(Creaform: Québec) -- Denis Laurendeau, a professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Université Laval in Quebec, and his research team have launched the NSERC/Creaform Industrial Research Chair on 3-D scanning—3D-CREATION—with the objective to democratize 3-D scanning technologies.

“Our goal is to develop innovative applications and user-friendly tools that will meet the users’ needs and the requirements of the future generations of 3-D digital sensors,” says Laurendeau.

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) notes the objective of the Industrial Research Chairs (IRC) are to assist universities in pursuing new directions, or in building on existing strengths to achieve the critical mass required for a major research endeavor in science and engineering of interest to industry.

The 3D-CREATION Chair will focus its work on three major lines of investigation: intelligent multisensory data acquisition, modeling and recognition (geometry, appearance, movement, behavior), and visualization and action (of web applications, for instance).

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