The Interactive
Media Technology Center (IMTC) is a research, design, and education
center focusing on technology, education, culture,
and medicine. IMTC is located in the Technology Square Research Building (TSRB) on the Georgia Tech campus.
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A Little History...
IMTC was founded in 1989 to demonstrate how the multimedia computer
could replace the long established architectural models that had
been used to show what candidate Olympic facilities would look like
if a city were chosen to host the games. IMTC created two high tech
multimedia tours of Atlanta that helped convince the International
Olympic Committee that Atlanta had the right stuff to host the Centennial
Games. As former Mayor Andrew Young said, “We had high tech
southern hospitality. It was the high tech that did it.”
Since that highly successful beginning, IMTC has grown and adapted
to meet the needs of the research community, businesses and industry.
Who Are We?
We are a team of interactive media experts that includes
computer scientists, electrical engineers, and graphic artists.
IMTC is a multimedia research center at the The Georgia Institute
of Technology. IMTC has grown and adapted to meet the needs of business
and industry in the USA and abroad by developing and using multimedia
technology for enhancement of their core business. IMTC’s
mission is to assist companies in developing advanced multimedia
systems while educating students in multimedia technologies and
techniques.
The center also works closely with faculty in a number of other
units at Georgia Tech and with numerous other organizations that
share and support multimedia technology. For example, IMTC collaborates
with The Georgia Center for Advanced Telecommunications Technology,
a joint research effort that includes Georgia Tech, Emory University,
the Medical College of Georgia, Georgia State University, and The
University of Georgia.
What Can We Do?
IMTC continues to grow and adapt to meet the needs of business and
industry. We develop and use interactive multimedia technology to
enhance such areas as education, business, the arts, sports, and medicine.
IMTC serves industrial clients in almost any capacity, from basic
research, to developing complete turnkey systems, to assisting internal
staff in the completion of projects, to training staff in multimedia
techniques.
Our research, interests and projects include but are not limited to:
- Augmented, virtual, and mixed reality
- Applied Human Computer Interaction
- Accessibility and disability research and development
- Ubiquitous computing
- Medical technologies
- Telehealth
- Audio and voice processing
- Entertainment
- Novel user-interface design
- Mobile and wearable computing
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- Large-scale multimedia applications
- High-speed speech and audio searching
- Custom application software
- Custom electronics design and fabrication
- Interactive kiosks
- Dynamic website design
- Education and computer based training
- 3D animation and video production
- Human motion capture technologies
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Working with Us...
IMTC works with industry and business via a variety of mechanisms,
including research contracts, grants and donations, and through
Georgia
Tech’s Corporate Liaison Program.
IMTC also collaborates with many other academic and research
groups on the Georgia Tech campus through joint grants and contracts. |
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