PhD Student Position for 3D Video Coding in the Verdione Project
Friday, October 24, 2008 - 12:00
The open PhD position in the Verdione project is closely connected to the World Opera, a cooperation between artists, researchers and industry partners gathered around the vision of expanding the tradition of opera into digital space. The ambitious goal is to construct a distributed mixed-reality environment with high-quality audio and 3D video projection where musicians and actors can perform together and explore new types of interactions without being restricted to a single geographical location on the world. Among the World Opera partner institutions are the Academy of Music in Tromsø, University of Oslo, CCRMA at Stanford University and CIRMMT at McGill University as well as opera houses and opera academies in San Francisco, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Milan. The Verdione project will provide robust networking, video coding and media synchronization support for live performances at the World Opera. The PhD student in the offered position is expected to perform research in the field of real-time 3D video coding and 3D display technologies.