The HUMODAN project will produce two main demonstrators that will display the capabilities of the systems developed during the project

Dem-1 Demonstrator for Virtual Environments

The main goal of this demonstrator is the Real Time 3D Motion Reconstruction

This demonstrator has been divides into two main phases:

  • Phase 1: Upper Human Body Higher accuracy requirements.
  • Phase 2: Full Human Body Lower accuracy requirements

This demonstrator  allows a Non-invasive optical 3D human motion tracking for Virtual Environments:

  • Improved human interface
  • Real time
  • Automatic
  • Intuitive interaction
  • For avatar reconstruction (remote collaboration)
  • New natural interfaces

The interests of each part are:

Phase 1: demonstrates new innovative interface for engineering applications. The following picture displays the Workbench where the demonstration will take place.

This demonstrator will capture the users movement. The motion will serve to animate the upper body part of an avatar.

The user motion will serve as input for a 3D interactive modeling tool.

 

Phase 2: demonstrates a new interaction concept and can be demonstrated to the general public, which is very important for the project dissemination. This demonstrator

The next images shows the virtual character for this phase:

The following pictures display the virtual characters environment:

Dem-2 Combined Entertainment Demonstrator

The main goal of this demonstrator is the Automatic Non Real Time 3D Motion Reconstruction of the Full Human Body

Non real time realistic human body motion 3D reconstruction and real time simple interaction system:

  • In controlled environments
  • For entertainment apps (TV, gaming)
  • Low cost capture, devices
  • Automatic: User friendly for non specialist users
  • PC based
  • Non-invasive
  • No contact interaction

Commercial value:

  • TV: promotion of new program & its “making of”
  • Dem. targets the TV production and gaming market

This demonstrators features the development of an interactive TV-Show based on the interaction of two children in a virtual environment and with a virtual showman.

 

The showman is a virtual character featuring a Gorilla, displaying thus, the capabilities of the HUMODAN system to animate Humanoid characters.

The children interact with the 3D-environment using their hands