Project leader: Julien Pansiot, Research Engineer, Inria Grenoble

Project
Current multi-camera studios such as Kinovis allow to capture and reconstruct 3D scenes with millimetre precision. This data is of great interest in many fields such as film, online training, sports and medicine. However, these platforms are very expensive and complex to deploy outside of the studio. The KinoFlex project proposes to jointly develop a capture platform and appropriate 3D reconstruction methods to reduce these constraints.

Scientific and technological approach
KinoFlex proposes to compensate for the use of low-cost, less powerful hardware in an uncontrolled environment with innovative scientific methods such as continuous spatio-temporal modelling of the scene and its illumination.

Risk
This project is risky because it combines a hardware component and a scientific software component, both of which are innovative and lack state-of-the-art. This risk is accentuated by the interdependence of the two components.

Impact
Many research fields related to biomechanics (medicine, sports, etc.) or more generally requiring temporal 3D data (biology, environment, etc.) will benefit from an accessible and repeatable capture method.

Funding
This work benefited from the French government funding managed by the National Research Agency under the “France 2030” program, grant ANR-24-RRII-0002 operated by the “Programme Inria Quadrant” (PIQ). https://piq.inria.fr/en/projets/#KinoFlex

This work was supported by French government funding managed by the National Research Agency under the “Investments for the Future” program (PIA) grant ANR-21-ESRE-0030 (CONTINUUM). https://continuum.cnrs.fr