The Film University is a central partner in the EU-funded Horizon project IMPULSE (2024-2026), where the Creative eXchange Studio (CX Studio) conducts research on the usability of digital cultural heritage objects in virtual worlds. CX Studio has recently been active in assessing a wide range of such objects drawn from partner institutions, including the Film Museum Potsdam, an affiliated institute of Film University who provided film costumes for use as 3D object source material.
AI workflows can assist in bringing valuable historical objects to life, such as the Nibelungen dress from Fritz Lang's 1924 film 'Die Nibelungen'. The dress was briefly removed from secure storage for preparatory photography. Such workflows can also breathe new life into data sets; one recent example used spreadsheet data from KU Leuven to create rich imagery to illustrate data visualisations. Future objects to be contributed by the Film Museum will include film-related technologies such as camera cranes and recording equipment, with the goal of making such valuable objects accessible to a wider audience in 3D.
IMPULSE continues for a further two years, by which time the project aims to have created a blueprint for the enhanced use of cultural heritage content, in particular audio-visual 3D content, by today's cultural heritage institutions.
