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DIgital DYnaMic and respOnsible twinS for XR

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Better digital twins to drive the future of cities and industries

The digital transformation and the availability of more diversified and cost-effective means for 3D capture have led to the creation of digital twins also for physical environments. Based on such digital twins, various applications could be built using real-time data from real-world environments, serving as a blueprint for smart cities and for improving performance and efficiency across industries. Currently, creating high-fidelity digital twins is costly, and their update requires manual intervention. Furthermore, data integration from heterogeneous sensors is challenging. The EU-funded DIDYMOS-XR project will implement technology to create improved large-scale digital twins, synchronised with the real world. DIDYMOS-XR will investigate and develop methods for data reconstruction and mapping from heterogeneous inputs, including static and mobile sensors, AI-based data fusion, scene understanding and rendering.

Objective

The digital transformation and the availability of more diverse and cost-effective methods for 3D capture has led to the creation of digitised representations of parts of our public spaces, machinery and processes, so-called Digital Twins. These Digital Twins are an important basis for building advanced XR applications for cityscapes and the industrial environments. These XR applications need high-fidelity models for accurate localization, which are kept in-sync with the real world. However, currently (i) creating high-fidelity Digital Twins is costly, (ii) integrating data from heterogeneous sensors is still challenging and (iii) the update of Digital Twins requires explicit manual intervention.
The vision of DIDYMOS-XR is to enable advanced, more realistic and more dynamic extended reality (XR) applications, powered through artificial intelligence. The project thus focuses on advancing technologies for creating large-scale digital twins, synchronised with the real world. DIDYMOS-XR will research and develop methods for reconstruction and mapping from heterogeneous inputs, including static and mobile sensors, AI-based data fusion, scene understanding and rendering. Digtal twin based XR applications also require means of accurately positioning in the environment, aware of the dynamics of the scene, also addresed by the project.
The capture of scenes at scale, as well as using cameras and other sensor data for synchronising the digital representation, bears the risk of capturing personal and sensitive data. Hence, the technologies resulting from DIDYMOS-XR must be and will be ethical and privacy-aware by design.
In order to demonstrate and validate the enabling technologies researched and developed in DIDYMOS-XR, the project will address use cases of XR applications in two domains that differ in their scale and characteristics. One is urban planning and smart mobility, the other is the collaboration with autonomous mobile robots at an industrial production facility.

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Call for proposal

HORIZON-CL4-2022-HUMAN-01

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RIA - Research and Innovation action

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JOANNEUM RESEARCH FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH
Net EU contribution
€ 776 000,00
Address
Leonhardstrasse 59
8010 Graz
Austria

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Südösterreich Steiermark Graz
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EC signature date 19 November 2022
Last update: 25 November 2022

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