Introductory Talk (internship with CG group)

Jean-Baptiste Daval studies computer science at ENS Cachan. He will be realizing his bachelor thesis by an internship with the Rendering and Modeling group where he will be supervised by Stefan Ohrhallinger. His topic is "Skype 3D": Video conferencing (e.g. Skype) records and displays flat, static image frames. In order to provide a more realistic (plastic and dynamic) appearance, the viewer should be able to move their head a bit 'around' the other person. This requires tracking the viewer's head's location, recording the viewee in stereo, e.g. Kinect depth images and reproject the input point cloud according to the viewer's position. See here for a headtracking example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s51IIjSQsw