Elevating entertainment, education, and social networking experience through convergence of immersive video technologies (ELEVATE)

数字媒体正以指数级的速度交织在我们的日常生活结构中，形成了教育、娱乐、社交互动、医疗应用以及我们的生活和工作环境中内容交付系统的支柱。然而，用户对数字内容的感知仍然福尔斯达不到一个具有挑战性的基准接近他们对真实的世界的感知。对于真正沉浸式的数字视频观看体验，用户必须参与到他们忘记他们正在观看由技术介导的人工环境的程度。 我们的目标是通过整合目前在这个方向上的三种独立技术-3D（多视图）视频，高动态范围（HDR）成像和超高清（UHD）-提供的各自优势，实现这种沉浸式，引人入胜，逼真的观看体验。我们将开发一套全面的新方法，以有效地捕获、处理和显示集成的3D HDR UHD内容，以便通过任何网络和一系列播放设备（从剧院屏幕到移动的手机）进行观看。将在积极参与的用户需要时提供无缝增强现实增强功能。通过用户体验质量测试最大限度地提高观众的参与度和舒适度将是我们工作的一个组成部分。其结果将是一个无与伦比的无眼镜，积极沉浸和引人入胜的观看体验。每个阶段都将由我们的行业合作伙伴进行指导和评估，以确保我们研究的商业可行性。 由此带来的沉浸感的飞跃将极大地增加所观看内容的影响力，对教育和培训、娱乐、社交网络、广告和相关行业产生深远的影响。加拿大的教育机构、制造业、娱乐业和通信公司采用这项技术，将获得比竞争对手更大的优势。

Digital media are becoming interwoven into the fabric of our daily lives at an exponential rate, forming the backbone of content delivery systems in education, entertainment, social interaction, medical applications, and our living and working environments. However, the user's perception of digital content still falls short of a challenging benchmark-approximating their perception of the real world. For a truly immersive digital video viewing experience, the user must be engaged to the extent that they forget they are viewing an artificial environment, mediated by technology. Our goal is to enable such an immersive, engaging, lifelike viewing experience by integrating the respective advantages offered by three separate technologies currently reaching in this direction-3D (multiview) video, High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging, and ultra-high definition (UHD). We will develop a comprehensive suite of new methods to efficiently capture, process, and display integrated 3D HDR UHD content, for viewing over any network and on a range of playback devices, from theatre screens to mobile phones. Provision will be made for seamless augmented reality enhancements when desired by an actively engaged user. Maximizing the viewer's level of engagement and comfort through user quality of experience testing will be an integral component of our work. The result will be an unsurpassed glasses-free, actively immersive and engaging viewing experience. Each stage will be guided and assessed by our industry partners to ensure the commercial viability of our research. The resulting leap in immersiveness will dramatically increase the impact of content being viewed, with profound implications for education and training, entertainment, social networking, advertising, and related sectors. Canadian educational institutions, and manufacturing, entertainment, and communications companies adopting this technology will gain a significant advantage over their competitors.