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
Experimental theatre show performed in two venues simultaneously
On Tuesday 9 September, CWI multimedia researchers will contribute to a unique theatre performance. Miracle Theatre from Falmouth (UK) will perform a single play of Shakespeare’s The Tempest split between two theatres, each with their own audience.
Vconect project streams concert to remote audiences (video)
Together with partners of the Vconect project, researchers at CWI demonstrated how group video communications can be used to make remote audiences experience a performance as though they are actually present.
Theatre play with actors in two locations
Together with partners of the Vconect project, researchers at CWI demonstrated how group video communications can be used to enable a theatre play performed between two different locations, and experienced live by a remote audience over super-fast broadband.
CWI develops tool for creation of personal video stories
Researchers at CWI have developed software that can automatically create a personalized video story by re-mixing material captured by multiple people at an event. The project, called MyVideos, enables users to share stories from small-scale events with friends and relatives that might not have been there. Researcher Rodrigo Laiola Guimarães will defend his thesis ‘Socially-Aware Multimedia Authoring’ on 28 January 2014 at the VU University Amsterdam.
Events
PhD Defence Rufael Mekuria (DIS)
- 2017-01-23T12:45:00+01:00
- 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
- Kees Blom
- Ronja Brettschneider
- Sergio Cabrero
- Pablo Santiago César Garcia
- Simon Gunkel
- Ivan Herman
- Jack Jansen
- Jan Willem Kleinrouweler
- Fons Kuijk
- Jie Li
- Britta Meixner
- Rufael Mekuria
- Mario Montagud
- Steven Pemberton
- Judith Redi
- Thomas Roggla
- Marwin Schmitt
- Ernestasia Siahaan
- Shishir Subramanyam
- Chen Wang
Publications
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Röggla, T, Cabrero Barros, S, Katsouris, D, Zheng, Z, Gill, A.S, Jansen, A.J, … Shamma, D.A. (2017). The club of the future: Participatory clubbing experiences. In Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings (pp. 389–392). doi:10.1145/3027063.3052967
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Krishna, R, Zhu, Y, Groth, O, Johnson, J, Hata, K, Kravitz, J, … Fei-Fei, L. (2017). Visual Genome: Connecting Language and Vision Using Crowdsourced Dense Image Annotations. International Journal of Computer Vision, 1–42. doi:10.1007/s11263-016-0981-7
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Geelhoed, E, Singh-Barmi, K., Biscoe, I, Cesar Garcia, P.S, Jansen, A.J, Wang, C, & Kaiser, R. (2017). Co-present and remote audience experiences: intensity and cohesion. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 76(4), 5573–5606. doi:10.1007/s11042-016-3879-z
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Herman, I. (2017, January). "Publishing@W3C", EPUB Summit, Brussels, Belgium.
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Mekuria, R.N, & Bivolarsky, L. (2016). Overview of the MPEG Activity on Point Cloud Compression. In Data Compression Conference Proceedings. doi:10.1109/DCC.2016.91
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Siahaan, E, Hanjalic, A, & Redi, J.A. (2016). Augmenting blind image quality assessment using image semantics. In IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (IEEE ISM) (pp. 307–312). doi:10.1109/ISM.2016.0067
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生物传感将成为人们生活的一部分. (2016). 生物传感将成为人们生活的一部分.
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会干货满满成果斐然 人工智能的未来在产业对接. (2016). 会干货满满成果斐然 人工智能的未来在产业对接.
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BYBORRE & Red Bull explore the future of clubbing. (2016). BYBORRE & Red Bull explore the future of clubbing.
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Mekuria, R.N, & Cesar Garcia, P.S. (2016). MP3DG-PCC, open source software framework for implementation and evaluation of point cloud compression. In Proceedings of the international conference on Multimedia (pp. 1222–1226). doi:10.1145/2964284.2973806
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