Pablo Santiago César Garcia

Biography

Research

Dr. Pablo Cesar leads Distributed and Interactive Systems group (http://www.dis.cwi.nl) at CWI and is Associate Professor at TU Delft. Pablo‘s research focuses on modeling and controlling complex collections of media objects (including real-time media and sensor data) that are distributed in time and space. His fundamental interest is in understanding how different customizations of such collections affect the user experience. In particular, he is interested about the following research questions:

• Dynamic media creation and production: facilitating temporal compilations and aggregations based on the dynamic constraints (preferences, context);
• User response and attention: development of mechanisms for monitoring and modeling user affinity and engagement to events and media content; and
• Social and immersive consumption of media: policies and interfaces for content adaptation.

Pablo Cesar is the PI of two EU-funded projects on connected media experiences: VRTogether (focusing on 3D) and 2-IMMERSE (focusing on multi-platform consumption of media). He was recently the PI of two Public Private Partnership projects with Xinhuanet (2014-2016) and ByBorre (2016). These projects explored the use of sensor technology and smart textiles for better monitoring the experience of users participating in cultural or educational events. Pablo participated as PI as well in very successful EU-funded projects like REVERIE (2011-2015) and Vconect (2011-2014). He has keynoted at venues such as the International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems (2017), the Sense of Contact Conference (2016), and the International Workshop on Immersive Media Experiences (2015). Pablo has (co)-authored over 100 articles with several of his publications winning the best paper award: PhyCS (2016, ACM MMsys (2016 and 2013)… He is member of the editorial board of, among others, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (IEEE TMM) and ACM Transactions on Multimedia (TOMM). Pablo has given tutorials about multimedia systems in prestigious conferences such as ACM Multimedia, CHI, and the WWW conference. He acted as an invited expert at the European Commission‘s Future Media Internet Architecture Think Tank and participates in standardization activities at MPEG (point-cloud compression) and ITU (QoE for multi-party tele-meetings).

Publications

• Montagud Climent, M.A, Cesar Garcia, P.S, Boronat, F, & Jansen, A.J. (2018). Introduction to media synchronization (Mediasync). In MediaSync: Handbook on Multimedia Synchronization (pp. 3–31). doi:10.1007/978-3-319-65840-7_1
• Shirzadian, N, Redi, J.A, Röggla, T, Panza, A, Nack, F.-M, & Cesar Garcia, P.S. (2017). Immersion and togetherness: How live visualization of audience engagement can enhance music events. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology. (pp. 488–507). doi:10.1007/978-3-319-76270-8_34
• Schmitt, M.R, Redi, J.A, Bulterman, D.C.A, & Cesar Garcia, P.S. (2017). Towards individual QoE for multi-party video conferencing. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, PP(99). doi:10.1109/TMM.2017.2777466
• Cesar Garcia, P.S. (2017). Sensing engagement: Helping performers to evaluate their impact. In MultiEdTech 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Workshop on Multimedia-Based Educational and Knowledge Technologies for Personalized and Social Online Training, co-located with MM 2017. doi:10.1145/3132390.3132391
• Röggla, T, Shirzadian, N, Zheng, Z, Panza, A, & Cesar Garcia, P.S. (2017). Enhancing music events using physiological sensor data. In MM 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Multimedia Conference (pp. 1239–1240). doi:10.1145/3123266.3127919
• Lu, S.-P, Florea, R.-M, Cesar Garcia, P.S, Schelkens, P, & Munteanu, A. (2017). Efficient depth-aware image deformation adaptation for curved screen displays. In Thematic Workshops 2017 - Proceedings of the Thematic Workshops of ACM Multimedia 2017, co-located with MM 2017 (pp. 442–450). doi:10.1145/3126686.3126692
• Kleinrouweler, J.W.M, Bajo, F, Meixner, B, Cabrero Barros, S, & Cesar Garcia, P.S. (2017). Mobile instant video sharing: Does more information help?. In Thematic Workshops 2017 - Proceedings of the Thematic Workshops of ACM Multimedia 2017, co-located with MM 2017 (pp. 153–160). doi:10.1145/3126686.3126709
• Cesar Garcia, P.S. (2017). Sensing the Audience: Connecting Fashion, Senses, and Spaces. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems (PhyCS2017) (pp. 5–5).
• Röggla, T, Wang, C, Pérez Romero, L, Jansen, A.J, & Cesar Garcia, P.S. (2017). Tangible air: An interactive installation for visualising audience engagement. In C and C 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition (pp. 263–265). doi:10.1145/3059454.3078708
• Kleinrouweler, J.W.M, Meixner, B, & Cesar Garcia, P.S. (2017). Improving Video Quality in Crowded Networks Using a DANE. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (ACM NOSSDAV 2017) (pp. 73–78). doi:10.1145/3083165.3083167

Current projects with external funding

• Creating and Delivering Shared and Personalised Multi-Screen Broadcast and Broadband Experiences (2-IMMERSE)
• Overeenkomst met Xinhua Network(deel 2): Cooperation of Industry Doctor (PPS Xinhua Network (deel 2))
• An end-to-end system for the production and delivery of photorealistic social immersive virtual reality experiences (VRTogether)
• WEAR SUSTAIN (WEAR)

Professional activities

• Professor: Technische Universiteit Delft - [TUD]
• Committee member: International Federation for Information Processing - [IFIP] - WG 14.6
• Committee member: W3C Web and TV Interest Group - [WebTV]
• Committee member: Moving Picture Experts Group 3D Graphics - [MPEG 3DG]
• Committee member: International Telecommunication Union - [ITU] 2013-01
• Committee member: ACM International Multimedia Conference - [ACM Multimedia]
• Committee member: ACM Symposium on Document Engineering - [DocEng]
• Committee member: ACM Multimedia Systems Conference - [MMSys]
• Committee member: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo - [ICME]
• Committee member: International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience - [QoMEX]
• Committee member: International Workshop on Network and OS Support for Digital Audio/Video -[NOSSDAV]
• Committee member: ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television and Online Video - [ACM TVX]
• Committee member: International Workshop on Human-Centered Event Understanding for Multimedia -[HuEvent]
• Committee member: ACM Creativity and Cognition - [ACM C&C]
• Chair: ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television and Online Video - [ACM TVX]
• Editor: Journal: International Journal on Multimedia Tools and Applications - [MTA]
• Editor: ACM Computers and Entertainment
• Editor: ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications-¬‐[TOMCCAP]
• Editor: Journal: ACM Computers and Entertainment
• Editor: Journal: Multimedia Tools and Applications - [MTA]
• Editor: Journal: ACM SIGMultimedia Records
• Editor: Journal: ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications- [TOMCCAP

Awards

• 2nd Best Paper Award (with J.W. Kleinrouweler and B. Meixner) (2017)
• Best Paper - on 3D Technology in Multimedia (with Rufael Mekuria and D.C.A.Bulterman) ACM Multimedia Systems Conference, 2013 (2013)
• Best Paper - (with C. Wang International Workshop on Interactive Content Consumption, 2013 (2013)
• Best Paper on Multimedia (with R.L. Guimaraes and D.C.A. Bulterman) WebMedia, 2013 (2013)
• Beste paper New Comer Candidate - With V. Zsombori, M. Frantzis, R.L. Guimaraes, M.F. Ursu, P. Cesar, I. Kegel, R. Craigie, and D.C.A. Bulterman, (ACM HT 2011 (2011)
• EuroITV 2008 - Best paper (with D. C. A. Bulterman and A. J. Jansen) (2008)
• ACM international conference on multimedia, October - Best paper in track award (with D. C. A. Bulterman and A. J. Jansen) (2008)