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      The CREATE project: Mixed reality for design, education, and cultural heritage with a constructivist approach 

      Loscos, C.; Widenfeld, H. R.; Roussou, M.; Meyer, A.; Tecchia, F.; Drettakis, George; Gallo, E.; Martinez, A. R.; Tsingos, N.; Chrysanthou, Yiorgos L.; Robert, L.; Bergamasco, M.; Dettori, A.; Soubra, S. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2003)
      The global scope of the CREATE project is to develop a mixed-reality framework that enables highly interactive real-time construction and manipulation of photo-realistic, virtual worlds based on real data sources. This ...
    • Article  

      Image-based crowd rendering 

      Tecchia, F.; Loscos, C.; Chrysanthou, Yiorgos L. (2002)
      Rendering crowded scenes with thousands of different animated virtual people in real time is challenging. An image-based rendering approach for displaying multiple avatars is proposed. The system allows real-time rendering ...
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      Real-time shadows for animated crowds in virtual cities 

      Loscos, C.; Tecchia, F.; Chrysanthou, Yiorgos L. (2001)
      In this paper, we address the problem of shadow computation for large environments including thousands of dynamic objects. The method we propose is based on the assumption that the environment is 2.5D, which is often the ...
    • Article  

      Visualizing crowds in real-time 

      Tecchia, F.; Loscos, C.; Chrysanthou, Yiorgos L. (2002)
      Real-time crowd visualization has recently attracted quite an interest from the graphics community and, as interactive applications become even more complex, there is a natural demand for new and unexplored application ...