CVMT

The Computer Vision & Media Technology Laboratory (CVMT) was founded in 1984 as The Laboratory of Image Analysis (LIA). The laboratory staff varies from 10-15 people including Ph.D. students and support staff. The major research areas of the laboratory are:
* Computer Vision
* Multimedia interfaces
* Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality Systems
* Autonomous systems and agents
The research within Computer Vision is aimed at selected methodological problems like exploitation of colour information, building object and scene models, and at the development of complete real-time vision systems for continuous observation of dynamic scenes for e.g. Multimedia Interfaces with human computer interaction or surveillance tasks. This includes control and concentration of the system resources towards current “focus of attention”, use of temporal context, and control of camera motion and camera parameters. In the field of computer vision there are currently Ph.D. projects on human motion capture, gesture recognition, colour vision (skin colour in particular), and tracking of multiple objects (in particular humans).
The Virtual Reality activities explore inhabited virtual worlds with Autonomous Agents and with interaction with users i n the real world. Some of the effort has the theatre metaphor as starting point and source of inspiration, and some projects experiment with virtual theatre.
Other projects experiment with the use of visual worlds for explorative data analysis and data mining.