HOLOTWIN aims to strengthen and stimulate the research excellence and innovation capacity of the Technical University of Sofia (TUS) in technologies for holographic telepresence systems (HTPS).

The twinning will activate a process of knowledge transfer towards TUS (Bulgaria), which leverages on the academic and research excellence at AU (Denmark), UNiS (UK) and Hellenic American University (Greece) in the chosen area of research with the possibilities to extend beyond the consortium organizations.

The knowledge transfer will be enabled by mentoring, access to research results, networks and experimental infrastructure available at the three supporting organizations with the objective to maximize joint and individual scientific success and to jointly identify, develop, and assess good and transitional practices.

• Joint Workshops;
• High-impact journal publications;
• Expert visits to Bulgaria;
• Entrepreneurial workshops;
• Conference papers;
• Participation in conferences and Special Session Chairing.

• 3D human body model acquisition and human avatar creation
  • Design a calibration procedure that allows us to obtain reliable data from the RGB-D devices, and to use multiple devices in a coherent reference frame;
  • Reconstruction and parameterization of a 3D human body model from RGB -D data;
  • Multi-view deformable 3D models of face and hands;
  • Design and simulation of realistic clothing.
• Real-time 3D avatar animation and rendering
  • Methods for semantic annotation and prediction of human activities;
  • Integration of sematic aspects into strategies for synthesis of biometric data;
  • Methods and algorithms for real-time photorealistic animation of the avatar’s body and head movement;
  • Deep Neural network-based rendering of the 3D avatar.
• Context-dependent semantic models for holographic communication
  • Measurement of semantic information and compression of semantic data;
  • Use case scenario – Bee cube holographic telepresence.

TeliLab members related to this project

Radostina Petkova

PhD Student

Agata Manolova

Affiliate Researcher

Nicole Christoff

Affiliate Researcher

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