Bringing Traffic to Life: A Web-Based Traffic Simulation for Smart City Digital Twin
Have you ever wondered how traffic simulations can help shape smarter cities? Our latest development, within the scope of the DIDYMOS-XR project, brings an interactive Smart City Digital Twin, to your web browser. This means no downloads and no installations for users, just seamless access to a real-time traffic simulation powered by the technical systems SUMO, Unity 3D, and WebGL. We developed […]
Testing With Human Users: What Can Go Wrong?
When Testing is Not Tested We are at that point in DIDYMOS-XR where we begin the validation of the technologies developed with users. In our previous blog we discussed the technology we are developing at the Vision and Robotics Lab at the American University of Beirut, where humans use augmented reality (AR) headsets to improve digital twins’ generation and maintenance In […]
Experiencing IEEE AIxVR 2025 in Lisbon: A Deep Dive into Digital Twins, Extended Reality and Artificial Intelligence
IEEE AIxVR 2025 is the premier international conference dedicated to the convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and extended reality (XR). The event serves as a platform for researchers, industry leaders, and developers to share cutting-edge advancements in AI-powered XR applications. AIxVR 2025 showcased groundbreaking research, interactive demonstrations, and thought-provoking discussions, making it an essential gathering for […]
Understanding Digital Twins and Their Role in Combatting Air Pollution
Digital twins are virtual models that replicate physical systems in real time. They integrate data from various sources, enabling the simulation and analysis of complex scenarios such as DIDYMOS-XR’s industrial, tourist, or city maintenance and planning use cases, for example. For local planners, digital twins offer a transformative tool for addressing challenges like air pollution, […]
SHREC 2023: Point cloud change detection for city scenes
Federated Learning for Lidar Super Resolution on Automotive Scenes
DIDYMOS-XR Shines at the Smart City World Expo Congress and Tomorrow.Mobility in Barcelona
Showcasing Innovation in Urban Development The DIDYMOS-XR project was prominently featured at the Smart City World Expo Congress and Tomorrow.Mobility 2024, held in Barcelona between November 5th and 7th. This esteemed event serves as a global platform for urban innovators to showcase their initiatives, technologies, and solutions aimed at creating smarter, more sustainable cities. The […]
Data Processing for Digital Twins: Applications and Future Directions
Introduction Data and application management play a key role in the development and deployment of digital twin applications. To build and update realistic digital twins, a significant and consistent amount of data is required. This data can be of many types (image/video, LiDAR, odometry, object/scene information etc.), and a similar variety can be found in […]
AI-Powered Digital Twins: Revolutionizing Urban Planning with XR
Is it a far-fetched future that AI can effectively solve traffic congestion and plan better cities? We don’t think so. The integration of AI, digital twins, and XR will reshape the future of urban planning, offering cities smarter, more responsive infrastructures. This transformation is being accelerated by projects like DIDYMOS-XR, an EU-funded initiative focusing on […]
Federated Learning for Lidar Super Resolution on Automotive Scenes
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SHREC 2023: Point cloud change detection for city scenes
SHREC 2023 – Point cloud change detection for city scenes
Revolutionizing XR: Compression and Rendering Techniques for Volumetric Video in DIDYMOS-XR
Introduction The objective of DIDYMOS-XR is to advance the technologies needed for creating digital twins and developing 3D capturing systems for objects and scenes. This involves keeping digital twins of factories or cities updated by automatically analyzing sensor data to refresh the digital models. In recent years the pursuit of high fidelity and immersion has […]
Press announcement: Capgemini joins the DIDYMOS-XR consortium
The DIDYMOS-XR consortium today announces a change in its membership, bringing fresh expertise into our work on developing digital twins for applications such as city planning and maintenance, tourism and industry. Capgemini has acquired Unity’s Digital Twin Professional Services division, and is taking up its role within the project as our newest technical partner. DIDYMOS-XR […]
3D Asset Creation for Simulation and AI Model Training
This blog post provides a high-level overview of the art and science of 3D asset creation, highlighting the techniques, tools, and innovations that empower creators to construct compelling virtual realities and drive the production of accurate, dynamic digital twins. Advancing these methods is the central mission of the DIDYMOS-XR project. Advancements in Rendering Technologies High-quality […]
NeRF and Digital Twins
Revolutionizing Realism and Immersion Have you ever watched a movie in virtual reality and felt scared when items and objects came flying towards you? Perhaps you have used augmented reality glasses to place furniture and paintings in your empty living room to see what it’s like. Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies […]
DIDYMOS-XR Use Case Implementation
The primary goal of DIDYMOS-XR is to research and develop robust and scalable methods for 3D scene reconstruction using heterogeneous cameras and sensor data. One of the most challenging aspects of this, is the time required to implement and validate the research outcomes. To address this, the DIDYMOS-XR Consortium is putting in significant effort to […]
Impact of large-scale digital twins
Ethics and data protection in DIDYMOS-XR The creation of large-scale digital twins comes with inherent ethical and privacy-related concerns, such as in the DIDYMOS-XR project, which seeks to capture and re-create scenes of public spaces. As the methods for creating the digital twins are still at an experimental stage, so too do the issues associated […]
Designing for the Future: How Do Stories, Cases, and Personas Shape Successful Projects?
