Pablo Cesar
ABSTRACT
Video communication is filtering into everyday use. Television is becoming more social, videoconferencing happens in the living room and beyond, and games are played with others remotely. The confluence of social networking, multimedia, and computer-mediated interaction is radically reshaping social communication, bringing new challenges and opportunities. One key challenge ahead is to move from current static solutions (e.g., "talking heads") to truly natural and immersive experiences. In this talk we provide an overview of the present state of the art through a few examples and discuss future possibilities and challenges. In particular, we will concentrate on two representative future application areas: performing arts and personal communication. In the former, we will explore how distributed stages can be linked, so artists at different locations can perform together at the same time the same song, act or play. In the latter, we will discuss our continuous efforts on the provision of 3D tele-immersion environments that offer a common virtual room for friends or family members to hangout. As we will show in this talk, current challenges associated to immersive media experience require multi-disciplinary solutions.
- P. Cesar, R. Kaiser, and M.F. Ursu. 2014. Toward Connected Shared Experiences. IEEE Computer, 47(7): 86--89. Google Scholar
Digital Library
- R. Mekuria, M. Sanna, E. Izquierdo, D.C.A. Bulterman, and P. Cesar. 2014. Enabling 3D Tele-Immersion with Live Reconstructed Mesh Geometry with Fast Mesh Compression and Linear Rateless Coding. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 16(7): 1809--1820.Google ScholarCross Ref
- M. Obrist, P. Cesar, D. Geerts, T. Bartindale, and E.F. Churchill. 2015. Online Video and Interactive TV Experiences - A Growing Research Field. ACM Interactions. Google ScholarDigital Library
- D. Williams, P. Cesar, M.F. Ursu, I. Kegel, J. Jansen, and E. Geelhoed. 2015. Experiments with Distributed Theatre. IEEE MultiMedia (IEEE MM), 22(3): 4--9.Google ScholarCross Ref
Index Terms
- Immersive Shared Experiences
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