Hirose Tanikawa Lab.

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Hirose-Tanikawa Lab.

Cyber Interface Lab (Hirose-Lab),
The Department of Mechano-Informatics,
Graduate School of Science and Technology,
The University of Tokyo

Keywords

• Virtual Reality
• Augmented Reality
• Mixed Reality
• Visualization
• Human Interface
• Real World
• Ubiquitous
• Information and Robotics Technology (IRT)
• Digital Public Art (DPA)

About Cyber Interface Lab.

Our research laboratory focuses on building a high level user interface that unites human and computer, called Cybernetic Interface.

Starting with virtual reality technology (VR), we seek to research and develop such interface in detail. Specifically, we are designing multimodal interfaces, mixed reality (MR) research, wearable computers, and contents for ubiquitous computing research For example, we are working on real world oriented virtual reality interfaces, such as distributed wide-screen display system that enriches the openness and spacious nature of the real world environment; and material based display that facilitates tangible interaction in real world environment.

Furthermore, we are also researching various techniques to generate high quality visualization. Real time computation is necessary in order to generate high quality visualization, and in order to achieve that, we utilize image-based-rendering algorithm on real live video images to generate a high quality rendering in real time for the virtual environments.

In addition, we are also developing a tele-immersion communication system through the large-bandwidth gigabit communication network. Unlike current video conferencing technology that only displays live video images in 2D; we construct a high quality video avatar of the remote participant based on the live video images. Specifically, we use many cameras placed in the real environment (ubiquitous cameras) to capture live video of human, and we use the captured images to construct a 3D video avatar, and project it in display systems such as the distributed wide-screen system.