The primary objective of CLIPE is to train a generation of innovators and researchers in the field of virtual characters simulation and animation. Advances in technology are pushing towards making VR/AR worlds a daily experience. Whilst virtual characters are an important component of these worlds, bringing them to life and giving them interaction and communication abilities requires highly specialized programming combined with artistic skills, and considerable investments: millions spent on countless coders and designers to develop video-games is a typical example. The research objective of CLIPE is to design the next-generation of VR-ready characters. CLIPE is addressing the most important current aspects of the problem, making the characters capable of:
a) Behaving more naturally.
b) Interacting with real users sharing a virtual experience with them.
c) Being more intuitively and extensively controllable for virtual worlds designers.
The project addresses the core challenges of designing new techniques to create and control interactive virtual characters, benefiting from opportunities open by the wide availability of emergent technologies in the domains of human digitization and displays, as well as recent progresses of artificial intelligence.
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CLIPE aspires to train the new generation of researchers in these techniques, looking at the area holistically. The training and research programme is based on a multi-disciplinary and cross-sectoral philosophy, bringing together industry and academia experts and focusing on both technical and transversal skills development.
The CLIPE network consists of universities/research centers and industrial partners.
Universities & Research Centres: University of Cyprus; Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya; INRIA; University College London; Trinity College Dublin; Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems; KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm; Ecole Polytechnique; Silversky3d Virtual Reality Technologies Ltd.
