Two of the authors, Kalle and Tomas, are at Lund University, in sort of the perfect fields for this project - Computer vision and computer graphics (Tomas wrote

Two of the authors, Kalle and Tomas, are at Lund University, in sort of the perfect fields for this project - Computer vision and computer graphics (Tomas wrote _the_ book on real-time rendering). I think Jacob is a graphics guy as well. My guess on the funding is spare time and spare university resources.