Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

FP7 Projects

FP7 NoE - V-MusT.net (2011-2015):

partners available at http://www.v-must.net/participants

Leader: S. Pescarin (CNR - Italy)

V-MusT.net is a new European Network of Excellence dedicated to Virtual Museums. A Virtual Museum is a personalized, immersive, interactive experience that aims to enhance our understanding of the past in museums or on the Internet. The V-Must.net network enables heritage professionals around the world to connect, collaborate and advance the development and use of virtual museums.

FP7 ITN - PRISM “Perceptual Representations for Illumination, Shape and Materials” (2013-2016):

Giessen University, Université Paris-Descartes, Bilkent University, Université de Leuven, Delft University, Birmingham University, Philips and NextLimit

Leader: Roland Fleming (Giessen University)

The goal of this project is to better understand how the human visual system understands images in terms of meaningful components: How is shape perceived consistently in varying illumination conditions and for different materials? To which extent are humans able to guess the main illumination directions in a scene? What visual properties do we make use of to estimate the material an object is made of without touching it? Answering these questions will require inter-disciplinary research and collaborations.