AlterEgo is demonstrating how to use avatars and robots to help treat social disorders

Our avatar reconstruction pipeline is currently being tested and helping to develop new therapies for schizophrenic, autism and other social phobias.

The European Community Research and Development Information Service has a news piece on AlterEgo:

http://cordis.europa.eu/news/rcn/124883_en.html

 

Best Paper Award at WACV 2016

Best Paper Award at WACV 2016

For their paper “Occlusion-Aware Video Registration for Highly Non-Rigid Objects”, Bertram Taetz, Gabriele Bleser, Vladislav Golyanik, and Didier Stricker have won the Best Paper Award at the Winter Conference on the Applications of Computer Vision – WACV 2016 on March 9, 2016 in Lake Placid, USA. Congratulations to the authors of the paper!