{"id":4651,"date":"2015-10-26T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/msr_er\/?p=4651"},"modified":"2016-07-20T07:28:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T14:28:53","slug":"preview-of-acms-multimedia-conference-oct-29-keynote-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/blog\/preview-of-acms-multimedia-conference-oct-29-keynote-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview of ACM&#8217;s Multimedia Conference Oct 29 keynote address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-5001 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Zhengyou_Zhang-original.jpg\" alt=\"Zhengyou_Zhang\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zhang\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zhengyou Zhang<\/a>, research manager and principal researcher at Microsoft Research, will present his team\u2019s latest advances in immersive human-human telecommunications at <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acmmm.org\/2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">ACM\u2019s annual multimedia conference<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in Brisbane, Australia. The 2015 ACM Multimedia Conference runs from October 26-30. <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acmmm.org\/2015\/program\/\" target=\"_blank\">View the full conference program.<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an October 29 keynote address titled \u201cVision-enhanced Immersive Interaction and Remote Collaboration with Large Touch Displays,\u201d Dr. Zhang will demonstrate how the Kinect-inspired technology enables remote teams to feel as if they were working together in the same room.<\/p>\n<p>The importance and impact of such immersive experiences initially came to prominence in 2012 with the release of Dr. Zhang\u2019s paper, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/xpls\/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6190806\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Microsoft Kinect Sensor and Its Effect<\/em>,<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> published in the journal <em>IEEE MultiMedia<\/em>. It has since become one of the publication\u2019s most downloaded papers, culminating in Dr. Zhang earning the journal\u2019s 2015 IEEE Multimedia Best Department Article Award to add to his extensive list of honors.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Zhang, who leads the Multimedia, Interaction, and Experience (MIX) group at Microsoft Research, will give ACM conference attendees a close up-view of ViiBoard (Vision-enhanced Immersive Interaction with touch Board). The system\u2014consisting of VTouch and ImmerseBoard features\u2014enables \u201cnatural interaction and immersive remote collaboration with large touch displays by adding a commodity color plus depth sensor,\u201d according to ACM conference notes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>VTouch uses an RGBD sensor such as Microsoft Kinect to understand where the user is, who the user is, and what the user is doing even before the user touches the display.<\/li>\n<li>ImmerseBoard uses 3D processing of depth images, life-sized rendering, and novel visualizations to emulate writing side-by-side on either a physical whiteboard or mirror.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The net effect provides remote participants with \u201ca quantitatively better ability to estimate their remote partners\u2019 eye gaze direction, gesture direction, intention, and level of agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To date, only brief details of ViiBoard have been released, most notably from the following online videos:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-xM1rEhOw00\" target=\"_blank\">ViiBoard: Vision-Enhanced Immersive Interaction, part 1 of 2<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/pBny6KfGreU\" target=\"_blank\">ViiBoard: Vision-Enhanced Immersive Interaction, part 2 of 2<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More details about ViiBoard can be found in the following two recent conference papers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chen, Z. Liu, P.A. Chou, and Z. Zhang, \u201c<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/xpl\/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7177390&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D7177390\" target=\"_blank\">VTouch: Vision-Enhanced Interaction for Large Touch Displays<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>\u201d, in <em> IEEE International Conference On Multimedia And Expo <\/em>(ICME 2015), Torino, Italy, June 29 &#8211; July 3, 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Higuchi, Y. Chen, P.A. Chou, Z. Zhang, and Z. Liu, \u201c<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=2702160\" target=\"_blank\">ImmerseBoard: Immersive Telepresence Experience Using a Digital Whiteboard<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>\u201d, in <em> the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems <\/em>(ACM CHI 2015), pages 2383-2392, Seoul, Korea, April 18-23, 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ImmerseBoard\u2019s form factor is described in conference notes as \u201csuitable for practical and easy installation in homes and offices.\u201d Public availability has yet to be announced.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014John Kaiser, Research News<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For more computer science research news, visit <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.researchnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ResearchNews.com<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zhengyou Zhang, research manager and principal researcher at Microsoft Research, will present his team\u2019s latest advances in immersive human-human telecommunications at ACM\u2019s annual multimedia conference\u00a0in Brisbane, Australia. The 2015 ACM Multimedia Conference runs from October 26-30. View the full conference program. In an October 29 keynote address titled \u201cVision-enhanced Immersive Interaction and Remote Collaboration with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32627,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","msr-author-ordering":[],"msr_hide_image_in_river":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194480,194459],"tags":[194567,196575],"research-area":[13551],"msr-region":[],"msr-event-type":[],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-post-option":[],"msr-impact-theme":[],"msr-promo-type":[],"msr-podcast-series":[],"class_list":["post-4651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphics-and-multimedia","category-researchnews","tag-acm-multimedia-conference","tag-multimedia","msr-research-area-graphics-and-multimedia","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_event_details":{"start":"","end":"","location":""},"podcast_url":"","podcast_episode":"","msr_research_lab":[],"msr_impact_theme":[],"related-publications":[],"related-downloads":[],"related-videos":[],"related-academic-programs":[],"related-groups":[],"related-projects":[],"related-events":[],"related-researchers":[],"msr_type":"Post","byline":"","formattedDate":"October 26, 2015","formattedExcerpt":"Zhengyou Zhang, research manager and principal researcher at Microsoft Research, will present his team\u2019s latest advances in immersive human-human telecommunications at ACM\u2019s annual multimedia conference\u00a0in Brisbane, Australia. 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