Informatics Europe's April webinar rescheduled
Imagine attending this webinar remotely but this time with a true feeling of "being here together" - would that be possible? Join Prof. Dr. Pablo Cesar at our webinar which will be rescheduled to June!
Abstract: With Social Virtual Reality emerging as a new medium where users can remotely experience immersive content with others, the vision of a true feeling of 'being there together' has become a realistic goal. This keynote will provide an overview about the challenges to achieve such a goal, based on results from practical case studies like the VR-Together and MediaScape XR projects. We will discuss about different technologies, like point clouds, that can be used as the format for representing highly-realistic digital humans, and about metrics and protocols for quantifying the quality of experience. The final intention of the talk is to shed some light on social VR, as a new group of virtual reality experiences based on social photorealistic immersive content and to discuss about the challenges regarding production, technology, and user-centric processes.
About the speaker: Prof. Dr. Pablo Cesar leads the Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group at CWI and is Professor at TU Delft. His research focuses on measuring and evaluating the way users interact and communicate with each other using a wide range of decentralised digital systems. Cesar’s scientific work has been recognised worldwide with several best paper awards at top venues. He is as well the recipient of the Netherlands Prize for ICT Research (2020) because of his work on human-centered multimedia systems. Cesar has (co-)directed 14 externally funded research projects. His mission is to bring core human-computer interaction methodologies to computer science research. His firm conviction is that for a humane future and for solving tomorrow’s scientific challenges, an interdisciplinary research approach is required, so he initiates projects where computer scientists explore problems together with other professionals (artists, educators...) Cesar is IEEE Senior and ACM Distinguished member. He is member of the editorial board of, among others, IEEE Multimedia and ACM Transactions on Multimedia, and he has given tutorials about multimedia systems in prestigious conferences such as ACM Multimedia, CHI, and the WWW conference. He acted as an invited expert at the European Commission's Future Media Internet Architecture Think Tank and participates in standardization activities at MPEG (point-cloud compression) and ITU (QoE for multi-party tele-meetings and immersive media).
Webpage: https://www.pablocesar.me
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pablocesar2661
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pabloc2/
Registration for this webinar will be re-open soon. For those who have registered, your registration will still be valid and we will inform you again once the new webinar date is confirmed.
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