Working Group V/4

Virtual Reality and Computer Animation

 

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Comm. V

About The WG

This working group is organized by ISPRS (The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing), Commission V (Close-Range Techniques and Machine Vision). Its goal is to coordinate research and activities, through sharing data and organizing meetings and workshops, that address the following terms:

Terms of Reference

  • Increasing the automation in VR content creation; streamlining the process of creating complex environments from multiple data sources; defining and assessing accuracy requirements.
  • Real-time visualization and interactive manipulation of detailed and highly textured surfaces; defining and assessing realism and level of details requirements.
  • Use of photogrammetric and computer vision techniques for the dynamic analysis of human motion and the animations of virtual characters
  • Promoting VR applications, from reconstructed 3D scenes and human characters, requiring 3D models created with photogrammetric techniques, or with other integrated techniques.
  • Location based services (combination of mobile computational capabilities, imaging capabilities, positioning devices and network access), applications for virtual and augmented reality techniques and mobile information systems.
  • Increasing the collaboration between ISPRS and computer graphics, computer vision, medical/biomedical engineering, human/apparel engineering, and ergonomics communities; cooperation with CIPA, ISB, and ACM-SIGGRAPH.

Co-Chairs

  • Sabry El-Hakim, Visual Information Technology, IIT, NRC, Canada (Sabry.El-Hakim at nrc dot ca)
  • Fabio Remondino, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland (fabio at geod dot baug dot ethz dot ch)

Scientific Secretary

  • Jan Boehm, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Regional Coordinator, Asia

  • Qingquan Li, Wuhan University, China

Duration

The working group will be active from December 2004 to July 2008.