The iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research is a cross-faculty creative arts, engineering and science Centre at the University of New South Wales.
Scientia Professor Dennis Del Favero has been awarded an ARC Laureate Fellowship for the Burning Landscapes project Photo Credit: iStock.com/Patrick Honan
iCASTS is a virtual reality system that recreates mine environments for training scenarios, displayed in multiple theatre modes including AVIE for group training and iDome for individual training.
iModel investigates an interactive spatial aesthetic that facilitates the digital modelling of operatic rehearsal design.
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Dr Wafa Johal, Co-Leader of the iCinema Intelligent Database Systems program, has been awarded a prestigious ARC DECRA Fellowship to investigate human-centred robot learning enabling machines to adapt to their environment. Funding includes two PhD appointments.
Professor Del Favero has been awarded a five-year $3.5M ARC Laureate Fellowship to develop an AI visualisation platform that can artistically depict unpredictable wildfire scenarios, with funding for two Programmers, two Post-Docs and two PhDs.
Professor Del Favero and a team including Prof Scott-Mitchell, Prof Pagnucco, Aspro Bednarz, Dr Thurrow and Dr Yip, along with Lyndon Terracini AM, Artistic Director of Opera Australia and Georgia Rivers, its Executive Director, have been awarded a $560,000 ARC Linkage grant to develop a networked virtual rehearsal modelling system for Opera Australia.
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Email: d.delfavero@unsw.edu.au Phone: + 61 2 9385 0630