{"id":10088,"date":"2025-06-30T17:25:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T15:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/giovanni-pintore\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T10:13:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T08:13:28","slug":"giovanni-pintore","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/en\/people\/giovanni-pintore\/","title":{"rendered":"Giovanni Pintore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Project Leader and Senior Researcher at the Visual and Data Intensive Computing (VIDiC) group at CRS4, Giovanni Pintore specializes in advanced technologies for visual data processing and visualization.He holds a Master%u2019s Degree in Electronic Engineering (pre-reform system) from the University of Cagliari and a PhD in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) from the University of A Coru\u00f1a (UDC).His research interests include:  Artificial intelligence for VR model generation from spherical images   Indoor scene reconstruction using deep learning techniques   3D reconstruction of indoor structures and environments from images   Multiresolution representations of large and complex 3D models  He leads national and international research and industrial projects, with applications in the fields of security, space exploration, and smart cities. He serves as program chair, editor, and reviewer for various international conferences and journals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4102,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"gruppo":[123],"class_list":["post-10088","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","gruppo-data-intensive-computing-en"],"acf":{"name":"Giovanni","surname":"Pintore","email":"giovanni.pintore@crs4.it","phone":"","user_uuid":"e3c09714-99fc-1032-95fe-0030485a3848","personal_page":"","google_scholar_id":"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=UDIPaq0AAAAJ","position":"Researcher","microsoft_academic_id":"","project_coordinator":[{"ID":12696,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:18:35","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:18:35","post_content":"The AFFINE project aims to synergistically use geometric and visual data acquired from different sensors to obtain, for the same amount of resources used for acquisition, extremely dense and geometrically much more detailed models, substantially improving the competitiveness of the digitization system, and making it ready for the demands of modern industrial and commercial applications.\nFrom the perspective of innovation, the project aims to:\n<ul>\n<li>research intelligent methodologies, mainly based on deep learning approaches, to densify individual geometric scans by exploiting the information in panoramic images;<\/li>\n<li>research scalable out-of-core solutions, to effectively integrate densified data from individual scans to obtain a single dense 3D point cloud representative of the entire area or building acquired;<\/li>\n<li>combine geometric, visual, and odometric data to improve the mutual alignment of 3D data, imagery, and the location itself within the generated model;<\/li>\n<li>use high-resolution images with densified geometric information and of the densified 3D model on both data sharing and information cataloging and information extraction and modeling platforms to improve existing products and processes and to introduce new features.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","post_title":"AFFINE","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"affine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:32:47","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:32:47","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/affine\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"team_members":[{"ID":12682,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:18:17","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:18:17","post_content":"While the area of structured indoor reconstruction has witnessed substantial progress in the past decade, current solutions are mostly limited to relatively simple environments with constrained shapes and provide very limited opportunities for seamlessly going from captured data to a dynamically modifiable representation. In AIN2, we aim to substantially advance this research field by proposing specialized solutions for rapidly capturing, exploring, and visually editing indoor environment starting from panoramic images. The project will tackle fundamental problems in the field of reality-based indoor reconstruction, modeling, exploration, leading to new methods, algorithms, and reference implementations. CRS4, in particular, will focus on advanced reconstruction and visualization methods starting from sparse panoramic images, focusing on data-driven\u00a0 solutions that derive hidden relations from large amounts of examples.","post_title":"AIN2","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ain2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:32:18","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:32:18","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/ain2\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":12698,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:18:37","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:18:37","post_content":"The ICSC National Research Centre for High Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing promotes national and international-level innovation, building on a state-of-the-art infrastructure for computation and big data management.\u00a0 The Center focuses, on the one hand, on the maintenance and enhancement of the Italian HPC and Big Data infrastructure and, on the other hand, on the development of advanced numerical methods and applications, software tools and workflows, to integrate the computation, simulation, collection and analysis of data of interest to the research system and the productive and social system, including through cloud and distributed approaches. It engages and promotes the best interdisciplinary expertise in science and engineering, enabling radical and sustainable innovations in fields ranging from basic research to computational and experimental sciences of climate, environment, space, matter and life, epidemiology, materials technologies, and future systems and devices for IT and the production system at large. The Center supports higher education and promotes policy development for responsible data management from an open data and open science perspective, combining regulatory, standardization and compliance profiles.