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 researchers speak at Xinhuanet Forum
In November 2016 Pablo César and David A. Shamma spoke at the first Intelligent Valley Forum in Nanjing, China.
David A. Shamma named ACM Distinguished Member
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named CWI researcher David A. Shamma as one of the 45 Distinguished Members 2016 in the subcategory ‘distinguished engineers’.
Dick Bulterman new head of department Computer Science VU University
He succeeds Guus Schreiber, who will in December start as the new dean of the science faculties of VU University. Dick is endowed Professor of Distributed Multimedia Languages & Infrastructures at VU University and CWI fellow. He is appointed for a period of two years.
CWI & BYBORRE collaborate in unique Red Bull tech project at ADE
During Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) and textile studio BYBORRE explored the future of club culture at the exclusive Red Bull At Night Playrooms event.
Events
PhD Defence Rufael Mekuria (DIS)
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- 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