Mateu Sbert research stay at Lab Cinema 3D28/01/2014
Mateu Sbert, director of the GILAB research group, has spent 10 days, from 16 January to 26 January, at the Universidad de Chile Lab Cinema 3D, in Santiago de Chile. Invited by Victor Fajnzylber, member of the Institute of Communication and Image, during his research stay he carried out R&D on computer graphics. During his stay at the Lab he gave a talk on the activity of GILAB, with...
SEPS project general assembly23/01/2014
Sergio Herraiz and Xavier Berjaga, members of the eXiT research group, took part in the 2014 SEPS project general assembly. The event took place at the Universidad Corporativa Gas Natural Fenosa, in Madrid on 23 January. SEPS is a two-year long R&D project funded by the Spanish Ministry for Economics and Competitiveness and coordinated by Gas Natural Fenosa. The eXiT group of the IIiA, led by...
The IIiA takes part in eTourism showroom17/01/2014
On 17 January, the IIiA took part in the eTourism showroom held by the Costa Brava Girona Tourist Board. The event took place at the board premises. Xavier Manyer, research manager of the IIiA, showed several IT products such as Girona Legends and eFLORS developed by the institute with useful applications for tourism. Girona Legends is an educational videogame that allows players to discover...
Dr. Weiliang Meng gives a seminar10/01/2014
On 9 January Dr. Weiliang Meng, a researcher at the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, gave the seminar "Geometric Processing on Models and Images". During his talk he shared several of his geometry processing methods that can be used for 3D modeling and for rendering real-world objects and scenes with realistic effects. These methods try to improve previous...
IMPONET project wins ITEA Excellence Award 201309/01/2014
IMPONET, a project devoted to the intelligent monitoring of power networks, has won the ITEA Excellence Award 2013. This prize recognizes European collaborative R&D projects achieving advanced technological results and showing best practice. Several members of the eXiT group: Joaquim Meléndez, Francesc Gómez, Víctor Barrera, Sergio Herraiz and Roberto Petite took part in the project since...
Rubén García research stay at Hasselt EDM09/01/2014
Rubén García, researcher of the GILAB research group, has spent a month, from November to December, at the Hasselt University Expertise Centre for Digital Media (EDM), Belgium. During his research stay he carried out R&D on immersive rendering and interaction techniques. More specifically, he tested some of the serious games developed by GILAB, like Girona Legends, on the cutting-edge...