\n\u00a0\nCRS4 participates in the project in Spoke 9 (Digital Cities) through [a] the research and development of AI solutions to infer, from visual data or other measurements, of 3D structured models of buildings; [b] solutions to improve the quality and reliability of digital twins by fostering composability, interoperability, reusability and reproducibility of datasets, computational tools and their results; [c] the study and development of probabilistic methods for forecasting electricity consumption and renewable generation for individuals and smart and artificial intelligence methods for electricity consumption analysis and non-intrusive disaggregation of household electric loads.\n\u00a0\nProject Partners:\u00a0<a>https:\/\/www.supercomputing-icsc.it\/en\/partnership\/<\/a>","post_title":"HPCCN","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"hpccn","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:32:12","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:32:12","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/hpccn\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":14765,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:19:30","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:19:30","post_content":"EVOCATION is a leading European-wide doctoral Collegium for research in  Advanced Visual and Geometric Computing for 3D Capture, Display, and  Fabrication. The Collegium will train the next generation of creative,  entrepreneurial and innovative experts who will be equipped with the  necessary skills and competences to face current and future major  challenges in scalable and high-fidelity shape and appearance  acquisition, extraction of structure and semantic information,  processing, visualization, 3D display and 3D fabrication in professional  and consumer applications. Further information at <a>https:\/\/evocation.eu\/<\/a>","post_title":"EVOCATION","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"evocation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:33:27","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:33:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/evocation\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":14974,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:19:42","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:19:42","post_content":"Metropolitan cities are among the main places of economic and cultural activity of the 21st century. The growing urbanization and aggregation of metropolitan territorial communities, sustainable development, citizen engagement, economic and cultural attractiveness and governance are among the most important issues facing modern cities. The increasing complexity of these issues and the technological development are leading to an urgent need and the opportunity to radically rethink how we build and operate our cities.\nThis project aims at studying and developing innovative methods and technologies to offer new intelligent solutions to improve city attractiveness, resource management, and the safety and quality of the life of citizens through the close combination of use and experimentation of advanced communication infrastructure and widespread sensors, and the study and development of innovative vertical solutions.\nIn particular, the project will be focused on the following topics:\n<ul>\n<li>open technologies for ubiquitous communication and distributed sensing; <\/li>\n<li>aggregation, processing, and distribution or big data\/open data; <\/li>\n<li>citizen's safety from environmental hazards; <\/li>\n<li>energy awareness, and development of intelligent networks for energy distribution; <\/li>\n<li>scalable distribution and display of large amounts of data, with particular reference to numerical simulation and data from the cultural heritage sector.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThe project is also accompanied by a dissemination and training plan, in which three Summer Schools will be organized on the subject of Urban Informatics.\nThe project is part of a broader framework that aims to make Sardinia one of the most important regions in the development and application of innovative technologies for smart cities. In particular, project experiments will be carried out, at a metropolitan city scale, through an agreement with the Municipality of Cagliari and also by means of the computing and network infrastructures made available by the Joint Innovation Center - JIC, located in the scientific and technological park POLARIS (Pula, Cagliari).","post_title":"TDM","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"tdm","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:33:35","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:33:35","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/tdm\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":16796,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:20:11","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:20:11","post_content":"The project aims at developing new scalable solution for active scanning using mobile devices, as well as methods for the reconstruction of indoor environments from spherical images.","post_title":"AMAC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"amac","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:34:01","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:34:01","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/amac\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":16802,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:20:18","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:20:18","post_content":"The project aims at developint an innovative architecture, designed for cloud environments, for supporting storage, distribution, andinteractive exploration of very high resolution point clouds generated by latest generation sensors. This enabling technologu is thenintegrated in vertical application with a clear market. The software platform will be based on innovative state-of-the-art methods developed by CRS4 and GEXCEL, and will include the following components:- processing and fusion of massive point clouds of potentially unbounded size;- archival and scalable compression of multiresolution databases, with local and remote access;- efficient distribution of point cloud based on a cloud-enabled application server;- interactive illustrative visualization of unstructured point clouds on multiple platforms, including desktop PCs and mobile devices;- multi-sensor