ATTENTION: This is a web archive! The IMS Group was split up in 2018 and does not exist anymore. Recent work of former members can be found at the VR/AR Group and the Computer Vision Group.

Interactive Media Systems, TU Wien

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Scientific publications, talks, and theses. Click a title or “Details” link to learn
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Journals

StARboard & TrACTOr: Actuated Tangibles in an Educational TAR Application We explore the potential of direct haptic interaction in a novel approach to Tangible Augmented Reality in an educational context. Employing our… E. Vonach, C. Schindler, H. Kaufmann Details
Local projections for high-dimensional outlier detection A novel approach for outlier detection is proposed, called local projections, which is based on concepts of the Local Outlier Factor (LOF) (Breunig… T. Ortner, P. Filzmoser, M. Rohm, S. Brodinova, C. Breiteneder Details
Immersive training of first responder squad leaders in untethered virtual reality We present the VROnSite platform that supports immersive training of first responder units´ on-site squad leaders. Our training platform is fully… A. Mossel, C. Schönauer, M. Froeschl, A. Peer, J. Göllner, H. Kaufmann Details
Robust and sparse k-means clustering for high-dimensional data S. Brodinova, P. Filzmoser, T. Ortner, C. Breiteneder, M. Rohm: "Robust and sparse k-means clustering for high-dimensional data"; Advances in Data… S. Brodinova, P. Filzmoser, T. Ortner, C. Breiteneder, M. Rohm Details

Conferences

mHealthINX - The mental Health experience concept M. Sili, M. Bachler, E. Broneder, R. Luigies, N. Hungerländer: "mHealthINX - The mental Health experience concept"; accepted as talk for: 4th… M. Sili, M. Bachler, E. Broneder, R. Luigies, N. Hungerländer Details
Teaching Digital Fabrication to Early Intervention Specialists for Designing Their Own Tools We taught basic principles of digital fabrication to four early intervention therapists that were specialized in the training of children with… F. Güldenpfennig, P. Fikar, R. Ganhör Details
Towards Eye-Friendly VR: How Bright Should It Be? Visual information plays an important part in the perception of the world around us. Recently, head-mounted displays (HMD) came to the consumer… K. Vasylevska, H. Yoo, T. Akhavan, H. Kaufmann Details
Semi-automatic post-processing of multi-view 2D-plus-depth video We propose a post-processing framework based on multiview interactive video segmentation for correcting 2D-plus-depth video footage. The suggested… B. Sespede, F. Seitner, M. Gelautz Details
An End-to-end System for Real-Time Point Cloud Visualization The growing availability of RGB-D data, as delivered by current depth sensing devices, forms the basis for a variety of mixed reality (MR)… H. Hofer, F. Seitner, M. Gelautz Details
SLAMANTIC - Leveraging Semantics to Improve VSLAM in Dynamic Environments In this paper, we tackle the challenge for VSLAM of handling nonstatic environments. We propose to include semantic information obtained by deep… M. Schörghuber, D. Steininger, Y. Carbon, M. Gelautz Details
Evaluation Study on Semantic Object Labelling in Street Scenes We present a processing pipeline for semantic scene labelling that was developed in view of autonomous driving applications. Our study focuses on two… A. Wittmann, M. Gelautz, F. Seitner Details
An End-to-end System for Real-Time Point Cloud Visualization The growing availability of RGB-D data, as delivered by current depth sensing devices, forms the basis for a variety of mixed reality (MR)… H. Hofer, F. Seitner, M. Gelautz Details
Co-Presence and Proxemics in Shared Walkable Virtual Environments with Mixed Colocation The purpose of the experiment presented in this paper is to investigate co-presence and locomotory patterns in a walkable shared virtual environment.… I. Podkosova, H. Kaufmann Details
How Current Optical Music Recognition Systems Are Becoming Useful for Digital Libraries Optical Music Recognition (OMR) promises to make large collections of sheet music searchable by their musical content. It would open up novel ways of… J. Hajič, M. Kolárová, A. Pacha, J. Calvo-Zaragoza Details
Optical Music Recognition in Mensural Notation with Region-Based Convolutional Neural Networks In this work, we present an approach for the task of optical music recognition (OMR) using deep neural networks. Our intention is to simultaneously… A. Pacha, J. Calvo-Zaragoza Details
Advancing OMR as a Community: Best Practices for Reproducible Research Optical Music Recognition has been under investigation for over 60 years but remains an unsolved problem, because research happens distributedly,… A. Pacha Details

