Vision - Comunicaciones de Vídeo de Nueva Generación

The mere fact of transmitting images and sound through the network is not enough to convey a sense of real presence in the communications. There must be other capacities such as the sense of eye contact, as important as the non-verbal communication, the vision of images from any point of view and sense of depth, real interactivity through natural interfaces and without any perceptible delay in responding visual and auditory, and so on. 

The development of services that have these capabilities necessary for the actual person-person communication can not be achieved with existing technologies. It is necessary to investigate new technologies that will make the jump in quality necessary to attain that goal. 

The objective of the project VISION is to achieve a qualitative leap in digital audiovisual communication for people separated by great distances feel the sensation of being physically together in one place. 

This suggests the research of technologies that enable the generation of knowledge needed for the development of new advanced communication systems of high quality and realism for the interconnection of "places" or "environments" through remote communication networks.

The UPC role in VISION was threefold:

• Foreground segmentation and scene capture
• Volumetric analysis
• Real-time capture sensors