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Best paper award for paper co-authored by Francesca de Simone at EUSIPCO 2018
The paper "Rate Distortion Optimized Graph Partitioning for Omnidirectional Image Coding" authored by Mira Rizkallah (INRIA), Francesca De Simone (CWI), Thomas Maugey (INRIA), Christine Guillemot (INRIA), and Pascal Frossard (EPFL), has been awarded with the Best Student Paper Award at EUSIPCO 2018.
Francesca de Simone awarded with UK Royal Society International Exchanges 2018 grant
Francesca de Simone of CWI's DIS group has been awarded with an INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES 2018 GRANT bij the UK Royal Society together with Laura Toni (UCL).
Distributed and Interactive Systems group at IBC 2018
CWI’s Distributed and Interactive Systems group will be present at IBC 2018, from 14th to 18th of September at RAI Amsterdam, showcasing their research. The International Broadcasting Convention is the world's most influential media, entertainment and technology show.
Jie Li awarded with Best Paper Award at ACM TVX 2018
On 27 June, Jie Li of CWI’s Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group has been awarded with the Best Paper Award at ACM TVX 2018, the ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television and Online Video.
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.
Monitoring the Engagement of Groups with Sensors
The PhD thesis of CWI PhD student Chen Wang of the Distributed and Interactive (DIS) group reports on research to design a GSR system that can support and enhance actors’ awareness of remote audiences in a distributed theatrical environment.
MediaSync: Handbook on Multimedia Synchronization published
Recently, "MediaSync: Handbook on Multimedia Synchronization" edited by DIS members Pablo Cesar and Jack Jansen has been published by Springer.
DIS at CHI 2018
The Distributed and Interactive Systems group from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) will be present at CHI 2018 showcasing their research on a case-study of developing a multi-sensory clubbing experience during Amsterdam Dance Event 2016, designing preproduction tools for multiscreen TV viewing, and classifying news media sympathy on Twitter after crisis events.
KIEM funding for developing a smart urban jacket
CWI's DIS group led by Pablo Cesar has been awarded KIEM funding by NWO Humanities. The funding will go to "Project Cairo: an intelligent soft-robotic jacket". DIS will work on this project together with two partners: Borre Akkersdijk (Byborre) and Bas Overvelde (Amolf).
DIS contributes to MPEG’s work on Point Cloud Compression
The Distributed and Interactive Systems group has been a core contributor to the effort of Moving Picture Experts Group on 3D point cloud compression technologies. This effort aims at providing efficient representation of static objects and scenes, as well as dynamic objects and real-time acquisition environments. It has resulted in a call for proposals from MPEG.
DIS researchers receive Excellence in DASH Award at MMSys 2017
Jan Willem Kleinrouweler of CWI’s Distributed and Interactive Systems group has received the Excellence in DASH Award at ACM Multimedia Systems 2017 in Taipei, Taiwan.
Steven Pemberton wins 2017 Best Demo Award at XML London
On 10 June 2017 Steven Pemberton won by acclamation the Demo Award at the XML London conference for his demonstration 'XForms Game'. XForms is a web technology and W3C standard, co-designed by Pemberton, originally intended for handling forms on the web. It now has been generalized to allow the description of more general applications.
Best Doctoral Consortium Paper Award for Jan Willem Kleinrouweler at TVX 2017
On 14 June Jan Willem Kleinrouweler of CWI’s DIS group has been awarded with the Best Paper Award at the the ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television and Online Video (TVX 2017) . He received the award for his paper “Enhancing Over-the-Top Video Streaming Quality with DASH Assisting Network Elements”.
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.
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.
Best Paper Award for DIS researchers at PhyCS 2016
CWI researchers Chen Wang, Xintong Zhu, Thomas Roggla, and Pablo Cesar of CWI's Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group were awarded a prestigious Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems (PhyCS 2016).
Dick Bulterman appointed CWI Fellow
Prof. Dick Bulterman has been appointed CWI Fellow per 1 July 2016. This distinction is given to prominent researchers at CWI for their contribution to CWI's research and administration. Bulterman is member of the Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group at CWI, which he headed from 2002 to 2014.
Best Paper Award for CWI researchers at ACM MMsys 2016
CWI Congratulates W3C with Emmy® Award for Timed Text
W3C received a 2016 Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for its work on the Timed Text Mark-up Language standard that makes video content more accessible with text captioning and subtitles.
Unique experiment during 'War Horse' play in Shanghai
The National Theatre of China, Chinese news agency Xinhuanet and CWI performed a unique sensor experiment during a series of theater performances of 'War Horse' in Shanghai. During the experiments, volunteers were equipped with bio-sensors which recorded the body response data throughout the performance.
Wearing Sense: smart fashion measures user responses during CWI in Bedrijf event
Wearable technology is becoming more integrated into everyday life. By embedding sensors in textiles, fashion that senses the wearer reactions can be produced.