The summit provided a platform for exchange with leading international experts from academia and industry, promoting interdisciplinary dialogue and showcasing new datasets and technologies designed to support the further development of AR and AI research.
Christen Millerdurai, from the Augmented Vision research department, presented DFKI's current research in a lecture entitled 'Egocentric Hand-Arm Reconstruction'.
The methods presented at the summit in Redmond, USA, are based on joint work with Dr Alain Pagani, Deputy Head of Research in the Augmented Vision department, on the topic of 'Camera-Space Hand-Arm Tracking from a Monocular Egocentric Camera'. This involves developing a novel method for precisely capturing three-dimensional hand and arm movements from an egocentric perspective as perceived through head-mounted displays. Conventional approaches often reach their limits here, as optical distortions and device-specific differences necessitate extensive and costly data collection and training processes. The Kaiserslautern researchers have overcome these limitations with their approach, achieving reliable results independently of the device and without time-consuming calibration. This enables more natural and seamless interaction in virtual and augmented reality.
