Project description DEENESFRITPL Next-gen VR/AR characters for animation industry As virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) worlds and technologies continue to develop and attract millions of gamers all over the world, the European AR/VR market must take steps to become competitive. The EU-funded CLIPE project aims to achieve this by bringing a new generation of innovators – trained in research and for the industry – in the field of designing VR-ready characters for VR/AR productions. The CLIPE consortium of European partners, who represent fields ranging from computer graphics and animation to psychology and perception, will train students to design the next generation of naturalistic, highly interactive virtual characters. These will be based on innovative research combining machine learning, animation, and simulation techniques to introduce realistic quality, experiences and communication abilities. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective The primary objective of CLIPE is to train a generation of innovators and researchers in the field of virtual characterssimulation and animation and help bringing Europe at the forefront of the field.Advances in technology are pushing towards making VR/AR worlds a daily experience. Whilst virtual characters are animportant component of these worlds, bringing them to life and giving them interaction and communication abilities requireshighly specialized programming combined with artistic skills, and considerable investments: millions spent on armies ofcoders and designers to develop video-games is a typical example.The research objective of CLIPE is to design the next-generation of VR-ready characters. CLIPE is addressing the mostimportant current aspect of the problem: making the characters capable of: behaving more naturally; interacting with realusers sharing a virtual experience with them; being more intuitively and extensively controllable for virtual worlds designers.To meet our objectives, the CLIPE consortium gathers the main European actors in the field of VR/AR, computer graphics,computer animation, psychology and perception. The project will expose young researchers to the state-of-the-art researchwork in the areas, allowing them to develop character simulation techniques beyond the current frontiers, such as: machinelearning to provide characters with new abilities based on examples, procedural animation techniques to design large-scalevirtual population of characters, perceptual studies to evaluate character simulation quality and communication abilities.CLIPE also extends its partnership to key industrial actors of populated virtual worlds, giving students the ability to explorenew application fields and start collaborations beyond academia. Finally, a thorough training program will equip the young researchers with many of the skills required to succeed in the very competitive industry/start-up world, if they decide toventure there. Fields of science social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementinnovation managementsocial sciencespsychologynatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learningnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationsvideo games Keywords Virtual Humans Computer Graphics Animation Virtual Reality Augmented Reality Computer Games Interactive Systems Programme(s) H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Main Programme H2020-EU.1.3.1. - Fostering new skills by means of excellent initial training of researchers Topic(s) MSCA-ITN-2019 - Innovative Training Networks Call for proposal H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme MSCA-ITN - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN) Coordinator UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS Net EU contribution € 353 755,08 Address Avenue panepistimiou 2109 aglantzi 1678 Nicosia Cyprus See on map Region Κύπρος Κύπρος Κύπρος Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA Spain Net EU contribution € 501 809,76 Address Calle jordi girona 31 08034 Barcelona See on map Region Este Cataluña Barcelona Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET AUTOMATIQUE France Net EU contribution € 549 604,08 Address Domaine de voluceau rocquencourt 78153 Le chesnay cedex See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Yvelines Activity type Research Organisations Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON United Kingdom Net EU contribution € 606 345,12 Address Gower street WC1E 6BT London See on map Region London Inner London — West Camden and City of London Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN Ireland Net EU contribution € 473 067,44 Address College green trinity college D02 CX56 Dublin 2 See on map Region Ireland Eastern and Midland Dublin Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV Germany Net EU contribution € 575 795,80 Address Hofgartenstrasse 8 80539 Munchen See on map Region Bayern Oberbayern München, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Research Organisations Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN Sweden Net EU contribution € 281 982,96 Address Brinellvagen 8 100 44 Stockholm See on map Region Östra Sverige Stockholm Stockholms län Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE France Net EU contribution € 549 604,08 Address Route de saclay 91128 Palaiseau cedex See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Essonne Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 SILVERSKY3D VR TECHNOLOGIES LTD Cyprus Net EU contribution € 117 918,36 Address M napoleontos 6 flat office 203 1057 Nicosia See on map SME The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed. 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