3DLife kick-off meeting from January12-14 2010

The kick-off meeting for, 3DLife: Bringing the Media Internet to Life, an EU FP7 Network of Excellence in which CLARITY is a partner, will be held  in Queen Mary University in London from Jamuary 12-143DLife is a new FP7 Network of Excellence (started 01 Jan 2010) that will integrate leading European research groups to create a long-term integration of critical mass for innovation of currently fragmented research addressing media Internet. The main objectives of the project are:

·         to foster the creation of sustainable relationships between existing national research groups and to start development of a Virtual Centre of Excellence in the field;

·         to create sufficient momentum by integrating an existing large number of researchers and resources and to push forward new paradigms on 3D media communication and interaction over the Internet;

·        to influence the European and world research agenda in several key aspects of 3D Media Internet.

3DLife will integrate complementary expertise, enable resource optimization and sharing, and foster research in Media Internet technology. 3DLife addresses wide, Pan-European integration through dedicated activities aiming at sharing laboratory facilities, technological developments and resources, including people. 

Other partners besides CLARITY:

Multimedia and Vision Research Group, Queen Mary University of London, U.K. (Coordinator)
Computer Graphics Research Group, Institut Télécom, France
Audio Processing Research Group, Institut Telecom, France
Human Factors Department, Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany
Image Processing Department, Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany
MIRALab Research Group, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Centre for Research and Technology Hellas/Informatics & Telematics Institute, Greece