Abstract: An information processing apparatus and method for relighting captured images in a virtual reality environment is provided. Righting processing performed by the apparatus includes acquiring an input image, acquiring a target image, determining at least one shared reference region for the acquired input image and at least one shared reference region for the acquired target image, determining a transform matrix based on the color space of the shared region, applying the transform matrix to at least a portion of the acquired input image, outputting the transformed portion of the acquired input image, and displaying the outputted transformed portion of the acquired input image.

Abstract: A system for immersive virtual reality communication that includes a first capture device configured to capture a stream of images of a first user, a first network configured to transmit the captured stream of images of the first user, a second network configured to receive data based at least in part on the captured stream of images of the first user and a first virtual reality device used by a second user, wherein the first virtual reality device is configured to render a virtual environment and to produce a rendition of the first user based at least in part on the data based at least in part on the stream of images of the first user produced by the first capture device.

Abstract: The present invention is a method and system for treating iron-contaminated water (e.g., mine drainage) using an innovative treatment approach identified herein as the Activated Iron Solids (AIS) Process. The AIS process is capable of oxidizing and removing iron as iron oxides from iron-contaminated waters (such as, mining-related discharge, groundwater, surface water and industrial waste streams) producing a clean effluent. The AIS process is performed in a single or multiple tank system in which a catalytic surface chemistry process increases the iron removal 1000s times faster than would naturally occur and 100s of times faster than existing arts (e.g., aerobic pond passive treatment). In addition, the AIS process can utilize inexpensive alkaline material (such as, pulverized limestone) where initial mine drainage alkalinity (mg/L as CaCO3) to ferrous iron (mg/L) ratio is less than approximately 1.7.