hardware\/software platform for developing vertical solution to be applied in industrial scanning applications- complete prototype for handling 3D measurement in difficult environmental and\/or climatic environments;- content manager for fast viewing and publication of 3D measured data.","post_title":"3DCLOUDPRO","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"3dcloudpro","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:34:07","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:34:07","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/3dcloudpro\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":19620,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:21:39","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:21:39","post_content":"The concentration of government buildings within urban environments has become a source of serious security vulnerability. Administrators and security experts face a variety of evolving threats that are hard to anticipate. To secure a government building against multiple threats while maintaining a minimal level of transparency and accessibility requires an integral security approach. It demands interdisciplinary collaboration between different experts from different domains. Currently, there is no efficient method or tool that allows the experts of different stripes to efficiently design, evaluate and implement appropriate security concepts. Existing ones do not allow for the effective creation, analysis, assessment, and sharing of security concepts that will help government administrators provide a secure environment for personnel and citizens.The VASCO project addresses two important objectives. First, it will design, implement and evaluate an innovative IT tool that will enable security professionals and administrators to jointly formulate, test, and adjust security concepts and measures in a virtual environment. This provides a cost-effective and risk- free environment in which to devise an evidence-based, all-risk approach for the protection of government buildings. Second, it will produce a knowledge and best practice database, which captures dynamic and visual reference scenarios created with the VASCO system. To accomplish these aims, the project will adopt an iterative methodology that enables the constant involvement of its world-class security and crisis management experts, assisted by a solid and open user group, during the whole project. It makes use of the latest advances in interactive visualisation, simulation, crisis management, and artificial intelligence to provide end-users with an unprecedented tool that dramatically improves the way in which they collaborate to secure critical government assets both at home and abroad. CRS4, together with ISTI-CNR, will concentrate on techniques for acquisition and exploration of indoor environments.","post_title":"VASCO","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"vasco","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:35:26","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:35:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/vasco\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":19684,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:23:39","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:23:39","post_content":"The INDIGO project aims to research, develop and validate an innovative system integrating the latest advances in Virtual Reality and Simulation in order to homogenise and enhance both the operational preparedness and the management of an actual complex crisis. INDIGO will enable: (a) the 3D interactive and realistic visualisation of the complete crisis environment, including data coming from the field, simulation results, and building interiors; (b) the creation and simulation of different evolving scenarios for planning, training, and anticipating future states and impending developments during operations, and analyse events after the crisis; (c) the simultaneous training of decision makers, crisis managers as well as first responders that will be influenced by the simulated scenario and that will reciprocally influence its evolution; (d) the involvement of multiple participants, thanks to its distributed architecture, while offering a unique pictorial way of sharing and communicating complex knowledge across organisation boundaries.  In addition, INDIGO will propose a European emergency symbology reference for 2D\/3D maps. This will fill an important gap by offering a common visual reference that can be used across Europe to facilitate the immediate understanding of the situation, thus improving decision making across organisational boundaries. The definition of the functional specifications of the system will be driven by the analysis of the needs of real end-users participating in the project as partners or involved in the User Group. These organisations will test and validate the outcomes of the project with real-world scenarios. By the end of the project a packaged system integrating all the proposed technologies will have been developed and provided to them under two versions for purpose of validation and refinement of needs and specifications.  CRS4, together with ISTI-CNR, will concentrate on extending such a framework with the possibility of handling two particularly important data types: extremely massive point clouds, and geo-referenced (three-dimensionalized) photographs. These two particular datatypes are of particular importance to the security domain, since they can be acquired very rapidly and provide both measurable and visually recognizable description of a site. On the server side, the focus will be on the efficient handling of extremely massive data, on the incorporation of raw data (e.g., from LIDAR acquisitions), and on the efficient compressed streaming. Moreover, a combined (hybrid) solution using both 3D points and images will be researched.","post_title":"INDIGO","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"indigo","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:37:21","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:37:21","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/indigo\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":19704,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:24:19","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:24:19","post_content":"3D geoinformatics has entered the digital age, hesitantly in some areas, and rampantly in others. Google Earth and Microsoft Virtual Earth are household names. Although limited to landscapes and few buildings