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 at CHI 2017
The Distributed and Interactive Systems group from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) will be present at CHI 2017 showcasing their research on social media and semantics, and smart textiles and environments. CWI contributes with a long and a WiP papers, an interactivity demo, and a workshop paper.
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.
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