I-Corps: Low-Cost Holographic TelePresence System

I-Corps：低成本全息网真系统

• 批准号: 2049875
• 负责人: Tao Han
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-02-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2049875&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Low; Cost; Holographic; TelePresence

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is to commercialize a low-cost holographic telepresence system for the professional sports industry. The system can effectively improve performance and reduce the cost for the sports clubs and coaches in recruiting and training athletes from anywhere in the world. The holographic telepresence may significantly improve the efficiency of remote working and online training and spur new use cases and services improving quality of life. Through this project, the team aims to translate their fundamental research on ubiquitous machine vision systems to the market place via customer discovery. The team plans to integrate the knowledge learned from this project into their courses, senior design projects, and the mentoring of graduate students. In this way, they will cultivate next-generation engineers and researchers who can translate technologies into commercial products and help grow the economy. This I-Corps project explores the commercial potential of a low-cost holographic telepresence system. The holographic telepresence system involves core technologies from advanced wireless communications, edge computing systems, and computer vision. The current market segment for this project is the sports industry, specifically collegiate sports and professional gymnasiums. The outcomes of the project will provide insights into the commercialization of new technologies that enable future holographic communication systems including multi-camera intelligent fusion methods that reliably construct the point cloud (a set of data points in space) from multiple cameras with temporal consistency, real-time adaptive point cloud compression and transmission methods that efficiently compress the point cloud based on the requirement of the service quality, and real-time network-aware artificial intelligence (AI)-powered point cloud reconstruction and transmission that can be efficiently transmitted to the smart mixed reality (MR) glass via wireless links.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个I-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是为专业体育行业商业化低成本的全息远程呈现系统。该系统可以有效地提高性能和降低成本的体育俱乐部和教练员招募和训练运动员从世界任何地方。全息远程呈现可以显着提高远程工作和在线培训的效率，并刺激新的用例和服务，提高生活质量。通过该项目，该团队的目标是通过客户发现将他们对无处不在的机器视觉系统的基础研究转化为市场。该团队计划将从该项目中学到的知识融入他们的课程，高级设计项目和研究生的指导。通过这种方式，他们将培养下一代工程师和研究人员，他们可以将技术转化为商业产品，并帮助经济增长。这个I-Corps项目探索了低成本全息远程呈现系统的商业潜力。全息远程呈现系统涉及先进的无线通信，边缘计算系统和计算机视觉的核心技术。该项目目前的细分市场是体育产业，特别是大学体育和专业体育馆。该项目的成果将为实现未来全息通信系统的新技术的商业化提供见解，包括可靠构建点云的多相机智能融合方法（空间中的一组数据点）从多个相机以时间一致性，真实的-时间自适应点云压缩和传输方法，其基于服务质量的要求有效地压缩点云，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。