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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Journals

Automatic Classification of Functional Gait Disorders This article proposes a comprehensive investigation of the automatic classification of functional gait disorders based solely on ground reaction… D. Slijepcevic, M. Zeppelzauer, A. Gorgas, C. Schwab, M. Schüller, A. Baca, C. Breiteneder, B. Horsak Details
Compressing VR: Fitting Large Virtual Environments within Limited Physical Space In practice, real-world physical workspaces and technological limitations restrict the free and unlimited exploration of an arbitrary large-scale… K. Vasylevska, H. Kaufmann Details
Clustering of imbalanced high-dimensional media data S. Brodinova, M. Zaharieva, P. Filzmoser, T. Ortner, C. Breiteneder: "Clustering of imbalanced high-dimensional media data"; Advances in Data… S. Brodinova, M. Zaharieva, P. Filzmoser, T. Ortner, C. Breiteneder Details
Unsupervised group feature selection for media classification The selection of an appropriate feature set is crucial for the efficient analysis of any media collection. In general, feature selection strongly… M. Zaharieva, C. Breiteneder, M. Hudec Details
Ground reaction force measurements for gait classification tasks: Effects of different PCA-based representations D. Slijepcevic, B. Horsak, C. Schwab, A. Raberger, M. Schüller, A. Baca, C. Breiteneder, M. Zeppelzauer: "Ground reaction force measurements for gait… D. Slijepcevic, B. Horsak, C. Schwab, A. Raberger, M. Schüller, A. Baca, C. Breiteneder, M. Zeppelzauer Details

Conferences

The Gestalt Interest Points Distance Feature for Compact and Accurate Image Description In this work, we present the novel Inter-GIP Distances (IGD) feature and its integration into the Gestalt Interest Points (GIP) image descriptor.… M. Hörhan, H. Eidenberger Details
Towards Self-Learning Optical Music Recognition Optical Music Recognition (OMR) is a branch of artificial intelligence that aims at automatically recognizing and understanding the content of music… A. Pacha, H. Eidenberger Details
Intelligent Film Assistant for Personalized Video Creation on Mobile Devices We describe the development of an intelligent film assistant system that supports the creation of professional video content on mobile devices such… D. Schörkhuber, F. Seitner, B. Salzbrunn, M. Gelautz, G. Braun Details
Teaching Virtual Reality with HTC Vive and Leap Motion Creating high quality virtual reality (VR) experience takes time and requires extensive practice. Although, multiple virtual and augmented reality… K. Vasylevska, I. Podkosova, H. Kaufmann Details
Towards a Universal Music Symbol Classifier Optical Music Recognition (OMR) aims to recognize and understand written music scores. With the help of Deep Learning, researchers were able to… A. Pacha, H. Eidenberger Details
Retrieving Diverse Social Images at MediaEval 2017: Challenges, Dataset and Evaluation This paper provides an overview of the Retrieving Diverse Social Images task that is organized as part of the MediaEval 2017 Benchmarking Initiative… M. Zaharieva, B. Ionescu, A. Ginsca, R. Santos, H. Müller Details
Robust and sparse clustering for high-dimensional data We introduce a robust and sparse clustering procedure for high-dimensional data. The robustness aspect is addressed by a weighting function… S. Brodinova, P. Filzmoser, T. Ortner, M. Zaharieva, C. Breiteneder Details
Improved Cooperative Stereo Matching for Dynamic Vision Sensors with Ground Truth Evaluation Event-based vision, as realized by bio-inspired Dynamic Vision Sensors (DVS), is gaining more and more popularity due to its advantages of high… E. Piatkowska, J. Kogler, A. Belbachir, M. Gelautz Details
Preventing Imminent Collisions between Co-Located Users in HMD-Based VR in Non-Shared Scenarios This paper presents two experiments set in a multi-user HMD-based VR system where users navigate by real walking in a large real and vir- tual area.… I. Podkosova, H. Kaufmann Details
Depth-guided Disocclusion Inpainting for Novel View Synthesis The generation of novel views is a crucial processing step in 3D content generation, since it gives control over the amount of depth impression on… T. Rittler, M. Nezveda, F. Seitner, M. Gelautz Details
Towards Efficient Spatial Compression in Self-Overlapping Virtual Environments Space available for any virtual reality experience is often strictly limited and abridges the virtual world to a size of a room. To extend the amount… K. Vasylevska, H. Kaufmann Details
VRRobot: Robot Actuated Props in an Infinite Virtual Environment We present the design and development of a fully immersive virtual reality (VR) system that can provide prop-based haptic feedback in an infinite… E. Vonach, C. Gatterer, H. Kaufmann Details
VROnSite: Towards Immersive Training of First Responder Squad Leaders in Untethered Virtual Reality We present the VROnSite platform that enables immersive training of first responder on-site squad leaders. Our training platform is fully immersive,… A. Mossel, M. Froeschl, C. Schönauer, A. Peer, J. Göllner, H. Kaufmann Details
Digital Playbook - A Teaching Tool for American Football A playbook in American Football can consist of hundreds of plays, and to learn each play and the corresponding assignments and responsibilities is a… M. Vorstandlechner, M. Gelautz, C. Putz Details
Discovering New Monte Carlo Noise Filters with Genetic Programming This paper presents a novel method for the discovery of new analytical filters suitable for filtering of noise in Monte Carlo rendering. Our method… P. Kán, M. Davletaliyev, H. Kaufmann Details
Automated Interior Design Using a Genetic Algorithm In this paper, we present a system that automatically populates indoor virtual scenes with furniture objects and optimizes their positions and… P. Kán, H. Kaufmann Details
Stereo reconstruction of sports scenes: algorithms, applications and challenges M. Gelautz, F. Seitner, C. Kapeller, N. Brosch: "Stereo reconstruction of sports scenes: algorithms, applications and challenges"; in: "International… M. Gelautz, F. Seitner, C. Kapeller, N. Brosch Details

