ALIVE – Live Action Lightfields for Immersive Virtual Reality Experiences

ALIVE是一项为期18个月的应用研究项目，旨在通过使用光场捕捉技术来提供比目前可能的更逼真的外观和沉浸感，从而创造出使用实景视频的沉浸式虚拟现实体验。该项目将产生新的算法和方法，纳入先进的软件原型，并在短期的实验生产中进行演示。我们将开发新的方法来精确跟踪移动的多摄像机光场平台；呈现、编辑、后期制作和流媒体沉浸式光场；并将结果渲染为具有真正视差的自由视点视频，以支持观看者头部运动，实时呈现给消费者耳机。该项目联盟由一家领先的中型视觉效果软件开发商（The Foundry）、一家专注于VR体验的中小企业创意制作公司（Figment Productions）和一家专注于多视图数据捕获和处理的领先研究中心（萨里大学）组成。

ALIVE is an eighteen-month applied research project that aims to make it possible to create immersive VirtualReality experiences that use live action video, by using lightfield capture technology to give a much morerealistic appearance and sense of immersion than is currently possible. The project will result in new algorithmsand methods, incorporated in advanced software prototypes and demonstrated in a short experimentalproduction. We will develop new ways of accurately tracking moving multi-camera lightfield rigs; representing,editing, post-producing and streaming immersive light-fields; and rendering the results as free-viewpoint videowith true parallax to support viewer head movement, in real time, to consumer headsets.The project consortium is made up of a leading medium-sized visual effects software developer (The Foundry),an SME creative production company specialising in VR experiences (Figment Productions) and a leadingresearch centre specialising in multi-view data capture and processing (University of Surrey).