The ORIGAMI Project: Advanced Tools for Creating and Mixing Real and Virtual Content in Film and TV Production
Oliver Grau, Reinhard Koch, Fabio Lavagetto, Augusto Sarti, Stefano Tubaro, Jan Woetzel
"The ORIGAMI Project: Advanced Tools for Creating and Mixing Real and Virtual Content in Film and TV Production",
Vision, Image and Signal Processing, IEE Proceedings Journal, volume 152, issue 4, pages 69-84, August 2005
Abstract
The goal of the EC-funded IST project ORIGAMI was the development of advanced tools and new
production techniques for high-quality and seamless integration of real and virtual content in film and TV
productions. In particular, the project focused on pre-production tools for automatic virtual set creation
through image-based 3D modelling of environments and objects. One key goal of the project was to achieve
real-time in-studio pre-visualisation of the virtual elements (objects and actors) of the extended set. In this
contribution we illustrate the studio pre-visualisation system that has been developed for the project, and we
describe its usage within a high-end film and TV production environment. Furthermore we give an overview
of the developed solutions for automatic generation of 3D models of environments, static objects and
(moving) actors.
Keywords: Camera motion estimation, 3D Shape reconstruction, level-set evolution, TV production, virtual reality
Jan Woetzel (jw@mip.informatik.uni-kiel.de)