Multimedia and Interactive Virtual Environments

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Multimedia and Interactive Virtual Environments
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• Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

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Multimedia

• Conventional media audio, video, text, image,
• Emerging types of media provide greater
  interaction.
• Wearable/enhanced interfaces
• Head-Mounted Displays
• 3D Goggles
• Gloves
• Haptics (e-touch)
• Others
• The high-level of immersion and interaction with
  these new devices and media can lead to
  unprecedented rich learning experience.

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Virtual Environments

• Sometimes called Virtual Reality, is an
  artificial environment created with computer
  hardware and software and presented to the user
  in such a way that it appears and feels like a
  real environment.
• A user uses special gloves, earphones, and
  goggles, all of which receive their input from
  the computer system.
• To date, virtual reality systems require
  extremely expensive hardware and software and are
  confined mostly to research labs.

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Virtual Reality vs. Real Virtuality
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Bring the Touch - HAPTICS

• Science of applying force feedback and tactile
  sensation to human interface with computers.

BMWs iDrive
CyberForce Tactile Feedback System
VirtualHand for MotionBuilder
CyberGrasp Exoskeleton
CyberGlove
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Ambient Intelligence Tele-Surveillance
Multimedia Web Services (sensory data
enterprise/Gov. knowledgeare stored on
distributed DB2 databases
Env. SensoryDB
imagesDB
AudioDB
VideoDB
Enterprise 1DB
Gov. NDB
SOAP
SOA-based Distributed Environment
SOAP
Multimodal User Interface
User Query Interface
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Azzedine Boukerche

• Research Interests
• Sensor Networks
• Wireless Multimedia
• QoS in Heterogeneous Wired and Wireless Networks
• Large-Scale Distributed Interactive Simulation
• DoD High Level Architecture (HLA/RTI)
• Parallel and Distributed Simulation
• Distributed and Collaborative Virtual
  Environments

ProfessorCanada Research Chair
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Eric Dubois

• Research Interests
• Digital Signal Processing
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• Data Compression 
• Image Processing and Communication 

Professor and Director
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Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

• Research Interests
• Haptic Audio Visual Environments (HAVE)
• Multimedia Communications
• Multimedia Tele-surveillance
• Knowledge Management
• Interactive Media and Games
• Collaborative Ambient Intelligence Systems and
  Applications (CAMISA)

Associate ProfessorDr.-Ing., P.Eng., SMIEEE
University Research Chair
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Nicolas D. Georganas

• Research Interests
• Ambient Multimedia Intelligence Systems (AMIS)
• Multimedia Communications
• Collaborative Virtual Environments
• Tele-Haptics
• Web Telecollaboration Applications
• Intelligent Internet Sensors and Appliances

Associate Vice-President, Research
(External) Dipl.-Ing., Ph.D.,  P.Eng., Dr.-Ing.
(h.c.),  OC, OOnt, FIEEE, FRSC, FCAE, FEIC,
Distinguished University Professor
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Robert Laganière

• Research Interests
• Image and Video processing
• Computer Vision
• Visual Surveillance
• Image-based Modeling
• View matching and 3D reconstruction

Ph.D., P.Eng. (OIQ) Associate Professor
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Jochen Lang

• Research Interests
• Computer graphics
• Image-based modelling
• Physics-based modelling Deformable modelling
• Computer vision
• 3D sensing and modelling
• Interactive acquisition
• Navigation systems
• Virtual environments
• Haptics

Ph.D. Assistant Professor
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WonSook Lee

• Research Interests
• Computer Graphics Animation
• Human modeling animation
• Face Recognition
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Virtual Reality in Health Care
• Medical application
• Music Analysis
• Computer
• Computer Vision
• Computer Game
• Graphics related eCommerce

Assistant Professor
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Emil Petriu

• Research Interests
• Intelligent Sensors
• Robot Sensing and Perception
• Interactive Virtual Environments 
• Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems
• Digital Integrated Circuit Testing 

Dr. Eng., P. Eng., F'IEEE, F'CAE, F'EIC
Professor University Research Chair
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Shervin Shirmohammadi

• Research Interests
• Massively Multiuser Online Gaming and Simulations
  
• Tele-Haptics and Telecollaboration systems
• Multimedia Adaptation and P2P Communication
  Protocols

Assistant ProfessorPh.D., P.Eng., SMIEEE
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Jiying Zhao

• Research Interests
• Image and video processing
• Multimedia communications

Associate ProfessorPh.D., P.Eng.
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