Author: Andreas Richter

Conference “ARCHIVING 2019” – DIGITIZATION, PRESERVATION, AND ACCESS – LISBON, Portugal

Since the first meeting, Archiving has continued to offer a unique opportunity for imaging scientists and those working in the cultural heritage community (curators, archivists, librarians, etc.), as well as in government, industry, and academia, to come together to discuss the most pressing issues related to the digital preservation and stewardship of hardcopy, audio, and video. The main topics of Archiving 2019 are: 1.) Preservation/Archiving: Standards and guidelines 2.) Digitization: Large scale/ mass digitization and workflow management systems 3.) Preservation/Archiving: Archival models and workflows 4.) Access: Formats for preservation and access   Keynote speakers: Jean-Yves Le Meur, CERN, Digital Memory project leader (Switzerland): CERN’s Digital Memory: When Patrimony Data Meets Scientific Data David Taubman, UNSW Sydney, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, Deputy Head of School (Research), and Kakadu Software Pty. Ltd., Director (Australia): The JPEG2000 Suite of Standards: Capabilities and New Opportunities Jonas Palm, Riksarkivet/National Archives (Sweden): How the Market changed – And the Lives of Photographs   Programme is available here. Registration here.   Venue: Archiving 2019 takes place in two locations: Short courses take place at the Universidade Lusófona in CICANT-Building U, Campo Grande 376. Technical sessions take place in the Auditorium of Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Alameda da Universidade. Use the Auditorium entrance, to the right of the main entrance. Both are located in the Campo Grande section of the city, within a 10-minute walk of each...

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Fraunhofer IGD recruiting full time 3D color imaging research fellow with option for PhD !

Fraunhofer IGD recruits a full time color imaging fellow for three years  within ITN-EVOCATION (EU H2020 research and innovation project under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 813170 ) with an option to do a PhD at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. The main task is to extend existing color management workflows towards a unified and standardized pipeline to establish faithful correspondence between the virtual 3D representation of an object and its physical appearance. The candidate will evaluate existing approaches which ensure color accuracy of 3D models, as well as methods that can improve the overall color management workflow for photogrammetry...

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EXIST Business Start-Up VINS – Humboldt University, Berlin

VINS, a business start-up supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, uses the potential of georeferenced data acquisition, 3D modeling and virtual reality to offer its customers innovative solutions. VINS provides industry-specific software solutions and algorithms for innovative sensor concepts. VINS is developing the VINS-Forst inspection system for the forestry industry. The collection of information is an integral part of sustainable forest management. The automated analysis of the data by means of algorithms makes it possible to carry out an extensive and at the same time detailed forest inventory. With the challenges of climate change and...

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New Standard With Eye Tracking Glasses at 120 Hz

SMI Sets New Standard With Eye Tracking Glasses at 120 Hz SMI’s Eye Tracking Glasses now operate binocular at a native 120 Hz sampling rate across the entire trackable field of view. This allows for low latency synchronization with motion capture, virtual reality and other data streams. In this video, leading researchers from around the world explain how this upgrade will improve the way they use eye tracking in their work. Tom Schorr, Technology Alliances, DS Corporate Development: SMI ETG is a great fit for the Dassault Systemes 3DEXPERIENCE platform with the power to enable new user experiences for Engineering and...

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Roadshow “Industry meets IT” at Fraunhofer HHI, Berlin

Roadshow “Industry meets IT” We cordially invite you to the third stop of our roadshow “Industry meets IT – VR/AR applications for industry” on 26.03.2019. Venue is the CINIQ Center/Smart Data Forum at the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute. With the focus on Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR), we will be investigating the questions: What are the benefits of the technology for production? Which applications are already being used successfully? Dr. Oliver Schreer, Group Leader Immersive Media and Communication at Fraunhofer HHI will give the keynote lecture “Opportunities and Challenges of Virtual and Augmented Reality”. Afterwards, you will...

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