The IPRacine consortium organised its first testbed in Madrid . A setup with 2 high resolution Viper cameras and nie low-resolution cameras was used to record images for the “virtual camera” research. Ultimately this will lead to the creation of a virtual camera that can be moved anywhere on the set at post-production time within a scene recorded with a small number of carefully placed cameras. The action featured dancers on a green screen that will be replaced by a virtual set in post.

The test bed was coordinated by MediaPro. An extended description of the testbed is available here. A later announcement in Spanish was also published in LiderDigital.

A  11 minutes video summary of the testbed 1 is available on video.google.com

A row of 9 lo-res and 2 hi-res cameras.

A dancer on green background

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The Ultimatte recorder from Brainstorm

University of Hasselt provided the virtual actor animation program