V-Lab: Creative technology

Machine perception for 3D immersive content production.

Woman holding a board whilst a camera focuses on it

Goal: Creative audio and visual technology for immersive experiences

Leading UK research group in creative technology (audio and video)
Immersive content production for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR)
Machine learning for understanding video and audio.

Impact: Pioneering creative technologies since 1996

World-leading video-realistic content production for film, games and VR
Spatial audio for VR – GooglePlay ‘Best VR Experience.’

Current projects

V-lab is active in a portfolio of research projects supported by EPSRC, EU, TSB, industry and the Royal
Society. The research activity is underpinned by an EPSRC platform grant in visual media providing
strategic long-term funding for adventure and continuity of research.

Visual Media Platform (EPSRC)
BodyShape 'Body Shape Recognition for Online Fashion' (EPSRC)
Royal Society Industry Fellowship with Framestore Digital Doubles: From real-actors to computer generated digital doubles
S3A: Future spatial audio for an immersive listener experience at home
Video-based capture, reconstruction and rendering of people
VisualMedia
Total Capture for real-time animation (Innovate UK)
ALIVE ‘Live Action Lightfields for Immersive Virtual reality Experiences’ (Innovate UK).

Previous projects

RE@CT - Immersive production and delivery of interactive 3D content (EU IST)
SCENE - Novel scene representations for richer networked media (EU IST)
SyMMM - Synchronising multimodal movie metadata (TSB)
i3Dpost - Intelligent 3D content extraction and manipulation for film and games (EU IST)
i3Dlive - Interactive 3D methods for live action media (TSB/EPSRC)
iview - Free-viewpoint video for entertainment content production (TSB/EPSRC)
VBAP - Video-based animation of people (EPSRC).