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
Tenure track position in Multimedia Systems and Human-Computer Interaction
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) invites excellent postdoctoral researchers to apply for a Tenure track position in Multimedia Systems and Human-Computer Interaction. The Distributed and Interactive Systems research group focuses on modeling and controlling complex collections of media objects (including real-time media and sensor data) that are interactive and distributed in time and space.
News
TONG XUE, JIE LI AND PABLO CESAR (DIS) AWARDED BEST DEMO AWARD AT ACM IMX 2020
On June 19th 2020, the demo paper “A Social VR Clinic for Knee Arthritis Patients with Haptics” was awarded the Best Demo Award at the ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experience (ACM IMX) 2020.
Jack Jansen (DIS) Awarded Best Demo Award at ACM MMsys 2020
On June 11th 2020 Jack Jansen of CWI's DIS group won the Best Demo paper Award at the ACM MMSys 2020 conference.
CWI’s DIS Group Organized the ACM CHI2020 Social VR Workshop on VR Platform during COVID-19
Jie Li and Pablo Cesar, from the Distributed Interactive Systems group (DIS) at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), have successfully organized the ACM CHI2020 Social VR Workshop on a social VR platform called Mozilla Hubs.
Surjya Ghosh selected to participate in the 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum
Surjya Ghosh of CWI's DIS group has been selected to participate in the 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF), to be held from 19 to 24 September 2021, in Heidelberg, Germany.
Current events
PhD Defence Jan Willem Martin Kleinrouweler - DIS
- 2020-10-28T15:45:00+01:00
- 2020-10-28T17:45:00+01:00
PhD Defence Jan Willem Martin Kleinrouweler - DIS
Start: 2020-10-28 15:45:00+01:00 End: 2020-10-28 17:45:00+01:00
Everyone is welcome to attend the public defence of Jan Willem Martin Kleinrouweler of his thesis 'Modeling and Optimization of Network Assisted Video Streaming'.
Promotor: Prof. dr. D.C.A. Bulterman (VU)
Co-promotor: Prof. dr. P.S. Cesar Garcia (TU Delft)
Co-promotor: Prof. dr. R.D. van der Mei (VU)
The defence will take place at the aula of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Members
Associated Members
Publications
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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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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
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Ghosh, S, Hiware, K, Ganguly, N, Mitra, B, & De, P. (2019). Emotion detection from touch interactions during text entry on smartphones. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 130, 47–57. doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2019.04.005
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De Simone, F, Azevedo, R, Kim, S, & Frossard, P. (2019). Graph-Based Detection of Seams In 360-Degree Images. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing.
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El Ali, A, Ashby, L.M, Webb, A.M, Zwitser, R, & César Garcia, P.S. (2019). Uncovering perceived identification accuracy of in-vehicle biometric sensing. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications: Adjunct Proceedings (pp. 327–334). doi:10.1145/3349263.3351506
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Schmitt, M.R. (2019, September 10). Personal quality of experience: accurately modelling quality of experience for multi-party desktop video-conferencing based on systems, context and user factors.
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)
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