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
CWI DIS group in Red Bull doc 'This is the Future'
The CWI Distributed and Interactive Systems group cooperated in a revolutionary tech project called 'Red Bull Playrooms' during ADE 2016. Red Bull has now published a documentary that gives insight to the unique elements and the work of all partners including our DIS group regarding this project. In the documentary you will see our researchers in action, together with other contributors to the project.
CWI researcher contributes to new combination of W3C and IDPF in Digital Publishing
On 1 February W3C announced that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) will combine their organizations to set up a new roadmap for Digital Publishing. Ivan Herman, researcher at CWI, has played a seminal role in this combination.
CWI develops strategies for compression and transmission of reconstructed 3D data
Internet is used for communication via video conferencing, voice calls, chatting, photo sharing, online gaming and virtual reality. These technologies are changing our daily lives and the way we interact with each other. Highly realistic reconstructed 3D representations that combine real and synthetic contents in a virtual world will be part of this online interaction more and more.
CWI DIS researchers speak at Xinhuanet Forum
In November 2016 Pablo César and David A. Shamma spoke at the first Intelligent Valley Forum in Nanjing, China.
Members
Associated Members
Publications
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Li, J. (2019, January 23). Crowds inside out : understanding crowds from the perspective of individual crowd members' experiences.
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Matviienko, A, El Ali, A, Hilmer, C, Feld, Y, Heuten, W, & Boll, S.C.J. (2018). Designing metaphor-based ambient tangible artifacts to support workspace awareness. I-Com, 17(3), 219–235. doi:10.1515/icom-2018-0024
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Pemberton, S. (2018). An Introduction to XForms.
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Subramanyam, S. (Shishir), & Cesar Garcia, P.S. (2018). Enhancement layer inter frame coding for 3D dynamic point clouds. In 2018 IEEE Games, Entertainment, Media Conference, GEM 2018 (pp. 332–337). doi:10.1109/GEM.2018.8516534
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Chambel, T, De Simone, F, Kaiser, R, Ranasinghe, N, & Van Den Broeck, W. (2018). ALTMM 2018: ACM international workshop on multimedia alternate realities welcome. AltMM 2018 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Multimedia Alternate Realities, co-located with MM 2018.
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De Simone, F. (2018). Measuring user Quality of Experience in social VR systems. In AltMM 2018 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Multimedia Alternate Realities, co-located with MM 2018 (pp. 25–26). doi:10.1145/3268998.3277702
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Siahaan, E. (2018, October 16). Visual quality of experience : a metric driven perspective.
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Gruenefeld, U, El Ali, A, Boll, S.C.J, & Heuten, W. (2018). Beyond Halo and Wedge: Visualizing out-of-view objects on head-mounted virtual and augmented reality devices. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. doi:10.1145/3229434.3229438
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Wen Shieng, P.S, Jansen, A.J, & Pemberton, S. (2018). Fine-grained access control framework for Igor, a unified access solution to the Internet of Things. Procedia Computer Science, 385–392. doi:10.1016/j.procs.2018.07.194
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Li, J, Röggla, T, Glancy, M, Jansen, A.J, & Cesar Garcia, P.S. (2018). A new production platform for authoring object-based multiscreen TV viewing experiences. In TVX 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video (pp. 115–126). doi:10.1145/3210825.3210834
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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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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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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ENTROPY ZERO SL
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EL FARO DEL FUTURO SL
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TNO
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VIACCESS