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 contributes to trial new broadcasting system FA Cup Final at Wembley
H2020 EU-funded project 2-IMMERSE, of which CWI’s Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group is a member, tested their prototype end-to-end live production system for object-based broadcasting at the FA- cup final at Wembley.
BEST PAPER AWARD FOR FRANCESCA DE SIMONE AT ACM MMSys 2018
On 14 June Francesca De Simone of CWI’s DIS group has been awarded with the Best Paper Award at the the ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys 2018).
Demo Prize for Steven Pemberton at 2018 Markup UK conference
Steven Pemberton (CWI) won a demo prize during the 2018 Markup UK conference in London. Pemberton, who is the co-designer of web technology and W3C standard XForms, showed that XForms can reduce the production time and costs of an application by a factor of ten.
Joint industrial PhD program with Xinhuanet
CWI has launched a joint industrial PhD program with Xinhuanet in the research area of Social Internet of Things (IoT), smart textiles, and physiological computing. Xinhuanet Co. Ltd. is a key website in China with global influence, sponsored by Xinhua News Agency, the Chinese national news agency.
Members
Associated Members
Publications
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Pemberton, S. (2018). An Introduction to XForms.
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Matviienko, A, Feld, Y, El Ali, A, Heuten, W, & Boll, S.C.J. (2018). Designing Metaphor-Based Ambient Tangible Artifacts to Support Workspace Awareness. I-Com, 17(3), 219–236.
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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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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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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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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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Gunkel, S, Stokking, H.M, Prins, M, Niamut, O, Siahaan, E, & Cesar Garcia, P.S. (2018). Experiencing virtual reality together: Social VR use case study. In TVX 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video (pp. 233–238). doi:10.1145/3210825.3213566
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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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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)
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WEAR SUSTAIN (WEAR)
Related partners
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Byborre
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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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IMEC
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TNO
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VIACCESS