envelopes, their massive digital geographic libraries are today the playground of millions of people and the generator of new forms of content and applications with tremendous impact perspectives. However, these pale in comparison to those that will be made possible as soon as urban digital libraries will be fully available and exploitable. The focus of the project on urban environments is not only made possible by the latest technological advances of the consortium, but also highly justified. Urban environments represent one of the most important and valuable cultural heritage as acknowledged by the UNESCO. Therefore, the V-City project aims to research, develop and validate an innovative system integrating the latest advances in Computer Vision, 3D Modelling and Virtual Reality for the rapid and cost-effective reconstruction, visualisation and exploitation of complete, large-scale and interactive urban environments. This system will enable historians, architects or archaeologists to reconstruct from existing data, study, understand, preserve or document urban environments using an innovative interactive 3D user interface. CRS4 is the organization responsible for the visualization of massive urban models.","post_title":"V-CITY","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"v-city","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:37:47","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:37:47","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/v-city\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":19705,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:24:22","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:24:22","post_content":"The project aims at extending CRS4 framework for real-time terrain streaming and rendering. The system is at the core of the regional geoviewing framework and, in the context of this project, will be transfered to the region of Emilia-Romagna.","post_title":"RATMAN-RER3D","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ratman-rer3d","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:37:49","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:37:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/ratman-rer3d\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":19715,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:24:38","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:24:38","post_content":"The project aims at setting up an advanced cyberinfrastructure based on dedicated optical networks to support collaborative research application. The aim of Cybersar computational infrastructure is to support innovative computational applications by using leading edge hardware and technological solutions and to provide an experimental platform for research on the enabling technologies that will power next generation cyberinfrastructures.\nResearch activities are organized into 13 workpackages. CRS4 is directly involved in 7 WP:\n<ul>\n<li>Network of centers of high performance computing, integrated in a Grid infrastructure [<em>Gianluigi Zanetti<\/em>], <\/li>\n<li>Photonic metacomputers [<em>Gianluigi Zanetti<\/em>],<\/li>\n<li>Prediction of extreme weather events based on statistical ensamble techniques ensemble [<em>Ernesto Bonomi\/Marino Marrocu<\/em>], <\/li>\n<li>Inversion of seismic data for massively parallel in depth imaging [<em>Ernesto Bonomi<\/em>], <\/li>\n<li>Immersive exploration of scientific and engineering 3D datasets on very large scale displays [<em>Enrico Gobbetti<\/em>], <\/li>\n<li>Simulation modeling and design in process engineering and production [Giacomo Cao], <\/li>\n<li>Simulation modeling in spatial planning, and environmental services [<em>Giovanni Sechi\/Giuditta Lecca<\/em>].<\/li>\n<\/ul>","post_title":"CYBERSAR","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cybersar","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:38:02","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:38:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/cybersar\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":19716,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:24:41","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:24:41","post_content":"The project aims at improving CRS4 Batched Multi-Triangulation technology to integrate it into a space robotics simulation software environment. The goal is to support fast, realistic real-time rendering of asteroid datasets, as well as collision detection between the asteroid and custom vehicles\/robots.","post_title":"SBLGSM-IRAD","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"sblgsm-irad","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:38:03","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:38:03","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/sblgsm-irad\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":19726,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:25:00","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:25:00","post_content":"The project aims at exending Batched Dynamic Adaptive Meshes (BDAM) methods to integrate them into a space robotics simulation software environment used for planetary surface robotics development.","post_title":"SPSRD-IRAD","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"spsrd-irad","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:38:20","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:38:20","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/spsrd-irad\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":19728,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:25:06","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:25:06","post_content":"The project aims at extending CRS4 framework for real-time terrain streaming and rendering. The system is at the core of the regional geoviewing framework.","post_title":"RATMAN-SIT1","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ratman-sit1","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:38:24","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:38:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/ratman-sit1\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":19745,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:25:42","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:25:42","post_content":"Advances in networked audiovisual communication facilitate the emergence of computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW). In the COHERENT project, six leading European organisations provide complementary competencies to create a new networked holographic