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SUMMARY:Research at the NUS Interactive Multimedia Lab - Stefan Winkler\, 
 National University of Singapore
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CONTACT:Wenjun Hu
DESCRIPTION:Our research in Interactive & Digital Media is mainly in the a
 reas of vision-based human-computer interfaces\, human-centric image analy
 sis\, multimedia processing and perception modeling. Some of the questions
  we are investigating are: How can user interfaces be made more intuitive 
 through the visual analysis of user movements\, gestures and intentions? H
 ow can better understanding and interpretation of the user and his actions
  enhance entertainment\, education and security applications? How can obje
 cts from the real world be seamlessly combined with related visual informa
 tion and presented to the user in the form of an augmented reality? How we
 ll is this augmented/mixed reality perceived by the user\, and which aspec
 ts is he/she most sensitive to? How can multimedia information be presente
 d\, stored\, and managed in the optimal user-centric way? \n\nIn this talk
 \, I will present a number of examples of ongoing research at our lab\, es
 pecially in the areas of 3D vision and mobile interaction.\n\n\nAbout the 
 speaker:\n\nStefan Winkler received the M.Sc. degree in electrical enginee
 ring from the University of Technology in Vienna\, Austria\, in 1996\, and
  the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institu
 te of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne in 2000 for research on video quality 
 measurement. He also spent one year at the University of Illinois at Urban
 a-Champaign as a Fulbright student.\n\nDr. Winkler has worked as a Post-do
 ctoral Fellow at EPFL and Assistant Professor at the University of Lausann
 e. He is currently Assistant Professor at the National University of Singa
 pore (NUS)\, where he heads the Interactive Multimedia Lab in the Departme
 nt of Electrical and Computer Engineering.  He is also Chief Scientist of 
 Genista Corporation\, a company developing perceptual quality metrics for 
 multimedia applications\, which he co-founded in 2001. He has published mo
 re than 40 papers and is the author of a book on digital video quality.
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 2\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Builiding
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