Sample Projects

Carpeno	cAR/PE! + COENO	10/2005-now
	In this project we combined the two frameworks of cAR/PE! (developed by Holger Regenbrecht and Coeno. This allows a novel video conference setup with all the advantages of the interactive table of Coeno and the video conference features of cAR/PE!
	Funding: - Partner: Otago University (NZ), HITLabNZ (NZ)

OOT	Office Of Tomorrow	8/2005-8/2008
	The purpose of this project is to develop multimodal interfaces, immersive workspaces and new in/output devices that will improve the office of tomorrow.
	Funding: FFG (FHplus, no. 811407) Partner: voestalpine Informationstechnologie, TEAM 7 Website: http://www.officeoftomorrow.org

Leonardo	A multi-national exploration in Interaction design education and research	11/2004-10/2007
	About 50 students from Europe and New Zealand will be able to take part in the program which will foster an exchange of knowledge in the area of multimedia development and design.
	Funding: EU/NZ Partner: Wanganui, Canterbury, Waikato, Lancaster, Ljubljana, Nottingham. Website: www.eu-nz.org

AMIRE-ES	AMIRE for mobile devices	10/2003-6/2004
	A mobile version of the AMIRE framework designed for PDA environments including video see-through 3D rendering and optical tracking.
	Funding: C-Lab, OMV Partner: AMIRE consortium, TU Vienna (IMS)

ReSi	Reality Simulation	10/2003-6/2004
	Based on a graphics engine and open-source libraries, the overall goal of this project was to implement a VR framework with an integrated physics engine.
	Funding: FAW Partner: FAW

AMIRE	Authoring Mixed Reality	03/2002-6/2004
	The goal of AMIRE is an efficient creation and modification of mixed reality applications by using corresponding authoring tools.
	Funding: EU, IST 2001-34024 Partner: Labein, Siemens C-Lab, Fraunhofer AGC, OMV, Guggenheim, HUT, FAW, TalentCode Website: www.amire.net

XML-KM		1/2000-10/2001
	The objective of XML-KM was the integration of existing tourism and commerce applications with a GIS (SVG) and the Data Warehouse (XML) and tools which have been developed in the MiroWeb project.
	Funding: EU, IST 1999-12030 Partner: IBERMATICA; GMD, OSIS, ESRI, Camara de Gipuzkoa, e-XMLMedia

SAVE	Safety Virtual Environment	11/1999-10/2001
	SAVE is a component based approach for VR applications. Using an authoring environment the implementation of VR trainings scenarios can be realized more efficiently.
	Funding: OMV AG Partner: OMV AG Website: www.faw.at/save

MiroWEB		8/1998-10/1999
	The goal of the MIRO-Web project was to develop and demonstrate the use of a set of middleware components providing integrated access to multiple data sources through Internet/Intranet protocols.
	Funding: EU ESPRIT 25208 Partner: BULL, GMD, Osis, Ibermatica, INRIA, TIScover

omvr		11/1997-10/1999
	omvr is a Virtual Reality based safety training system in a petroleum refinery. It provides an improved technique for personnel safety training and allows users to navigate through parts of the refinery and interact with the environment.
	Funding: OMV AG Partner: OMV AG

Sample Student Projects

Real-time IBL		04/2005-now
	In "Real-time IBL" we implement a real-time image based lighting environment for an Augmented Reality Environment. We simply capture the environment lights by the usage of a gazing ball.
	Student-Team: Peter Supan
Sketch-AR-US
	In this project, we implemented a real-time version of the original loose-and-sketchy algorithm and combined it with an Augmented Reality environment. Consequently, both the real and the virtual objects are rendered in an NPR style.
	Student-Team: Florian Landerl (Master Thesis)

Coeno-Storyboard		11/2004-now
	Coeno is a framework for tabletop augmented surfaces. The first prototype implements an application for a storyboard face-to-face collaboration and includes different interaction metaphors (e.g. enhanced hyperdragging, virtual keyboard etc.)
	Student-Team: Adam Gokcezade, Johannes Kehrer, Christina Koeffel, Daniel Leithinger, Jakob Leitner, Thomas Seifried Website: www.coeno.org

Zoo4Kids		10/2004-11/2004
	Three different flash games have been developed for Tiergarten Schönbrunn and Microsoft Austria on the occasion of the game ZooTycoon II.
	Student-Team: David Horn, Peter Supan, Ines Stuppacher, Wolfgang Schermann Partner: Microsoft Austria, Tiergarten Schönbrunn Website: http://www.zoo4kids.at/abenteuer.php

Motion Lines
	Still images often take advantage of stylized techniques to portray motion. Most of these techniques are commonly used for dynamic images as well (e.g. for cartoons). Our approach is focused on three methods to stylize motion: squash-and-stretch, multiple images, and motion lines.
	Student-Team: Christian Hanl (Master Thesis)

NPR-AR		06/2003 - 07/2004
	The goal of this project was to combine AR technology with NPR techniques. A real-time version of a painterly algorithm has been implemented using shader programming techniques.
	Student-Team: Daniel Sperl (Master Thesis)

ShadowAReality		06/2003 - 06/2004
	The overall goal of this project is to make augmented reality scenes as realistic as possible. Therefore, we integrated shadows (shadow volumes) and bump-mapped surfaces into the ARToolKit environment.
	Student-Team: Stephan Drab (Master Thesis) , Peter Supan, Ines Stuppacher

FaiMR	Furniture Assembly Instructor for Mixed Reality	06/2003 - 06/2004
	The idea of this work is to connect the instruction directly to the parts of a piece of furniture using mixed reality. FaiMR is based on the AMIRE framework. In the test scenario, we implemented a tablet PC interface with a camera mounted on the back of the device.
	Student-Team: Alexander Brandl (Master Thesis), Juergen Zauner

ASR	Augmented Sound Reality
	ASR was the first prototype that combines sound (Dolby Digital system) and graphics in an Augmented Reality environment. In the application we used ARToolKit as a tracking system for placing 3D sound sources.
	Student-Team: Daniel Dobler, Philipp Stampfl

EyeCursor		02/2002 - 06/2002
	The goal of project EyeCursor was that the cursor tracks the movements of the eye using a USB webcam.
	Student-Team: Matthias Bauer, Andrea Durchschlag, Wolfgang Hafenscher, Peter Hutterer

SmellWare	An olfactory device	02/2002 - 06/2002
	The goal of this project was to develop a smell interface (olfactory device) that combines an Augmented Reality environment with the smell sense.
	Student-Team: Brigitte Bayler, Bernadette Emsenhuber, Sandra Hofmann, Sabine Kaiser, Christian Steinbauer, Barbara Wolfmaier

Research Funding obtained

Year	Proposal	Project Budget
2005	Author for the proposal "Office Of Tomorrow", FHplus, FFG	490,000 EUR
2004	Author for the proposal "Leonardo, a multinational exploration in Interaction Design education and research"	225,000 EUR and 520,000 NZD
2004	AMIRE-ES (Mobile version of the AMIRE framework)	16,000 EUR
2001	Co-Author for the EU proposal AMIRE, IST 2001-34024	2,100,000 EUR
1999	Co-Author for the EU roposal XML-KM, IST 1999-12030	1,600,000 EUR
1997	Co-Author for theEU proposal MIROWeb, ESPRIT 25208	1,200,000 EUR
Total Funding obtained		5,881,000 EUR