This project is both multidisciplinary and intersectorial. Virtual Anthropology (VA) and Geometric Morphometrics (GMM) are already interdisciplines; both arose by modifying core ideas of geometric statistics in response to very specific needs of data representations in classic anthropometrics and medical imaging. The extensions proposed will bring together partners from diverse fields such as physical anthropology, medicine, mathematics, physics, computer science, software development, economics, or museum curation to incorporate know-how into targets such as electronic preparation and virtual fragment assembly, medical diagnosis tools, surface scanning technology, immersive virtual technologies, facial recognition systems, professional software production, or Rapid Prototyping, thereby precipitating a lively transfer of knowledge and collaboration between the academic, clinical, industrial and private & public research sector. European hard- and software industries will be able to take advantage of these new resources proposed for anatomical analysis
and representations.

Moreover, large investments have been made at the European level to collect data, and many institutions hold a tremendous amount of data in their archives.
Our network intends to train researchers to make more effective use of those data resources.

Europe needs more people trained to get information out, not just to put it in.

EVAN Tasks:

Task Area A: Methods, Tools & Data

Task Area B: Applications in Biology, Medicine & Industry

Task B1: Specific Domains of Investigations
Task B2: Resources for Transfer of Knowledge

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