D. Alexiadis, D. Zarpalas, P. Daras, "Fast and smooth 3D reconstruction using multiple RGB-Depth sensors" , IEEE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing, VCIP 2014, Dec 7-10, Valletta, Malta

B. Poussard, S. Richir, J. Vatjus-Anttila, S. Asteriadis, D. Zarpalas, P. Daras, "3DLIVE: A Multi-Modal Sensing Platform Allowing Tele-Immersive Sports Applications" , 22nd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2014), Lisbon, Portugal, 2-5 Sept. 2014

A. Doumanoglou, D. Alexiadis, S. Asteriadis, D. Zarpalas, P. Daras, "On human time-varying mesh compression exploiting activity-related characteristics" , IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), FLORENCE, ITALY, MAY 4-9, 2014

A. Doumanoglou, S. Asteriadis, D. Alexiadis, D. Zarpalas, P. Daras, "A Dataset of Kinect-based 3D scans" , 11th IEEE IVMSP Workshop: 3D Image/Video Technologies and Applications, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 10-12 June 2013

S. Asteriadis, A. Chatzitofis, D. Zarpalas, D. Alexiadis, P. Daras, "Estimating human motion from multiple Kinect Sensors" , Mirage 2013, 6th International Conference on Computer Vision / Computer Graphics Collaboration Techniques and Applications, June 6–7, 2013, Berlin, Germany

Contact:
Dr. Petros Daras

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News Releases!

The Visual Computing Lab 3DLIVE project in the Greek Newspaper Aggelioforos

February 12, 2015

The Visual Computing Lab presents the achievements of the EU funded 3DLIVE project in the Greek Newspaper Aggelioforos Innovative European technology launches the world’s first real-time mixed reality ski race, Newspaper Aggelioforos, Sunday 8 February 2015 The 3D-LIVE project targeted and managed to develop and experiment a User Driven Mixed Reality and Immersive platform in order to investigate the Future Internet (FI) broadband capacity to support Real‐Time 3D immersive situations as well as evaluating both the Quality of Experience (QoE) and Quality of Services when users are fully immersed into Future Internet based live (sport) mixed environments. The last prototype developed within 3D-LIVE managed to deliver a mixed reality, immersive 3D platform where users can experience, feel and interact with real environments and distant users in real-time. The world’s first real-time mixed reality ski race was broadcasted live at the world-leading Wearable Technologies Conference, in Munich, at the beginning of February 2015. The scenario: A professional skier battled against two online gamers in the world’s first interactive mixed reality downhill ski race using technology pioneered by European researchers within 3D-LIVE. Hitting speeds of up to 100 kilometres an hour, the professional skier hurtled down the world cup ski course in Schladming, Austria, in a bid to reach the finish line before his two competitors – mixed reality gamers based in Thessaloniki, in Greece, and Munich, in Germany. The racers used a 3D tele-immersion platform and new virtual reality technology that allowed them to compete against each other by racing down the same ski slope at the same time. The competition is the culmination of research by the European Commission funded 3D LIVE project. The competitors were able to interact in real-time sharing their experience in a 3D virtual environment delivered over the Internet to wearable immersive devices. The professional skier was wearing Smart Ski Goggles with a heads up display that allowed him to see the virtual world alongside the real slope. The remote indoor competitors played fully immersed in a virtual world using Oculus Rift. By using advanced sensor and gaming technologies to create and manipulate 3D information in real-time, the platform can deliver truly interactive experiences closely linked to real world activities. This innovative technology will open up the opportunity for new types of live games that combine digital and real interaction in many different competitive sports. 3D LIVE games have been developed for Golfers, Runners and now skiing, transforming game play and social interaction.

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3D Live at Wearable Technologies Conference 2015

February 12, 2015

Munich, Germany, 2-3 Feb. 2015 The world’s 1st mixed reality ski competition organized by 3DLive took place at the 15th Wearable Technologies Conference Munich, Germany, 2-3 Feb 2015. A professional skier raced at Schladming (Austria), one of the word’s famous ski slopes, against two online gamers located in Munich and Thessaloniki, Greece. All the players were immersed into the same virtual world and run against each other for the winning trophy. The virtual world was a 3D replica of the real ski slope at Schladming. The professional skier was equipped with a smartphone and smart ski googles that allowed him to see the virtual world, the rest of the players and information concerning the race. He was represented into the virtual world as an avatar. The online gamer at Munich was using a Microsoft Kinect, an Oculus Rift and a Wii balance board. He was immersed into the virtual word as an avatar that accurately followed his movements via motion capturing technology provided by the Kinect. Via the Wii board the gamer was able to navigate on the slope while the Oculus Rift would allow him to see the other replicas of the users and enhance the experience of immersion into the 3D world. On the other hand, at Thessaloniki, CERTH, the gamer was utilizing 4 Microsoft Kinects for motion sensing and a Wii balance board for navigation. This setup allowed for the gamer to be 3d reconstructed and immersed into the game, enhancing the interaction with others. All the participants were wearing a headset and were in a continuous voice communication before, during and after the race. After 4 races, the Greek gamer won the game and lifted the winning trophy.

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BBC presents the 3DLIVE project

February 12, 2013

BBC covered the 3DLive platform’s ski scenario during the project final experiments! “A prototype sports simulator which allows users to race against real skiers in real-time is being developed. The skier’s mobile phone sends his GPS location to the virtual reality simulator, while the competitor’s position is relayed to the other skier through a small display in his goggles.” You can watch it here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02jc4km

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