Introduction: The Power of User-Centric Design In today’s fast-moving tech world, making projects that really help users is key. User-centric design puts the user’s needs and feedback first. It’s all about making products that are easy to use, and which solve real problems. This approach uses tools like user stories, use cases, and personas to […]
First Results on Virtual Reconstruction of the City of Vilanova i la Geltrú
The first year of the DIDYMOS-XR project has yielded some exciting results followed by new ideas and work for 2024! The Spanish partners in DIDYMOS-XR, I2CAT and Neàpolis met at FICOSA’s facilities to review the first year’s results and future work. The visit included a tour of FICOSA’s installations, labs and the testing site […]
DIDYMOS-XR 4th plenary meeting
Importance of users and inclusivity The DIDMYOS-XR consortium met in person on 12-14th December 2023 in Lippstadt, Germany where we were hosted by project partner Hochschule Hamm-Lippstadt (HSHL). The primary aim of this face-to-face meeting was to update on the development of the technologies underlying the digital twin capture and discuss the aligning processes necessary […]
Advancements in Cooperative Driving Systems using Digital Twin Technologies and in Content-Adaptation Rendering for Demanding XR Interactions.
A Showcase of DIDYMOS-XR’s recent research achievements. The University of Patras (UPAT), as a vital member of the DIDYMOS-XR team, recently achieved a significant milestone with the acceptance of their scientific paper titled “Cooperative Saliency-Based Pothole Detection and AR Rendering for Increased Situational Awareness”. It has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on […]
Navigating the Great Outdoors: DTT explores the prospect of Semantic SLAM for mapping large scale outdoor scenes.
Semantic SLAM for better navigation in outdoor scenes. Our team at Digital Twin Technology (DTT) is exploring and researching semantic SLAM algorithms to address the scope of mapping large-scale outdoor scenes, which is an important part of the DIDYMOS-XR project. SLAM, short for simultaneous localization and mapping, involves the concurrent mapping of an area […]
American University Beirut and idealworks Partnering to Bring you the Digital Factory
AR with a Purpose As part of DIDYMOS-XR, the team at the Vision and Robotics Lab at AUB developed what we call Human-in-the-loop mapping. This is a technology which enables a user wearing an AR headset to visualize a 3D map of an environment superimposed over reality in real time. The benefit of a system […]
DIDYMOS-XR 3rd consortium meeting
The DIDMYOS -XR consortium met in person on 13-15 September May 2023 for its 3rd Consortium Meeting. The project partners gathered in Patras, Greece, where we were hosted by the University of Patras project partner. The primary aim of this latest consortium meeting was to define the user requirements as they related to the project […]
DIDYMOS-XR and its Use Cases at FIWARE Global Summit 2023
From 12-13 June 2023, DIDYMOS-XR presented an overview on the project and the current vision of use cases to be addressed at the FIWARE Summit. In the beginning of June 2023, more than 420 people gathered for a three day event in Vienna. What a gorgeous environment – the FIWARE Global Summit this year was […]
Exploring the Future of Immersive Realities at QoMEX 2023: Towards Sustainable and Inclusive Multimedia Experiences
The 15th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX) was held in Ghent, Belgium from 20-22 June 2023. The conference which brought together specialists from across academia and business, featured major developments in multimedia quality, user experience (UX), and well-being. QoMEX 2023 pushed the boundaries of multimedia technology, fostering collaboration among diverse communities with […]
Press announcement: New EU-funded project launched which aims to create large-scale Digital Twins, synchronised in real-time with the real world
The digital transformation and availability of more diverse and cost-effective methods for 3D capture have led to the creation of digitised representations of parts of our public spaces, machinery and processes, commonly referred to as digital twins. In order to realise advanced virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications for cityscapes and industrial environments, […]