audio-visual platform to support real-time collaborative 3D interaction between geographically distributed teams. The display component will be based on innovative holographic techniques that can present, at natural human interaction scale, realistic animated 3D images to an unlimited number of freely moving simultaneous viewers. The design of the basic networked audiovisual components will be driven by two innovative demanding applications - a collaborative medical visualisation system and a collaborative design review system for the automotive industry - that will constitute by themselves an advancement of the state of the art in their specific domains. Both applications will provide intuitive access and interaction with shared 3D models through a sensory rich 3D user interface based on non-intrusive wireless interaction devices and offering 3D audio cues. Research will strongly concentrate on enabling technology for intuitive multi user access and interaction with complex 3D signals and objects. This project proposes to build a working high-resolution display in the one metre size range that, thanks to its human scale work area, will be ideally suited for multi-user collaborative working in true 3D. The challenge of providing the large visualisation data flow needed to drive such a device will be met using a cost-effective parallel solution based on commercial-off-the-shelf graphics and computing technology. Using GEANT, the pan-European Gigabit Research Network, the project will conduct distributed testing and validation of the system concepts for the two representative application scenarios. The research will be conducted in a 30-month schedule, to guarantee evaluation and demonstration of tangible results. Rapidly evolving advances in networked audiovisual communication technology are facilitating the emergence of computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW) systems. These systems are striving to seamlessly support collaboration between geographically distant teams for the purpose of achieving higher levels of participation, productivity, and creativity. They therefore address a major societal and economic challenge. Since visualisation is one of the most natural and intuitive ways to exchange information between humans, it has become the principal medium used in co-operative and multi-user situations. At the present time, however, state of the art collaborative real-time audiovisual systems typically rely on essentially 2D environments (traditional flat screens) to share information. For many professional applications, however, the main goal is to share the physical 3D object of common interest. These applications typically include clinical discussions among teams of medical specialists, multi-disciplinary scientific debate, design reviews between OEM's and suppliers using computer aided design (CAD), where the objects may be anatomical, molecular and product models respectively. Since these are almost exclusively very complex 3D objects, providing collaborative environments able to process, transmit and display 3D data in ways that match human perceptual abilities is therefore of primary importance and would represent a significant technology breakthrough. However, at present the only computer displays able to provide all the depth cues processed by the human brain to reconstruct a three-dimensional scene are unfortunately limited to single user configurations. Quite ironically, these limitations have led to networked solutions that facilitate remote collaboration only at the expense of the isolation of each participant from their local physical environment. In the COHERENT project, six leading European organisations in their respective fields provide complementary competencies to create a new networked holographic audio-visual platform striving to seamlessly support real-time collaborative 3D interaction between geographically distributed teams. The display component will be based on innovative holographic techniques that can present, at natural human interaction scale, realistic animated 3D images to an unlimited number of freely moving simultaneous viewers. The design of the basic networked audiovisual components will be driven by two innovative demanding applications - a collaborative medical visualisation system and a collaborative design review system for the automotive industry - that will constitute by themselves an advancement of the state of the art in their specific domains. Both applications will provide intuitive access and interaction with shared 3D models through a sensory rich 3D user interface based on non-intrusive wireless interaction and offering 3D audio cues. Research will strongly concentrate on enabling technology for intuitive multi user access and interaction with complex 3D signals and objects. The technical feasibility of the proposed holographic display solution has been recently demonstrated with the development of a ''small scale'' proof-of-concept, using white light based, 24 bit true colour, holographic 3D display. This project proposes to build on this earlier success to produce a working high-resolution display in the one metre size range that, thanks to its human scale work area, will be ideally suited for multi-user collaborative working in true 3D. The challenge of providing the large visualisation data flow needed to drive such a device will be met using a cost-effective parallel solution based on commercial-off-the-shelf graphics and computing technology. The driving applications have been chosen in two important sectors where collaborative 3D technology and networked audiovisual communication have a clear potential impact and provide a sizeable market for the future exploitation of the project results. Moreover, the need for distant teams to work together for a collaborative goal is becoming increasingly common in many industrial and social situations. Therefore, the best practice and methods opened-up by this project will have implications in other application domains. In particular, they will concern high potential, industry-driven domains such as next generation 3D-TV, electronic cinema, virtual and tele-presence and future mixed-reality-based communication services. The consortium has centred the project workplan around continuous and detailed end-user involvement in the research, development, evaluation, and validation activities. The end-users will also play an instrumental role in reaching their larger community as part of the dissemination and exploitation strategy. 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