Descripción del proyecto
Una nueva generación de personajes de RV y RA para la animación
La realidad virtual (RV) y la realidad aumentada (RA) están en constante desarrollo y atraen a millones de jugadores de todo el mundo. En este contexto, es importante que el mercado europeo de RV y RA tome algunas medidas a fin de ser competitivo, y ese es exactamente el objetivo del proyecto CLIPE, financiado con fondos europeos. el proyecto atraerá a una nueva generación de innovadores —con formación en la investigación y la industria— para diseñar personajes de RV en producciones de RV/RA. El consorcio CLIPE de socios europeos (que representa disciplinas tan heterogéneas como la infografía y la animación o la psicología y la percepción) capacitará a estudiantes para diseñar la próxima generación de personajes virtuales naturalistas y con una gran capacidad de interacción. Estos personajes estarán basados en una innovadora investigación que combina el aprendizaje automático, la animación y las técnicas de simulación, a fin de introducir realismo, experiencias y capacidades de comunicación.
Objetivo
The primary objective of CLIPE is to train a generation of innovators and researchers in the field of virtual characters
simulation 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 an
important component of these worlds, bringing them to life and giving them interaction and communication abilities requires
highly specialized programming combined with artistic skills, and considerable investments: millions spent on armies of
coders 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 most
important current aspect of the problem: making the characters capable of: behaving more naturally; interacting with real
users 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 research
work in the areas, allowing them to develop character simulation techniques beyond the current frontiers, such as: machine
learning to provide characters with new abilities based on examples, procedural animation techniques to design large-scale
virtual 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 explore
new 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 to
venture there.
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MSCA-ITN - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN)Coordinador
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