Talks

Robust and sparse k-means clustering in high dimension We introduce a robust k-means-based clustering method for high-dimensional data where not only outliers but also a large number of noise variables… P. Filzmoser, S. Brodinova, T. Ortner, C. Breiteneder, M. Rohm Details
Robust k-means-based clustering for high-dimensional data We introduce a robust k-means-based clustering method for high-dimensional data where not only outliers but also a large number of noise variables… P. Filzmoser, S. Brodinova, T. Ortner, C. Breiteneder, M. Rohm Details
Visual Computing in Autonomous Driving and Human-Robot Interaction M. Gelautz Details
Digital Observation of Human Motion, Expression, and Intention Die Entwicklung von Algorithmen und Softwarewerkzeugen zur Beobachtung und automatischen Interpretation von menschlicher Bewegung durch Videoanalyse… M. Gelautz Details
Computer Vision Trends - Autonomous Driving and Human-Robot Interaction In recent years, computer vision research has been strongly influenced by latest developments in the fields of artificial intelligence and deep… M. Gelautz Details
Body Language in Human‐Robot Interaction D. Stoeva: "Body Language in Human‐Robot Interaction"; Poster: Summer School TrustRobots 2019, Wien; 15.09.2019 - 20.09.2019. D. Stoeva Details
Camera-Based In-Cabin Monitoring - Applications and Business Cases M. Gelautz: "Camera-Based In-Cabin Monitoring - Applications and Business Cases"; Vortrag: Forum Automatisierte Mobilität, Wien (eingeladen);… M. Gelautz Details
Body Language in Human‐Robot Interaction M. Gelautz, D. Stoeva, D. Schörkhuber Details
An Evaluation Framework for Dynamic Scene Acquisitions Using Multiple Stereo Cameras C. Kapeller, B. Sespede, M. Nezveda, M. Labschütz, S. Flöry, F. Seitner, M. Gelautz: "An Evaluation Framework for Dynamic Scene Acquisitions Using… C. Kapeller, B. Sespede, M. Nezveda, M. Labschütz, S. Flöry, F. Seitner, M. Gelautz Details
A Post-processing Tool for Multi-view 2D-plus-depth Video B. Sespede, F. Seitner, M. Gelautz: "A Post-processing Tool for Multi-view 2D-plus-depth Video"; Poster: The 15th ACM SIGGRAPH European Conference on… B. Sespede, F. Seitner, M. Gelautz Details
Camera-based pose estimation in dynamic environments - concept and status This PhD tackles the challenge of camera-based methods for navigation and environmental sensing in dynamic environments. The goal is to design a… M. Schörghuber, M. Humenberger, M. Gelautz Details

Theses

Mapping of Realism in Rendering onto Perception of Presence in Augmented Reality Augmented Reality (AR) is about seamless integration of virtual computer-generated objects into the real-world view. Ideally, virtual objects should… D. Schüller-Reichl Details
Semantic Labelling of Objects in Street Scenes An automatic and robust semantic interpretation of street scenes is required in order to improve driving assistance systems and to reach fully… A. Wittmann Details
Walkable Multi-User VR: Effects of Physical and Virtual Colocation The research presented in this dissertation focuses on multi-user VR, where multiple immersed users navigate the virtual world by physically walking… I. Podkosova Details