Andrea Bottino - Ongoing Projects

Research projects

Non-intrusive Motion Capture

Objectives: reconstruction of the motion of human subjects using multiple cameras

Motion Recognition

Objectives: recognition and classification of human movements

Virtual mouse

Objectives: capturing and reconstructing non intrusively the motion of the hand in order to use it as a virtual 3D mouse into a virtual environment

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Virtual Draping

Objectives: development of physically-based modelling techniques and of quantitative comparison methods between virtual and real drapings

Visual Hull

Objectives: development of visual-hull related algorithms

Sensor Positioning

Objectives: development of novel algorithms for placing an optimal number of sensors in order to observe all the features of 2D and 3D environemnts

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Head tracking and facial expression reconstruction

Objectives: tracking heads from uncalibrated video sequences and recovering facial expressions to create an MPEG4 FAP stream
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House Of Ego

Virtual Reality Environments for treating Phobias

Objectives: evaluate the effectiveness of virtual reality exposure for individuals suffering from certain kind of phobias (agoraphobia, claustrophobia, acrophobia)
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