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 and Twitter account
Our research group focuses on facilitating and improving the way people access media and communicate with others and with the environment. We address key problems for society and science, resulting from the dense connectivity of content, people, and devices. We use recognised scientific methods, following a full-stack, experimental, and human-centered approach.
We base our results on realistic testing grounds and data sets, and embrace areas such as wearable technology and smart textiles, immersive media, and languages and infrastructures. Distributed and Interactive Systems is an outward-looking research group, and we enjoy a number of fruitful partnerships with companies and organisations in the areas of creative industries and smart cities.
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.
News
DIS contributes to MPEG’s work on Point Cloud Compression
The Distributed and Interactive Systems group has been a core contributor to the effort of Moving Picture Experts Group on 3D point cloud compression technologies. This effort aims at providing efficient representation of static objects and scenes, as well as dynamic objects and real-time acquisition environments. It has resulted in a call for proposals from MPEG.
DIS researchers receive Excellence in DASH Award at MMSys 2017
Jan Willem Kleinrouweler of CWI’s Distributed and Interactive Systems group has received the Excellence in DASH Award at ACM Multimedia Systems 2017 in Taipei, Taiwan.
Steven Pemberton wins 2017 Best Demo Award at XML London
On 10 June 2017 Steven Pemberton won by acclamation the Demo Award at the XML London conference for his demonstration 'XForms Game'. XForms is a web technology and W3C standard, co-designed by Pemberton, originally intended for handling forms on the web. It now has been generalized to allow the description of more general applications.
Best Doctoral Consortium Paper Award for Jan Willem Kleinrouweler at TVX 2017
On 14 June Jan Willem Kleinrouweler of CWI’s DIS group has been awarded with the Best Paper Award at the the ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television and Online Video (TVX 2017) . He received the award for his paper “Enhancing Over-the-Top Video Streaming Quality with DASH Assisting Network Elements”.
Events
PhD Defence Rufael Mekuria (DIS)
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- 2017-01-23T15:00:00+01:00
PhD Defence Rufael Mekuria (DIS)
Start: 2017-01-23 12:45:00+01:00 End: 2017-01-23 15:00:00+01:00
Everyone is invited to attend the public defence of Rufael Mekuria, of his thesis 'Network Streaming and Compression for Mixed Reality Tele-Immersion'.
Promotor: Prof.dr. Dick Bulterman (CWI/VU)
Members of Distributed and Interactive Systems
Publications
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Kumar, V, Bakhshi, S, Kennedy, L, & Shamma, D.A. (2017). Adaptive city characteristics: How location familiarity changes what is regionally descriptive. In UMAP 2017 - Proceedings of the 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (pp. 131–139). doi:10.1145/3079628.3079665
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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
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Kleinrouweler, J.W.M, Meixner, B, & Cesar Garcia, P.S. (2017). Improving Video Quality in Crowded Networks Using a DANE. In Proceedings of the 27th Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (pp. 73–78). doi:10.1145/3083165.3083167
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Chen, K.-T, Cesar Garcia, P.S, & Hsu, C.-H. (2017). Foreword. Proceedings of the 8th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference, MMSys 2017.
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Cabrero Barros, S, Jansen, A.J, Röggla, T, Guerra-Gomez, J.A, Shamma, D.A, & Cesar Garcia, P.S. (2017). CWI-ADE2016 dataset: Sensing nightclubs through 40 million BLE packets. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference, MMSys 2017 (pp. 181–186). doi:10.1145/3083187.3083213
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Wang, C, Geelhoed, E, & Cesar Garcia, P.S. (2017). eTheatre: Connecting with the remote audiences. In ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (pp. 1–10). doi:10.1145/3080631.3080633
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Mekuria, R.N, Blom, C.L, & Cesar Garcia, P.S. (2017). Design, implementation and evaluation of a point cloud codec for Tele-Immersive Video. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 27(4), 828–842. doi: 10.1109/TCSVT.2016.2543039
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Kumar, V, Bakhshi, S, Kennedy, L, & Shamma, D.A. (2017). Modeling characteristics of location from user photos. In HUMANIZE 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Workshop on Theory-Informed User Modeling for Tailoring and Personalizing Interfaces, co-located with IUI 2017 (pp. 1–6). doi:10.1145/3039677.3039683
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Kleinrouweler, J.W.M, Cabrero Barros, S, van der Mei, R.D, & Cesar Garcia, P.S. (2017). A Markov model for evaluating resource sharing policies for DASH assisting network elements. In Proceedings of the 28th International Teletraffic Congress, ITC 2016 (pp. 112–120). doi:10.1109/ITC-28.2016.123
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van der Tweel, S. (2016, December 19). LiveAdapp: Live adaptive mobile video streaming during large scale events.
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
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Personalised Aftermovies en festivalbeleving
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2-IMMERSECreating and Delivering Shared and Personalised Multi-Screen Broadcast and Broadband Experiences
Partners
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British Telecom
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ChyronHego AB
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Illuminations (Television) Limited
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Institut fur Rundfunktechnik
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British Broadcasting Corporation
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Cisco International Limited
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Hogeschool van Amsterdam