About
The SAUCE consortium is composed of 8 partners from 6 different European countries, coordinated by UPF. SAUCE includes two industry partners, one industrial partner, and 5 academic partners. The partners cover all parts of digital asset re-use in terms of creation, consumption & visualisation; the industries are complementary in terms of the targets of their activity; the industrial research institutes combine research expertise and impact potential; the research universities have complementary expertise within a very high profile, they provide specific concentrations of specialist effort. The school provides an excellent base for continueous creative testing of SAUCE innovations all along the project, complementing the industrial testing.
The SAUCE consortium is composed of 9 partners from 6 different European countries, coordinated by UPF.
Email us at info.sauceproject@upf.edu
Meet the Partners
Universitat Pompeu Fabra - UPF was established in 1990 as a public university with a strong dedication to excellence in research and teaching. It is the one of the few Spanish universities in the world Top 150 (Times Higher Education ranking 2015). The research team, with four post-docs, is international and multidisciplinary, with a compound expertise covering image processing, computer vision, mathematics, neuroscience, visual perception and filmmaking. Find out more...
Foundry designs creative software technologies used to deliver award-winning visual effects and 3D content for the design, visualization and entertainment industries. Foundry’s software advances the art and technology of visual experience in partnership with creative leaders across the globe. It enables clients like Pixar, Mercedes-Benz, Google, ILM, Weta Digital, The Moving Picture Company and Sony Pictures Imageworks to turn incredible ideas into reality, by solving complex creative challenges. Find out more...
BRNO University of Technology (BUT, Czech Republic) is the second largest technical university in the Czech Republic. Research activities include content recognition from image and video, multimodal interaction, human-computer interfaces, hardware-accelerated video processing, high-performance and cloud computing, knowledge representation and reasoning and semantic web technologies. FIT is involved in the international cooperation with more than 30 research and education centers in Europe, USA, India and China. Find out more...
Trinity College Dublin Founded in 1592, is the oldest university in Ireland and one of the oldest universities of Western Europe. TCD is recognised internationally as Ireland's premier university and was ranked 108th in the top world universities by the QS World University Rankings 2019. TCD’s School of Computer Science and Statistics (SCSS) is one of the largest computer science departments in Ireland and the UK and consists of over 60 academic staff, with almost 230 full-time postgraduate students. Find out more...
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Animationsinstitut is an international film school founded in 1991 offering students an exceptional learning experience through a project-oriented curriculum that provides hands-on learning in all the different stages of film and media production. Training follows a practical approach, encouraging interdisciplinary exchange with all students at Filmakademie. This is complemented by innovative academic research and facilities equipped with state of the art technology. Its student films continuously win awards on the festival circuit. Find out more...
DNEG was founded in 1998 with a team of thirty: it has since grown into one of the world's leading providers of visual effects for Film. Their emphasis on retaining both the creative drive and involvement of its artists through all projects and a close collaborative working relationship with film makers has proved a winning combination resulting in awards recognition from the Academy® Awards (for Inception, Interstellar, Ex Machina), BAFTA (for Inception, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2, Interstellar) and the Visual Effects Society (for Inception, Sherlock Holmes, Interstellar). Find out more...
The IVCI is a central research facility of Saarland University focusing on basic and applied research in Visual Computing. It is a joint effort between Intel and the Saarland Informatics Campus with the aim of Open Collaborative Research between industry and academia. Saarland Informatics Campus is the leading Computer Science research facility in Germany, gathering the University with world class basic institutional research represented by the two Max-Planck-Institutes for Informatics and for Software Systems and applied institutional research represented by the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence. Find out more...
DisneyResearch|Studios (DRS, Switzerland) focuses on exploring the scientific frontiers in a variety of domains in service to the technical and creative filmmaking process. Our world-class research talent in visual computing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence shapes early-stage ideas into technological innovations that revolutionize the way we produce movies and create media content. Find out more...