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
No vacancies currently.
News
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.
CWI DIS Group's 'Lit Lace' project featured at Dutch Design Week
'Lit Lace', a collaborative project between the CWI's Distributed & Interactive Systems Group and the British Smart Fabric Designers Company Sara+Sarah is being featured in this year's Dutch Design Week.
Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) Group Awarded Best Paper Award at IEEE TCSVT 2020
Groundbreaking work that explores how new 3D media formats can be used for real-time remote collaboration, has been honoured with an 2020 IEEE CASS award.
Members
Associated Members
Publications
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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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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).
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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.
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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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Zhang, T, El Ali, A, Wang, C, Hanjalic, A, & César Garcia, P.S. (2020). RCEA: Real-time, Continuous Emotion Annotation for Collecting Precise Mobile Video Ground Truth Labels. In Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings. doi:10.1145/3313831.3376808
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Chatterjee, S, Bhowmik, A, Singh, A, Ghosh, S, Mitra, B, & Chakraborty, S. (2020). Detecting mobility context over smartphones using typing and smartphone engagement patterns. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications. doi:10.1109/PerCom45495.2020.9127359
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Striner, A, Azad, A, & Martens, C. (2019). A Spectrum of Audience Interactivity for entertainment domains. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (pp. 214–232). doi:10.1007/978-3-030-33894-7_23
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Webb, A.M, & César Garcia, P.S. (2019). Uncovering Seams in Distributed Play of Tabletop Role-Playing Games. In Extended Abstracts of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play.
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Zhang, T. (2019). Multi-modal fusion methods for robust emotion recognition using body-worn physiological sensors in mobile environments. In ICMI 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (pp. 463–467). doi:10.1145/3340555.3356089
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Zhang, T, El Ali, A, Wang, C, Zhu, X, & César Garcia, P.S. (2019). CorrFeat: Correlation-based feature extraction algorithm using skin conductance and pupil diameter for emotion recognition. In ICMI 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (pp. 404–408). doi:10.1145/3340555.3353716
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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An end-to-end system for the production and delivery of photorealistic social immersive virtual reality experiences (VRTogether)
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WISE subsidie Irene Viola
Related partners
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CERTH
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i2CAT
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Xinhua Network
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Artanim
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Dublin City University
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ENTROPY ZERO SL
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EL FARO DEL FUTURO SL
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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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TNO
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Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
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VIACCESS
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Fundacion Centro de Tecnologias de Interaccion Visual Y Comunicaciones Vicomtech
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Virtual Reality Ireland Media Ltd