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At NAB Show 2018 in Las Vegas Fraunhofer HHI will present a future video coding proposal beyond HEVC, 3D Human Body Reconstruction for VR and AR, and continuous live video streaming of high-resolution 360-degree video for Virtual Reality (VR360) at Fraunhofer Booth SU4916. These innovations are presented shortly in the following, as will be a […]

FKT, the trade magazine for television, film and electronic media, is looking for in-depth articles or case studies (in German or English) presented in an objective manner and on a professional, technologically advanced level. If your topic is not covered in the upcoming issues, please contact the editors to discuss a possible publication. For some […]

VVoW is a new project run by the 3IT partners Trotzkind GmbH, reallifefilm international GmbH and the Fraunhofer HHI’s Vision and Imaging Technologies Department. Using the new volumetric video studio, which is part of the 3IT facilities, the aim of VVoW is a new 3D reconstruction and modelling method for real people based on a […]

V-SENSE conducts creative experiments to explore the new potential opened up by its cutting edge technologies when combined with creative arts in real productions. In collaboration with the School of Drama and the School of Engineering of Trinity College Dublin, V-SENSE produced a reinterpretation of Samuel Beckett’s ground-breaking 1963 text “Play” with a view to […]

In January 2018 the Advanced Imaging Society (AIS) honored 13 women in entertainment, arts and technology with the Distinguished Leadership Award. Kathleen Schröter, Head of Marketing and Corporate Communications at Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, HHI, received the award for her efforts to bring the scientific approaches of imaging technologies into the media industry. She accepted […]

Each year the Advanced Imaging Society (AIS) honors outstanding technical achievements in the entertainment, arts and technology sector. Developers of technologies and processes, which have demonstrated both innovation and impact in advancing the creation or delivery of quality content, are awarded. In particular, Fraunhofer HHI won the AIS Technology Innovation Award 2018 for the development […]

The design akademie berlin, SRH Hochschule für Kommunikation und Design has been a partner of the 3IT, former 3DIC, from the very beginning. Professor Sebastian Denz is a representative of the university and focuses on 3D photography and spatial media. He started to participate in networking events of the 3IT in 2012, where he met […]

New algorithms and demonstrators are being developed to enable a promising use of stereophotogrammetry for new application fields in the near future within the framework of the BMWi funded project 3DInMed. The article “3D-Endoskopie: Kinotechnik für die berührungslose Vermessung”, by Jean-Claude Rosenthal from Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute and Johannes Ruhhammer from SCHÖLLY FIBEROPTIC GmbH is the cover […]