Open position for an experienced researcher in the area of ASIC/FPGA design for implementing image processing algorithms for 3D light-field displays at Holografika, for one year. This position is for an Experienced Researcher (ER) in an EU-FP7 Marie Curie Action. The successful candidate should demonstrate experience with FPGA programming and / or ASIC design and related tools, as well as electrical design tools, PCB design incl. high frequency design.
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Peter Tamas Kovacs (ER3) delivered the industrial keynote speech at the KEPAF 2015, which is the 10th edition of the biannual conference of the Képfeldolgozók és Alakfelismerők Társasága (Association of Image Processing and Shape Recognition Experts).
The event attracted approx. 100 participants, representing all Hungarian universities and research institutes having a research group in the above topics.
Peter Tamas Kovacs (ER3) has recently been appointed as the Head of Delegation (HoD) to MPEG for Hungary.
The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) is a working group of ISO/IEC in charge of the development of international standards for compression, decompression, processing, and coded representation of moving pictures, audio and their combination.
The activities in MPEG’s Free Viewpoint Television Ad-hoc Group (FTV AhG) are largely in line with PROLIGHT’s objectives, as super-multiview / light field video compression, view synthesis are among the targets of current experiments targeting the future 3D video standard.
NVIDIA awarded “One to Watch” awards to the five most promising startups at the GPU Technology Conference in front of an audience of 150 VCs, bankers, and members of the GPU ecosystem.
Out of three dozen finalists in this year’s Emerging Companies Summit, for the first time a Hungarian company joined the winners: Holografika impressed the expert panel of judges with its innovative light-field 3D display technology that relies on parallel GPU computing techniques for achieving real-time light-field generation.
This award-winning light-field display technology is the focus of the PROLIGHT project which performs research and development in the area of 3D visual media through developing modern signal processing methods for ultra-realistic light-field displays.
Péter Tamás Kovács and Kristóf Lackner, both involved in the PROLIGHT project and pursuing their PhD at TUT, heavily contributed to this success at the GPU Technology Conference – and will exploit the awarded Tesla K40 GPU in their further research. Dave Singhal’s (Holografika US) invaluable local support to this success is gratefully acknowledged.
With this award, Holografika joined an illustrious group of winners in previous years, including Oculus Rift, Splashtop, and Elemental Technologies.
The GPU Technology Conference and the Emerging Companies Summit are organized every year in San José, the capital of Silicon Valley.
Dr. Ákos Balázs started his work at Holografika at the beginning of the month.
Dr. Harlyn Baker presented a tutorial on light-field capture approaches and EPI-based light-field analysis. Afterwards he explained and provided a hands-on demonstration of his own light-field capture setup consisting of an array of 6X6 cameras. These are connected to a 6 FPGA boards, each serving 6 cameras.
The 6 FPGS boards in turn send their data to a mini workstation, which combines the captured light field into a single stream which is transmitted to the user’s computer over a Thunderbolt interface. During the demonstration, we have captured a light-field video sequence of 5 seconds to perform further experiments on the material, which will be made available to all PROLIGHT participants. The sequences are captured at 60 FPS at a resolution of 752 X 480 for each camera.
Harlyn Baker has a long history in multiple-image computer vision, from early 3D modelling in Edinburgh, to stereo in his PhD at Champaign-Urbana and the Stanford AI Lab, a dozen years at SRI, where he co-developed Epipolar Plane Image (EPI) Analysis, and a dozen more at HP Labs.
Harlyn’s EPI work, called seminal, has been instrumental in most later developments on Light Field analysis, including Ray Space and Hogel formulations. On leaving Interval Research, he was co-founder of TYZX, joined HP Labs in 2000, where he designed and developed camera systems to support multi-view studies, demonstrated automultiscopic imaging and display systems for 3D interaction and immersive experiences, and has most recently been exploring how 3D capture can impact print photography. Harlyn just took an early retirement package from Hewlett Packard Laboratories, and by summer will take up a position at the University of Heidelberg.