Researchers from Inria Sophia Antipolis centre, in collaboration with Adobe and UC Berkeley developed a method that can alter the lighting of your pictures and videos in a few clicks. This innovative algorithm use a neural network that was trained on synthetic images but can also work on real images. The results show it is possible […]
EMOTIVE’s partner ATHENA traveled to Boston in early April 2019 to participate in MuseWeb ‘19 (the new name for the popular “Museums and the Web” conference). The conference is organised annually and explores advanced research and exemplary applications of digital practice for cultural, natural and scientific heritage. ATHENA had a taste of the latest digital […]
The EMOTIVE project has been included as one of seven successful cooperation examples in the newly published How to Facilitate Cooperation between Humanities Researchers and Cultural Heritage Institutions. Guidelines. This report, edited by Maciej Maryl and Klaudia Grabowska (Digital Humanities Centre at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences), is the outcome […]
We are delighted to announce that EMOTIVE paper has been accepted to the prestigious CHI 2019 conference in Glasgow, UK. The title of the paper is Transformation through Provocation? Designing a “Bot of Conviction” to Challenge Conceptions and Evoke Critical Reflection and the authors are Roussou, M., Perry, S., Katifori, A., Vassos, S., Tzouganatou, A., & McKinney, S.The ACM CHI Conference on […]
On 15-16 November 2018 EMOTIVE joined over 40 exhibitors in Brussels at the Fair of European Innovators in Cultural Heritage, a key event of 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage. The event sought to highlight innovation and bring together innovators from across the cultural heritage innovation ecosystem. Participants engaged in presentations, talks and social gatherings […]
Congratulations to George Drettakis, Inria research director at the Sophia Antipolis – Méditerranée centre and head of the Graphdeco project-team, specialist in Computer Graphics, who received the European Research Council (ERC) grant in the Advanced category for the FUNGRAPH proposal “A New Foundation for Computer Graphics with Inherent Uncertainty”. ERC Advanced Grants are awarded under […]
This is the second EMOTIVE bi-annual newsletter to keep you updated on the happenings of the EMOTIVE project and ‘emotive storytelling’ in general. It includes insights into our work, updates on our progress and links to many exciting topics related to the project, storytelling and cultural heritage. Click here to read the Emotive Newsletter December 2017. from […]
On 26 November 2016, members from eight institutions and companies gathered at the offices of the Athena Research Institute to meet, greet and kick-off the exciting EMOTIVE project. Just over a year later and the team are hard at work, developing and testing, writing and publishing, connecting and collaborating. The EMOTIVE project is well and […]
With the help of this bi-annual newsletter, we’ll keep you updated on the happenings of the EMOTIVE project and ‘emotive storytelling’ in general. You can expect insights into our work, updates on our progress and links to many exciting topics related to the project, storytelling and cultural heritage. So here’s to the start of a new project […]