Description
Leader of the group Distributed and Interactive Systems: Pablo Santiago César Garcia.
For more information, visit our webpage: www.dis.cwi.nl
YouTube channel, Twitter account, Vimeo, GitHub
Our research group focuses on facilitating and improving the way people use interactive systems and how people communicate with each other. We combine data science with a strong human-centric, empirical approach to understand the experience of users. This enables us to design and develop next generation intelligent and empathic systems. We base our results on realistic testing grounds and data sets, and embrace areas such as ubiquitous computing, human-centered multimedia systems, and languages.
The group addresses key problems for society and science, following a multi-disciplinary approach. This results in a full-stack methodology that enables us to bridge socio-technical gaps in society and science by instrumenting the appropriate infrastructures and communication protocols using realistic testing grounds.
Distributed and Interactive Systems is an outward-looking research group, that enjoys a number of fruitful partnerships with companies and organizations in the areas of creative industries, smart cities, automotive industry and wellbeing. Our group transfers knowledge through scientific publications, standards bodies, open-source implementations and consultancy. We pride ourselves on pushing boundaries, leading the way for others to follow.
Vacancies
PhD position available on User-centered optimisation for immersive media
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) has a vacancy in the Distributed and Interactive Systems research group for a talented PhD student, on the subject of User-centered optimization for immersive multimedia systems
News
Pablo Cesar named ACM Distinguished Member
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), has named Pablo Cesar as one of the 64 Distinguished Members 2020. ACM distinguished members are recognized for their individual contributions to the field of computing.
IRENE VIOLA AWARDED NWO WISE GRANT
Distributed and Interactive System (DIS) tenure-track researcher Irene Viola has been awarded a NWO Women In Science Excel (WISE) grant. It will be used to fund a PhD position on the topic of User-centered optimization for immersive multimedia systems.
DIS group realized World’s First Volumetric Video Conference over a Public 5G Network
Together with their partners of VRTogether, CWI's DIS group showcased the world’s first live 3D video conference using point clouds, over a commercial 5G network at the VR days 2020.
Modeling and Optimization of Network Assisted Video Streaming
Jan Willem Kleinrouweler of CWI's DIS group, investigates how to optimise the quality of video streaming in his thesis.
Members
Associated Members
Publications
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Park, S. (Souneil), Oshan, T.M. (Taylor M.), El Ali, A, & Finamore, A. (Alessandro). (2021). Are we breaking bubbles as we move? Using a large sample to explore the relationship between urban mobility and segregation. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 86. doi:10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2020.101585
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Xue, X, El Ali, A, Ding, G, & César Garcia, P.S. (2020). Annotation tool for precise emotion ground truth label acquisition while watching 360 VR videos. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality.
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Pons, G, & Masip, D. (2020). Multitask, multilabel, and multidomain learning with convolutional networks for emotion recognition. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. doi:10.1109/TCYB.2020.3036935
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Kleinrouweler, J.W.M. (2020, October 28). Modeling and optimization of network assisted video streaming.
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Pemberton, S. (2020). On the design of the URL. In Proceedings of Declarative Amsterdam.
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Azevedo, R, Birkbeck, N, De Simone, F, Janatra, I, Adsumilli, B, & Frossard, P. (2020). Visual Distortions in 360-degree Videos. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2019.
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Pemberton, S. (2020). How Suite it is: Declarative XForms submission testing. In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference. doi:10.4242/BalisageVol25.Pemberton01
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Viola, I, Subramanyam, S, & César Garcia, P.S. (2020). A color-based objective quality metric for point cloud contents. In Twelfth International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (pp. 1–6). doi:10.1109/QoMEX48832.2020.9123089
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Li, J, Chen, G, de Ridder, H, & César Garcia, P.S. (2020). Designing a social VR clinic for medical consultations. In Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings. doi:10.1145/3334480.3382836
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Xue, X, Ghosh, S, Ding, G, El Ali, A, & César Garcia, P.S. (2020). Designing real-time, continuous emotion annotation techniques for 360° VR videos. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1–9). doi:10.1145/3334480.3382895
Software
MP3DG: development framework for point cloud compression algorithms
MP3DG is a software framework for the design, implementation and evaluation of point cloud compression algorithms. It has been developed in the Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group as an extension of the open Point Cloud Library (PCL).
Invisible XML: parsing any format into XML
Invisible XML is based on the idea that data in any parsable format can be treated as XML -- a format that is readable by machines as well as humans -- without the need for markup.
QoE Testbed: Performing quality studies on video-conferencing systems
The QoE Testbed is a set of tools for conducting Quality of Experience (QoE) studies for video-conferencing.
VideoLat: Measuring end-to-end delays in A/V systems
VideoLat is a toolset to measure the delays of audio-visual pipelines, such as teleconferencing systems.
Ambulant: An open media player for SMIL presentations
The Ambulant Open SMIL Player is an open-source media player with support for SMIL, a W3C XML standard to describe multimedia presentations.
Current projects with external funding
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ICT prijs Pablo Cesar Garcia
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MediaScape
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PPS Automotive
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Overeenkomst met Xinhua Network(deel 2): Cooperation of Industry Doctor (PPS Xinhua Network (deel 2))
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Opera co-creation for a social transformation (TRACTION)
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WISE subsidie Irene Viola
Related partners
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Xinhua Network
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Dublin City University
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Matarasso Francois Louis Andre
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Irish Opera Transformations Company Limited by Guarantee
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Fundacio del Teatre del LICEU
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Sociedade Artistica Musical dos Pousos
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Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
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Fundacion Centro de Tecnologias de Interaccion Visual Y Comunicaciones Vicomtech
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Virtual Reality Ireland Media Ltd