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The Research and Technological Development within IP-RACINE includes both long-term research and medium-term work that is designed to result in next generation products and services at the end of the project. The RTD clusters into the following areas, which will give rise to specific Activities:
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Research and Development of the overall workflow and data handling, storage, and processing through each of the creative stages in the movie making process. This research includes the specification and validation of integrated metadata concepts and the development of database approaches that facilitate collaborative working.
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Research and Development of optimal methods of capturing, storing and pre-processing data from 2-D and 3-D digital cameras with the quality, resolution and formats required for cinematic display.
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Research and Development of 3-D Imaging for Virtual Film Studios. This will include the development of tools for conversion of data from 3-D to 2-D and 2-D to 3-D, building and rendering 3-D virtual studios in real time, including both coherent visual and audio aspects, and the incorporation of interaction with real and virtual characters. Also included in this research will be techniques to alter in 3-D the ‘point of view’ of material, no matter how this material is acquired
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Research into high-level data descriptions necessary to define and repurpose aspects of the data (characters/objects/plots) in the same, or different media, with improved processing efficiency and scalable resolution playout. This will be accompanied by the technical development of real-time processing devices to handle the resulting data and processes, and integrate them in the digital workflow.
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Research into the playout and projection technologies, resulting in much more cost effective and efficient systems, which are also capable of providing novel and compelling forms of entertainment. These include high quality 3-D projection systems, and new entertainment consisting of live and pre-recorded material combined seamlessly.
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