Engineering & Computer Science

Animation-reality blur

Computer animation has brought characters to life on screen across the world, but its potential is only just being realised. PhD student Yifan Lu is part of a team of researchers at the Department of Information Engineering, CECS, that is looking at pushing the boundaries of today's technology to produce tomorrow's animated film as just one aspect of its research in computer vision.

The research team including Professor Richard Hartley, Dr Lei Wang, and Dr Hongdong Li, focuses on markerless human motion capture that uses cameras instead of markers on a performer's body to record their movements. This is a complex area of research requiring advanced algorithms to record a person's movements in real time.

Read the full story in the Sunday Canberra Times, 13 July 2008