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Welcome to KIST Imaging Media Research Center (IMRC) Wiki.

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IMRC at KIST was established in 1997 to conduct media related research of the 21st century. Major research areas include:

Virtual and Mixed Reality (VR & MR) Platform
Ubiquitous Tangible Interaction
Tele-Immersive Technology
Social Media Application Technology
Immersive stereo display
Electro-magnetic Reality Sensing Technology
Virtual machine and Compiler optimization Technology

The center has pioneered in developing immersive virtual reality interaction spaces like a world’s largest Virtual Reality Theater accommodating 651 audiences for Kyungju World Culture EXPO 2000 and the the VR contents called "Into the breath of Seorabol" was shown to more than 1.7 million people.

We have launched a long term research initiative toward Tangible Space Initiative seeking seamless interactions in virtual, physical or intermixed environments. Most well known interactions with intermixed environment are AR/MR type interactions where the user may view virtual object image intermixed with the video capturing the physical environment. Other intermixed environments can be a robotic agent sensing and actuating in physical environment on behalf of human as well as a virtual or software agent.

As a next phase of TSI, we continue our research on Tangible Web with recent application to sports cheering system. While tangible space has been focused on a single person interaction space, the project scope has widened and focused to incorporate human to human social interactions recently. Web as a social media has seen an intense development in Web 2.0 but web as a tangible interaction space has been received less attention.

The center has been active in attracting international conferences like VRST 2000, VSMM 2002, ICAT 2004, and ISMA2010.

Main Research Projects (주요 연구 과제)

Realtime Physics Simulation	AR LEGO House - Simulated Ubiquitous Environment	Electro-Magnetic Wave Imaging

Personal Life Log	Robot Middleware and S/W Framework	Multi-focus 3D Display System

Performance-oriented Virtual Machine	Mobile Augmented Reality Tour	Tangible Sports System

4D+ Mirror World Generation