Remote Collaborative Visualizer
The ANR’s “Colloque STIC ” was held at “La Cité des Sciences” of Paris on 5th, 6th and 7th of January. Collaviz Project, as a leading ANR Project, participated at this event in order to present its steps through a demonstration, a scientific poster and a public presentation.
more info about the ANR Colloque STIC 2010
VisWeek is the first forum for visualisation advances for academia, government, and industry. This year, more than 800 people went to Atlantic City to present and share new ideas in the fields of scientific and information visualisation.
Kitware, the company that develops and maintain the official version of both the VTK library and the ParaView software, invited the Collaviz project at its BOF. Stephane Ploix (EDF R&D) presented the project, hightligthing the aim to create an end-user oriented product, that meets industry standards. Both the developer and the demonstrator communities where presented, and the focus on the industry issues, like security, use of existing infrastructures or data management was clearly recieved as an original and necessary approach.
Thursdays 7th of October 2009, the first Collaviz TechDay has been done at the INRIA, Rocquencourt.
The objective of this TechDay was to present in details the proposed architectural choices and software developments already done regarding the Collaviz middleware. These results correspond to the work performed in the frames of WP1 and WP6.
One of the most important issues of the TechDay was the transfer of the expertise to the other project partners, through a technical training course focusing on the software development aspects.
The selected key technologies, like Java, Tomcat, Seam/Richfaces, Neodatis, Metro, Guice, and JNI, on the one hand, and the developed framework itself, on the other hand, have been presented and discussed. A large part of the training course was based on a practical work, where the attendees performed the complete exposition as service of an example of tailored software module. This pratical work has validated the whole approach and the possibility for non-expert to expose as services software components at a reasonable cost.
Last the production chain, including a consistent set of continuous integration and quality control tools, like Maven, Hudson and Sonar, has been presented.
About ten attendees were present to this TechDay, representation most of the technical WPs.
The TechDay has been hosted by Scilab Digiteo in charge of the WP2 of Collaviz. In the future, TechDays will be opened to the public.
The 36th international conference and exhibition on computer graphics and interactive techniques also known as SIGGRAPH 2009 was held this year in New Orleans, Louisiana from 3rd to 7th August 2009. This event was definitely the place to be for scientific visualization.
Thanks to Web3D Consortium, Collaviz had the opportunity to be introduced to different computer graphics communities through an Alexandre Frouart (EDF R&D) presentation about our project. He also presented the present use and the future use of the X3D standard within Collaviz.
The presentation can be downloaded here.
A few words about X3D:
X3D, the only XML-based 3D file format and run-time architecture for Web authors, remains the most widely used ISO open standard for implementation of high-integrity, high-capability 3D systems. With its rich set of componentized features, X3D is used in more and more 3D markets and hardware platforms. X3D has a large innovative community of content and applications developers, and it ensures interoperability and ownership of your 3D content.
The Collaviz demo was introduced by Gerard Poirier (Dassault Aviation), president of the OCDS System@tic thematic group and was completed by Dominique Vernay (Thales) , president of the System@tic Cluster.
(From left to right: Gérard Poirier, Alban Schmutz, Thierry Duval, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, Dominique Vernay. Picture credits: System@tic Paris-Region Cluster)
The Collaviz team joined strongly the 2009 Web 3D Symposium hold in Darmstadt (Germany) from the 15th to the 17th of June at the Fraunhofer IGD institute. This symposium is also an ACM conference.
The contribution to the Symposium of the Collaviz team included:
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The V3D Collaviz demonstrator during the Web3D Showcase
14th in the series, the Web3D 2009 International Symposium will address this wide range of topics covering 3D hypermedia on the web. The annual Web3D Symposium is a major event, which unites researchers, developers, experimenters, and content creators in a dynamic learning environment. Attendees share and explore methods of using, enhancing, and creating new 3D web and multimedia technologies, such as X3D, VRML, COLLADA, Croquet, MPEG4, Java3D, and Canvas3D. The symposium will also address new trends such as interactive 3D graphics applications on mobile devices.
Collaviz will be of course represented at this event of 3D through 2 different ways. First, IRISA through Thierry Duval, which is one of the project partners, will present his accepted paper about “Asymmetric 2D Pointer / 3D Ray for 3D Interaction within Collaborative Virtual Environments“. Second, Collaviz will animate a panel session about “Visualization & X3D” on Wednesday, 17 June.
Web3D 2009 will take place at Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics (IGD) in Darmstadt (Germany) close to Frankfurt / Main
More info @ Web3D.org
Within the context of the GdR ISIS (a reflection group from the CNRS about Information, Signal, Pictures and ViSion) Florent Dupont (LIRIS) co-organized a day entitled: 3D Static and Animated Objects Compression.
The day was held at TELECOM ParisTech on April 2nd. It was a clear success and people took an interest by watching presentations about graphics compression, meshing or watermarking. This was of course a good opportunity to say a few word about Collaviz. So the project has been introduced by people from the LIRIS and ECP.
More info and presentations are available here (french).
