@conference {cKochale13, title = {Gesture controlled interactive rendering in a panoramic scene}, booktitle = {European Interactive TV Conference, EuroITV}, year = {2013}, month = {06/2013}, address = {Como, Italy}, url = {http://upcommons.upc.edu/e-prints/handle/2117/20470}, author = {Kochale, A. and Ruiz-Hidalgo, J. and M. Borsum} } @conference {cZoric13, title = {Gesture Interaction with Rich TV Content in the Social Setting}, booktitle = {Exploring and Enhancing the User Experience for Television, Workshop of ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI{\textquoteright}13}, year = {2013}, month = {04/2013}, address = {Paris, France}, abstract = {

The appearance of new immersive TV content has increased the interactive possibilities presented to the viewers. Increased interactivity is seen as a valuable feature in viewing richer television content, but new functionalities are limited by what can be done naturally and intuitively using available devices like remote controls. Therefore, new interaction techniques, such as visual gestures control systems, have appeared aiming to enhance the viewers{\textquoteright} viewing experience. In this work we begin uncovering the potential and challenges of gesture interaction with ultra high definition video for people watching TV together. As a first step we have done a study with a group of people interacting with such content using a gesture-based system in the home environment.

}, url = {http://livingroomexperience.wikispaces.com/}, author = {Zoric, Goranka and Engstr{\"o}m, Arvid and Barkhuus, Louise and Ruiz-Hidalgo, J. and Kochale, A.} } @conference {cNiamut13, title = {Towards A Format-agnostic Approach for Production, Delivery and Rendering of Immersive Media}, booktitle = {ACM Multimedia Systems}, year = {2013}, month = {3/2013}, address = {Oslo, Norway}, abstract = {

The media industry is currently being pulled in the often-opposing directions of increased realism (high resolution, stereoscopic, large screen) and personalization (selection and control of content, availability on many devices). We investigate the feasibility of an end-to-end format-agnostic approach to support both these trends. In this paper, different aspects of a format- agnostic capture, production, delivery and rendering system are discussed. At the capture stage, the concept of layered scene representation is introduced, including panoramic video and 3D audio capture. At the analysis stage, a virtual director component is discussed that allows for automatic execution of cinematographic principles, using feature tracking and saliency detection. At the delivery stage, resolution-independent audiovisual transport mechanisms for both managed and unmanaged networks are treated. In the rendering stage, a rendering process that includes the manipulation of audiovisual content to match the connected display and loudspeaker properties is introduced. Different parts of the complete system are revisited demonstrating the requirements and the potential of this advanced concept.

}, author = {Niamut, O. and Kaiser, R. and Kienast, G. and Kochale, A. and Spille, J. and Schreer, O. and Ruiz-Hidalgo, J. and Macq, J. and Shirley, B.} } @conference {cSalvador12, title = {Variational Reconstruction and Restoration for Video Super-Resolution}, booktitle = {International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)}, year = {2012}, month = {11-2012}, address = {Tsukuba, Japan}, abstract = {

This paper presents a variational framework for obtaining super-resolved video-sequences, based on the observation that reconstruction-based Super-Resolution (SR) algorithms are limited by two factors: registration exactitude and Point Spread Function (PSF) estimation accuracy.\ To minimize the impact of the first limiting factor, a small-scale linear inpainting algorithm is proposed to provide smooth SR video frames.\ To improve the second limiting factor, a fast PSF local estimation and total variation-based denoising is proposed. Experimental results reflect the improvements provided by the proposed method when compared to classic SR approaches.

}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=\&arnumber=6460315\&contentType=Conference+Publications\&searchField\%3DSearch_All\%26queryText\%3Dvariational+reconstruction}, author = {Salvador, J. and Rivero, D. and Kochale, A. and Ruiz-Hidalgo, J.} } @conference {cNiamut11, title = {Advanced visual rendering, gesture-based interaction and distributed delivery for immersive and interactive media services}, booktitle = {International Broadcasting Convention 2011}, year = {2011}, pages = {1{\textendash}8}, isbn = {0780388747}, url = {http://www.ibc.org/page.cfm/Action=Visitor/VisitorID=2851/PageOption=Seminar_1/libEntryID=15}, author = {Niamut, O. and Kochale, A. and Ruiz-Hidalgo, J. and Macq, J. and Kienast, G.} } @conference {cSchreer11, title = {Format-agnostic approach for production, delivery and rendering of immersive media}, booktitle = {Networked and Electronic Media Summit}, year = {2011}, pages = {{\textendash}}, isbn = {SN}, url = {http://nem-summit.eu/program/}, author = {Schreer, O. and Thomas, G. and Niamut, O. and Macq, J. and Kochale, A. and Batke, J. and Ruiz-Hidalgo, J. and Oldfield, R. and Shirley, B. and Thallinger, G.} }