Projects supervised in function as head of
"Immersive Media & 3D Vision" group (since 2000)

Advanced Three-Dimensional
Television System Technology (ATTEST)

Keywords: 3D-TV, MPEG Coding, Digital Video Broadcast (DVB), Stereo Vision, Video plus Depth, Image Based Rendering, Layered Depth Images. Duration: 1.4.2002-31.3.2004. Funded by European Commission under Grant Number IST-2001-34396

Immersive Tele-Presence in the Internet (ITI)

Keywords: Computer Vision, Immersive 3D Video-Conference, Segmentation, Disparity Estimation, Image Based Rendering, Head tracking, MPEG-4 Coding. Duration: 1.7.2000-30.6.2003. Funded by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under Grant Number: 01 AK 022.

Virtual Team User Environments (ITI)

Keywords: Immersive Tele-Presence, 3D Video Processing, Video-Conference, Tele-Collaboration, Shared Virtual Environments. Duration: 1.1.2000-31.12.2002. Funded by European Commission under Grant Number IST-1999-10044.

Digital Cinema (Dcin)

Keywords: Immersive Projection Techniques, Digital Camera, HDTV Distribution, MPEG-2 Coding, Hardware Implementations. Duration: 1.10.2001-31.3.2002. Funded by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

Image Processing for Immersive TV (BIF)

Keywords: Immersive Television, Post-Production, Layered Depth Video. Duration: 1.4.2001-31.3.2003. Funded by German Research Society (DFG).

Multi-View Synthesis with Parallel Camera Geometry (MUVIS)

Keywords: Immersive 3D Video Conferencing, Stereo Vision, Multiple Narrow-Baseline Systems, Image Based Rendering. Duration: 1.1.2001-31.12.2002. Funded by German Research Society (DFG).

Algorithms for 3D Real-Time Video Conference System (3D-EVI)

Keywords: Immersive 3D Video Conferencing, Stereo Vision, Wide-Baseline Systems, Disparity Estimation, Real-Time Software Implementation. Duration: 1.8.2000-31.7.2003. Funded by German Research Society (DFG)

Virtual Views for Immersive TV Applications (VITA)

Keywords: Immersive TV, Multi-View Stereo, Wide-Baseline Systems, Tri-Focal Constraints, Image Based Rendering, Free Navigation Tele-Vision. Duration: 1.1.2000-31.12.2001. Funded by German Research Society (DFG).

Prototype System for Immersive TV (ImTV)

Keywords: Immersive TV, High Resolution Projection, Head Mounted System, Hardware Demonstrator, Multiple MPEG-2 Decoding, Panoramic Video. Duration: 1.1.2000-31.12.2001. Funded by British Independent Television Commission (ITC).

Projects managed in function as project leader (1991-1999)

Video Compression and Representation for Interactive Services (VPID)

Keywords: MPEG-4, Virtual Reality, Interactive Services, Interactive TV, Immersive TV, Video Segmentation, Object-Based Video Coding, Shape Adaptive DCT, Disparity Estimation, Virtual View Synthesis. Duration: 1.1.1997-31.12.1999. Funded by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research under Grant Number 01 BN 701.

New Multimedia Services Using Analysis Synthesis (NEMESIS)

Keywords: Advanced Tools for Post-Production, Video Segmentation, Feature Point Tracking, Rotoscopy, Mosaicing, Object Registration. Duration: 1.9.1996-30.8.2000. Funded by European Commission under Grant Numbers under IT 22012 and IT 28265.

Intelligent Coding for Image Communication and Multimedia (ICBM)

Keywords: Object-Based Coding, Image Analysis, Image Synthesis, Video Segmentation, MPEG-4 Video Coding, Subband Coding, VBR Coding. Duration: 1.1.1993-31.12.1996. Funded by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research under Grant Number 01 BK 411.

Digital Tape Recording for HDTV (ICBM)

Keywords: Digital Recording, High Definition TV, MPEG Coding, Transform Coding, Error Recovery, Concealment, Lossless Coding. Duration: 1.7.1989-31.12.1992. Funded by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research under Grant Number TK 450 1.

Projects participating in as research assistant (1984-1990)

HDTV Camera Exploiting Spatio-Temporal Resolution of Human Visual System

Keywords: High Definition TV, Subband Coding, Pyramid Coding, Camera Model, Aperture Correction, HDTV standardisation, chromakey, edge enhancement, noise weighting, up conversion. Duration: 1.7.1986-30.6.1989. Funded by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research under Grant Number TK 433 5.

Visual Parameters for large Screen Displays

Keywords: High Definition TV, Colour Coding, Colorimerty, Signal processing, Digital Filter Design, Sampling Structures. Duration: 1.4.1983-30.6.1986. Funded by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research under Grant Number TK 418 3.