In 2015, the Department of Signal Processing at Tampere University of Technology established a national-wide infrastructure facility, CIVIT. CIVIT is jointly funded by the Academy of Finland, and Tampere University.

CIVIT’s main purpose is to provide expertise and facilities for studying and utilizing emerging visual technologies and the related new user experience with the aim to enhance the existing and to develop new scientific and industrial applications where advanced visualization is a must.

CIVIT is a valuable tool in the realization of many research projects in the area of ultra-realistic 3D scene capture and advanced visualisation as it allows access to an unprecedented level of high quality, state-of-the-art equipment in an economically efficient way. All branches of visual technology are available without having to allocate significant portions of the research project’s resources for equipment purchases, allowing it instead to focus purely on research and achieving the objectives set.

CIVIT is committed to the practices of open science. For example, CIVIT provides creation and maintenance of public datasets for various application fields and use-cases. Please see this model for more information on the workflow for introducing different stages of dataset creation from planning to publishing. Examples of open data sets can be found from the datasets & software page.

Our CIVIT team consists of our Director Atanas Gotchev, Staff Scientist Jussi Rantala, CIVIT Master Jani Käpylä, Project Coordinator Ville Pihlajamäki, Software Engineer Devangini Patel, Hardware Engineer Haider Nadeem and Project Managers Olli Suominen, Robert Bregovic and Erdem Sahin. Also, the 3D Media Research Group has access to CIVIT and they use the research infrastructure actively.