商品描述
The metaverse is sweeping the global thanks to its fundamentally innovative concepts of physical-virtual blended reality and years of industrial efforts on relevant hardware development. It is yet unclear what the metaverse is, what technologies it relies on, and what concern the society should care about since it is such a huge ecosystem with nearly unlimited possibilities. The book aims to provide a comprehensive study on the metaverse including its development and ecosystem, and detailed descriptions of multiple key technologies with their challenges and state-of-the-art solutions, finally conclude with several important societal issues the metaverse may raise including concerns and suggestions. The book targets at providing understandable introductions to varied aspects of the metaverse that may appearnew to common
audiences, and, deep insights into a number of key directions for related professionals.
The purpose of the book is to help readers better understand the concept and current status of metaverse while inspiring relevant readers or institutes to spot interesting and challenging topics to follow.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
元宇宙正在全球範圍內迅速崛起，這得益於其在物理與虛擬融合現實的根本創新概念以及多年來在相關硬體開發上的產業努力。然而，元宇宙究竟是什麼、依賴哪些技術，以及社會應該關注哪些問題，仍然不明朗，因為它是一個擁有幾乎無限可能性的龐大生態系統。本書旨在提供對元宇宙的全面研究，包括其發展與生態系統，以及多項關鍵技術的詳細描述，並探討其挑戰與最先進的解決方案，最後總結元宇宙可能引發的幾個重要社會議題，包括關注與建議。本書的目標是為普通讀者提供對元宇宙各個方面的易懂介紹，並為相關專業人士提供深入的見解。
本書的目的是幫助讀者更好地理解元宇宙的概念和當前狀態，同時激勵相關讀者或機構發掘有趣且具挑戰性的主題以進行深入研究。
作者簡介
Professor Pan Hui is a Chair Professor of Computational Media and Arts and Director of the Centre for Metaverse and Computational Creativity at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), and a Chair Professor of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas and Director of the HKUST-DT Systems and Media Lab, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research has been generously sponsored by Nokia, Deutsche Telekom, Microsoft Research, and China Mobile. His other notable academic profile also includes the Nokia Chair in Data Science and a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a member of Academia Europaea, an IEEE Fellow, and an ACM Distinguished Scientist. He is also a founding member of the INTERPOL Expert Group on Metaverse and a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on the Future of Metaverse. Dr Peng Yuan Zhou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Aarhus University. He was a research associate professor at USTC from 2021 to 2023. He got his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Helsinki, mainly funded by the EU Marie Curie ITN. Dr. Zhou leads the XR Lab at Aarhus University, where his group works on exploring AI for XR in terms of immersive scene generation, understanding, and streaming. He has served as conference organizer/PC and journal reviewer for AAAI, IJCAI, MM, ISMAR, MobiCom, CHI Play, IEEE TDSC, TPDS, TMC, TWC, TIP, TITS, TCCN, etc. Dr. Lik-Hang Lee received a PhD degree from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Prior to joining ISE, he was an assistant professor with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea, and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oulu, Finland (2019-2020). Also, he was an awardee of the Hong Kong Awards for Industries (Creativity and Innovation) in 2021, due to his achievement of employing augmented reality systems in Hong Kong classrooms. His research interests are to build and design various human-centric computing systems, specializing in augmented and virtual realities (AR/VR). Dr. Lee has published no fewer than 50 works in well-recognized journals, conferences, and magazines. He has served the research community at prestigious conferences and journals in recent years, such as AAAI, IJCAI, PERCOM, CHI, Multimedia, AAAI ICWSM, IMWUT, ACM CSUR, IEEE VR, etc. Dr. Tristan Braud is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Integrative Systems and Design at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Université Grenoble Alpes in 2016, following a Master of Engineering degree jointly awarded by Grenoble INP in France and Politecnico di Torino in Italy. Dr. Braud leads the Extended Reality and Immersive Media Lab (XRIM Lab) at HKUST, where his research spans augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), the Metaverse, pervasive computing, and human-centered systems design. His work focuses on developing large-scale XR systems with user experience placed at their core.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
潘輝教授是香港科技大學（廣州）計算媒體與藝術的講座教授及元宇宙與計算創意中心的主任，同時也是香港科技大學新興跨學科領域的講座教授及系統與媒體實驗室的主任。他的研究得到了諾基亞、德國電信、微軟研究和中國移動的慷慨資助。他的其他顯著學術背景還包括芬蘭赫爾辛基大學的諾基亞數據科學講座教授及計算機科學教授。他是英國皇家工程院的國際院士、歐洲學院的成員、IEEE Fellow及ACM傑出科學家。他也是INTERPOL元宇宙專家小組的創始成員，以及世界經濟論壇元宇宙未來全球未來委員會的成員。 周鵬源博士是奧胡斯大學電氣與計算機工程系的助理教授。他在2021年至2023年間擔任中國科學技術大學的研究副教授。他在赫爾辛基大學獲得計算機科學博士學位，主要由歐盟瑪麗居里ITN資助。 周博士領導奧胡斯大學的XR實驗室，他的團隊專注於探索人工智慧在XR中的應用，包括沉浸式場景生成、理解和串流。他曾擔任AAAI、IJCAI、MM、ISMAR、MobiCom、CHI Play、IEEE TDSC、TPDS、TMC、TWC、TIP、TITS、TCCN等會議的組織者/程序委員會成員及期刊審稿人。 李力行博士在香港科技大學獲得博士學位。在加入ISE之前，他曾是韓國科學技術院（KAIST）的助理教授，以及芬蘭奧盧大學的博士後研究員（2019-2020）。此外，他因在香港教室中應用擴增實境系統的成就而於2021年獲得香港工業獎（創意與創新）獎項。 他的研究興趣在於構建和設計各種以人為中心的計算系統，專注於擴增實境和虛擬實境（AR/VR）。李博士在知名期刊、會議和雜誌上發表了不少於50篇的作品。他在近年來的知名會議和期刊中服務於研究社群，如AAAI、IJCAI、PERCOM、CHI、多媒體、AAAI ICWSM、IMWUT、ACM CSUR、IEEE VR等。 特里斯坦·布勞德博士是香港科技大學（HKUST）整合系統與設計部的助理教授。他於2016年在法國格勒諾布爾阿爾卑斯大學獲得計算機科學博士學位，並獲得由法國格勒諾布爾INP和意大利都靈理工大學共同頒發的工程碩士學位。 布勞德博士領導香港科技大學的擴增實境與沉浸媒體實驗室（XRIM Lab），他的研究涵蓋擴增實境（AR）、虛擬實境（VR）、元宇宙、普遍計算和以人為中心的系統設計。他的工作專注於開發以用戶體驗為核心的大規模XR系統。
