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DIS group releases open source software for digital humanities
Together with European partners the DIS group investigated the potential which opera could have to foster social transformation in disparate communities through the use of technology.
DIS group contributes to book on Immersive Video Technologies
The book Immersive Video Technologies offers a comprehensive overview of the leading technologies enabling visual immersion, including omnidirectional (360 degrees) video, light fields, and volumetric video.
Over 1 million euros for CWI and Sound & Vison for XR research
Centrum Wiskunde &Informatica (CWI) and Sound & Vision are partners in the recently launched European research project TransMIXR. TransMIXR develops technologies that enable professionals in the cultural and creative industries to create …
DIS group supports community opera that premiered in Barcelona
The Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group played a special role in the creation of an opera.
DIS wins best demo award at ACM Multimedia 2022
The DIS group from CWI has received the demo award at ACM International Conference on Multimedia, with the paper “Mediascape XR: A cultural heritage experience in Social VR”.
Fine-Grained Temporal Emotion Recognition in Video
CWI PhD student Tianyi Zhang will defend his PhD thesis "On Fine-Grained Temporal Emotion Recognition in Video: How to Trade off Recognition Accuracy with Annotation Complexity?" at TU Delft 3 October.
Shaping the technologies that impact our democracy
Misinformation is just one of many problems we face with the rise of artificial intelligence. Technology is impacting our democracy in an unprecedented way. That is why CWI, the university of Amsterdam …
Remote, but still together
After two years of COVID-19 we all know that communicating through a flat screen is exhausting. Since long before that, Pablo Cesar, group leader of CWI's DIS group and professor at TU …
