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Within the broad vision for the use of the space, our focus remains on ensuring students on our satellite degree programmes feel as integrated as technologically possible with their fellow students studying in Finland. Before initiating full scale development of the labs it is necessary to construct a prototype system to prove the concept, and it is this prototype that is specified in this document. The remainder of this section details the purpose, scope and necessary background materials for the prototype. Subsequent sections then provide more detailed descriptions of the system and specific requirements. Requirements are given for the final FT-Lab concept and are then reframed to the scope of the prototype. Some of the requirements may therefore be unachievable at this stage but provide a vision for the future, this will be clearly highlighted for each such requirement.
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## 1.1 PURPOSE
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The purpose of this document is to detail primarily the software requirements, and secondarily the hardware requirements, for a prototype to explore the feasibility of specific remote presence technologies for use within our envisioned FT-Labs, whilst also acting as a platform in its own right for research activities. This document also details the expected or required research or other usage activities that will be carried out with the prototype, it acts as a specification of these activities also.
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The purpose of this document is to detail primarily the software requirements for a research prototype to explore the feasibility of specific remote presence technologies for use within our envisioned FT-Labs, whilst also acting as a platform in its own right for research activities. This document also details the expected or required research or other usage activities that will be carried out with the prototype, it acts as a specification of these activities also.
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The purpose of the prototype is to showcase the potential of the technologies, and our capabilities, to potential funders and partners, as well as to initiate new strands of research at UTU into remote presence technologies to complement our existing activities in Mixed Reality. It is our aim and intention to build our research expertise in remote presence to become a global player in this area. Additionally we wish to become a significant player in collaborations with African and other international partners through our expertise in remote presence technologies and through such facilities that we can offer to support collaborations or this kind. A number of academic research publications are expected to result from the use of the prototype, if not from the development of the prototype itself.
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##### G1: Clarify technical feasibility of tele-immersive video in our lab setting for S1-S5
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* **O1.1:** Generate a live 3D reconstruction of two remote labs and all of their occupants by October 2019.
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* **O1.2:** Provide a measure of achievable real-time level-of-detail (LOD) for the 3D reconstruction on the existing hardware platform by November 2019.
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* **O1.3:** Provide minimum and maximum bandwidth estimates for the bidirectional sharing of 3D lab representations between two locations by December 2019.
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* **O1.4:** Report on the performance, quality and usability of real-time scene rendering in a web browser by October 2019. Specifically detail the achievable level-of-detail, the latency of the live feed and the latency of interactions to control the scene view point.
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* **O1.2:** Provide an estimate of maximum achievable real-time level-of-detail (LOD) for the 3D reconstruction on the existing hardware platform by November 2019.
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* **O1.3:** Report on the performance, quality and usability of real-time scene rendering in a web browser by October 2019. Specifically detail the achievable browser level-of-detail, the latency of the live feed and the latency of interactions to control the scene view point and minimum/maximum bandwidth requirements.
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* **O1.4:** Generate a hardware and software specification for a full FT-Lab remote presence implementation by the end of the project.
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##### G2: Provide a demonstration platform for potential external partners or funding bodies.
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* **O2.1:** Create marketing videos and presentations at multiple points during the project to highlight current capabilities and visions.
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* **O2.4:** Produce a publication on UX/UI design for tele-immersive systems.
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##### G3: Act as a starting point for new research directions into remote presence.
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* **O3.1:** Have an individual with expertise in adaptive bitrate media streaming of live materials on moderate to high latency connections.
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* **O3.2:** Have an individual with excellent CUDA and CPU optimization expertise to enable us to compete and exceed on system performance.
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* **O3.3:** Produce a publication on real-time stereo matching algorithms for full room capture.
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* **O3.4:** Produce a publication on point cloud compression and streaming.
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* **O3.5:** Produce a publication on the overall architecture of the tele-immersive system.
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* **O3.6:** Produce a publication on intelligent scene framing in 3D tele-immersive systems.
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* **O3.1:** Train individuals to obtain expertise in adaptive bitrate media streaming of live materials and for highly optimised CUDA and CPU programming.
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* **O3.2:** Produce publications in some if not all of the following areas:
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* * **O3.2.1:** Real-time stereo matching algorithms.
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* * **O3.2.2:** Point cloud of 3D scene compression and streaming.
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* * **O3.2.3:** Architecture of tele-immersive systems.
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* * **O3.2.4:** Intelligent scene framing in 3D tele-immersive systems.
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##### G4: To be a platform for conducting novel small scale participant research studies.
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