Project Details

SAUCE - Smart Asset re-Use in Creative Environments

Project Period: 1. 1. 2018 – 31. 12. 2020

Project Type: grant

Agency: Evropská unie

Program: Horizon 2020

Czech title
SAUCE - Znovupoužívání chytrých aktiv v kreativních prostředích
Type
grant
Keywords

Multi media, Computer graphics, Computer games, Computer vision, Film, TV, games,
AR/VR, Light fields, VFX, post-production, animation, deep learning, semantic
labeling, asset transformation, storage and retrieval.

Abstract

SAUCE will research, develop, pilot and demonstrate a set of professional tools
and techniques for making content smarter, so that it is fully adaptive in
a broad, unprecedented manner: adaptive to context (which facilitates re-use), to
purpose (among or within industries), to the user (improving the viewing
experience), and to the production environment (so that it is future-proof). The
approach is based on research into light-field technology; automated
classification and tagging using deep learning and semantic labeling to describe
and draw inferences; and the development of tools for automated asset
transformation, smart animation, storage and retrieval. These new technologies
and tools will show that a vast reduction of costs and increases in efficiency
are possible, facilitating the production of more content, of higher quality and
creativity, for the benefit of the competitiveness of the European creative
industries. Specifically, SAUCE will research and develop: - Methods of
generating smart world-views by capturing and processing light-fields, augmenting
them with semantics and making them usable for media production pipelines. -
A framework and tools for automatically classifying, validating and finding smart
assets, using deep learning and semantic labeling techniques on 2D and 3D data. -
A framework and tools for the automatic transformation and adaptation of smart
assets to new contexts, purposes, users and environments, and for the synthesis
of new smart assets from existing ones. - Real-time control systems for authoring
animated content using smart assets, automatically synthesizing new scenes from
existing ones and integrating smart assets into virtual production scenarios. -
A storage system for smart assets that combines local and cloud storage so that
assets can be delivered irrespective of the user or asset location. SAUCE will
also demonstrate and promote its results, for industry approval, adoption and
development by third parties.

Team members
Publications

2022

2019

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