Formal name: Dr. P.S. César Garcia
Function: Scientific Staff Member
Room: M369
Homepage: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~garcia/
Research groups: Distributed and Interactive Systems
Research
Pablo Cesar is a researcher in the Distributed and Interactive Systems research group at CWI. He received his PhD from the Helsinki University of Technology in 2006. He has (co)authored over 50 articles (conference papers and journal articles) about multimedia systems and infrastructures, social media sharing, interactive media, multimedia content modeling, and user interaction. He is involved in standardization activities (e.g., SMIL from W3C) and has been active in a number of European projects such as REVERIE, Vconect, TA2, iNEM4U, Passepartout, and SPICE. He is co-editor of the book "Social Interactive Television: Immersive Shared Experiences and Perspectives" and has given tutorials about multimedia systems in prestigious conferences such as ACM Multimedia, ACM CHI, and the WWW conference.
Career
| 2013 - | Scientific staff member DIS - Distributed and interactive systems |
| 2008 - 2011 | Scientific staff member/tenure track SEN5 - Distributed and Interactive Systems |
| 2005 - 2007 | Scientific staff member/postdoc SEN5 - Distributed and Interactive Systems |
Selected Awards and Honours
| 2008 | EuroITV 2008 |
| 2008 | ACM international conference on multimedia, October 2008 |
Selected Academic Activities
| 2011 | Keynote lecture Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web |
| 2011 - | Member editorial board Journal: Elsevier Entertainment Computing - [EntCom] |
| 2010 | Keynote lecture Miami, FL, USA - Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing and Networks - [UbiCoNet] |
| 2010 - 2011 | Member working group European Union - [EU] - Future Media Internet Architecture Think Tank |
| 2009 - | Member editorial board Journal: Multimedia Tools and Applications - [MTA] |
| 2008 | Keynote lecture London, UK - Workshop on TV-Centric Services |
| 2007 - | Member editorial board Journal: ACM Computers and Entertainment |
| 2006 - 2012 | Member working group W3C - [W3C] - SYMM |
Selected Publications
| R.L. Guimarães, Pablo Cesar, D.C.A. Bulterman, V. Zsombori, I. Kegel. Creating personalized memories from social events: community-based support for multi-camera recordings of school concerts. Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 2011, Scottsdale, AZ, USA, 303–312, 2011. |
| Jack Jansen, Pablo Cesar, T. Stevens, I. Kegel, J. Issing. Enabling Composition-Based Video-Conferencing for the Home. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 13, 869–881, 2011. |
| R. Kernchen, Pablo Cesar, S. Meissner, M. Boussard, K. Moessner, C. Hesselman, I. Vaishnavi. Intelligent multimedia presentation in ubiquitous multidevice scenarios. IEEE MultiMedia 17, 52–63, 2010. |
| Pablo Cesar, D.C.A. Bulterman, Jack Jansen. Leveraging the user impact: an architecture for secondary screens usage in an interactive television environment. ACM Multimedia Systems Journal 15, 127–142, 2009. |
| Pablo Cesar, D.C.A. Bulterman, Jack Jansen, D. Geerts, H. Knoche, W. Seager. Fragment, tag, enrich, and send: Enhancing the social sharing of videos. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing 5, 19, 2009. |
| Pablo Cesar, K. Chorianopoulos. The evolution of TV systems, content, and users towards interactivity. Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction 2, 279–373, 2009. |
| Pablo Cesar(editor), D. Geerts(editor), K. Chorianopoulos(editor). Social Interactive Television: Immersive Shared Experiences and Perspectives. IGI Global Publishing. 2009. |
