Visual Media Research Platform Grant

2003年颁发的视觉媒体平台资助成功地支持了视觉媒体研究在CVSSP内的扩展，通过长期稳定地支持重要的有经验的博士后研究人员。从战略上讲，该平台资助为追求冒险研究提供了灵活性，为启动一些新的研究项目和与行业和国际研究团体的合作提供了基础。大量经验的稳定支持使该小组的研究资助组合在2003-07年期间翻了一番。此外，该平台赠款还直接推动了两项新技术的商业化开发：面部动态3D视频捕捉；以及全身表面动作捕捉。该平台资助启动了许多与美国、欧洲和日本领先研究团队的国际合作。EPSRC对视觉媒体研究的平台资助对于提高研究小组和个人研究人员的国际形象和影响力的战略目标至关重要，通过使冒险的研究为最先进的技术做出贡献。该平台授权更新的战略目标是为CVSSP内的视觉媒体研究引领国际基础研究，开拓直接影响行业实践的新技术。该基金于2003年设立，旨在支持重点博士后研究人员的长期研究，开拓新的研究方向，并为国际前沿发展做出贡献。要求更新平台赠款，以继续加强所需的专业知识和专业设施知识的临界质量，以促进基本理解和开拓性新技术的进步。从战略上讲，该平台的更新旨在建立动态场景分析的最新进展，以理解和模拟现实世界的场景。增加与英国娱乐和通信行业的相关性和合作，并专注于与美国（华盛顿），日本（京都）和欧洲（INRIA，MPI，EPFL，KTH，CTU）领导小组在现有平台授权下发起的国际合作。

The Visual Media Platform Grant awarded in 2003 has successfully underpinned the expansion of Visual Media Research within CVSSP by supporting key experienced post-doctoral research personnel on a stable long-term basis. Strategically the platform grant has allowed the flexibility to pursue adventurous research providing the foundation to initiate a number of new research projects and collaborations with both industry and international research groups. Stable support of a critical-mass of experience has led to the groups research grant portfolio doubling over the period 2003-07. In addition the platform grant has directly contributed to pioneering two new technologies leading to commercial exploitation: 3D video capture of facial dynamics; and whole-body surface motion capture. The platform grant has allowed the initiation of a number of international collaborations with leading research teams in the US, Europe and Japan. EPSRC platform grant support for Visual Media Research has been pivotal to meeting the strategic objective of increasing the international profile and impact of the research group and individual researchers by enabling adventurous research contributing step changes to the state-of-the-art.The strategic objective of the platform grant renewal is for the Visual Media Research within CVSSP to lead fundamental research internationally to pioneer new technologies which impact directly on industry practice. This will build on the proven success of the platform grant awarded in 2003 as a mechanism for supporting long-term research continuity of key post-doctoral researchers, pursuing adventurous research to initiate new research directions and contributing advances to the leading edge internationally . Renewal of the platform grant is requested to continue to reinforce the critical mass of expertise and knowledge of specialist facilities required to contribute advances in both fundamental understanding and pioneering new technology. Strategically the platform grant renewal aims to build on recent advances in dynamic scene analysis towards understanding and modelling real-world scenes. Increasing relevance and collaboration with the UK entertainment and communications industries, and focusing on international collaborations initiated under the existing platform grant with leading groups in the US (Washington), Japan (Kyoto) and Europe(INRIA,MPI,EPFL,KTH,CTU).