Projects
Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits
Projects
Prime – Production and Projection technologies for immersive media
Producing 3D content is still extremely complex, time-consuming and expensive. PRIME pursues the objective to use digital content in the field of 3D Cinema, 3D TV and 3D Games effectively. Thus new technical processes have to be developed for recording, production and postproduction as well as for the presentation of contents on different terminals. The new generation of miniaturized HD-Cameras , 3D postproduction tools as well as projectors with improved optical features concerning 3D projections are successful examples of the project results, developed in the course of the PRIME-Project. Another highlight of the project are a video-workstation, which supports manufacturing stereoscopic contents and which was used in the postproduction of Avatar.
Especially the economic reference in implementing 3D contents is considerable. You can find further information
SAISBECO
Not only for animal safety but also in behavioural science identification of individuals is indispensible. So far, data produced by camera traps or through acoustical recordings are difficult, slowly and with a high manual workload interpretable. Aim of the project is the development of new software methods for the recognition of individuals. Owing to the Know-How at Fraunhofer they are going to develop a system for the object and face recognition , for classification as well as a semiautomatic system to recognize individuals by means of audio-visual data. With this capabilities the behavioural science, identification of biodiversity and population monitoring improve significantly. First preliminary works with audio-visual data have already been done. In the meantime, producer sells camera traps global, in a high amount.
EDCINE Enhanced Digital Cinema
Fraunhofer IIS worked in the application field "Digital film archives" within the EU project ECDCINE together with european partners on the development and evaluation of new digital based concepts for film archives. The main topics which were addressed are long-term archiving of digital data and easy access for material exchange.
WORLDSCREEN
Within the WORLDSCREEN Project concepts and systems were developed which allow a complete digital 2k/4k workfolw for Digital Cinema and Cross Media Conversion using layered-scheme data compression like JPEG2000. The results were presented to an expert audience at Berlinale 2007 and NAB 2007 in Las Vegas.
CineVision2006
New technologies and systems for Digital Cinema were the scope within CineVision2006. New camera and sensor technology, transmission, server and projection technologies were developed and tested. At the Soccer World Cup 2006 in Germany a demonstration was shown at the CinemaXX theatre in Berlin, Potsdamer Platz as well as in April 2007 at the Brendon Theater in Las Vegas.
„Airfield Monitor – Safer Monitoring of Runway Conditions“
The project “Airfield Monitor”, supported by the EU, is about the development of a technology with which insecure airplane runways shall be detected.
The job of the department of imaging sensors at Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) is, to develop a camera which afford optical differentiation between wet, snow-capped or frosted surface of the runway, using polarised light.
ToF 2D3D Video Surveillance
- Abb. 3: Personendetektion mit und ohne Auswertung der Entfernung
The project „ToF 2D3D Video Surveillance“ which is partially supported by the bavarian ministery of economics (Bayerisches Wirtschaftsministerium) is a cooperation between Fraunhofer IIS and partners from industry and university. The focus of this project lies on the exploitation of 3D image data for improving quality and reliability of video surveillance systems. The depth information is obtained via the time-of-flight method, where the object distance is calculated from the time that and infrared light impulse requires to be reflected from the object surface back to the camera sensor. The Fraunhofer IIS subproject comprises the development of a novel embedded camera system which is capable of acquiring time-of-flight images and optical images simultaneously. Moreover, parts of the algorithms for image recognition and object detection are to be computed by the camera. So, besides the image data, the camera system will provide information e.g. about the number of persons or cars detected or the velocity of a moving object.
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