Reports

Diversity and credibility for social Images and image retrieval Social media has established itself as an inextricable component of today´s society. Images make up a large proportion of items shared on social… I. Bogdan, M. Lupu, M. Rohm, A. Ginsca, H. Müller Details

Talks

Virtual Reality: Beyond Physical Frontiers The advent of technologically based approaches through mixed reality (MR) environments holds significant promise in its ability to form a new medium,… A. Mossel Details
Virtual Reality in Reality The advent of technologically based approaches through mixed reality (MR) environments holds significant promise in its ability to form a new medium,… A. Mossel Details
Finding groups in large and high-dimensional data using a k-means-based algorithm S. Brodinova, P. Filzmoser, T. Ortner, C. Breiteneder, M. Zaharieva: "Finding groups in large and high-dimensional data using a k-means-based… S. Brodinova, P. Filzmoser, T. Ortner, C. Breiteneder, M. Zaharieva Details
Grouping and outlier detection using robust sparse clustering S. Brodinova, P. Filzmoser, T. Ortner, M. Zaharieva, C. Breiteneder: "Grouping and outlier detection using robust sparse clustering"; Talk: Olomouc… S. Brodinova, P. Filzmoser, T. Ortner, M. Zaharieva, C. Breiteneder Details
Local projection for outlier detection T. Ortner, P. Filzmoser, S. Brodinova, M. Zaharieva, C. Breiteneder: "Local projection for outlier detection"; Talk: Olomouc Days of Applied… T. Ortner, P. Filzmoser, S. Brodinova, M. Zaharieva, C. Breiteneder Details
Virtual Reality: Über physische Grenzen hinweg Die Erwartungshaltung an Virtual Reality (VR) -Umgebungen in verschiedenen Anwendungsgebiete ist sehr hoch. Allerdings gibt es eine Reihe von… A. Mossel Details
The Opportunities of Virtual & Augmented Reality The advent of technologically based approaches through mixed reality (MR) environments holds significant promise in its ability to form a new medium,… A. Mossel Details

Theses

Applications of High Dynamic Range Imaging The High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDRI) pipeline provides us with greater level of detail in color and brightness pixel values by introducing methods… T. Akhavan Details
Virtual Reality zum Anfassen - VR-System mit robotergestütztem haptischem Feedback Continuously improving hardware increases the realism in Virtual Reality (VR). However, the immersion is often disturbed due to the lack of… C. Gatterer Details