Pablo Cesar

Pablo Cesar is a postdoctoral researcher at CWI (The National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands) in Amsterdam. He received a Dr. Tech. degree (December 2005) from Helsinki University of Technology (Finland) and a M. Sc. degree (February 2002) from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain). Pablo Cesar has (co)authored over 40 articles (conference papers and journal articles) about multimedia systems and infrastructures, media sharing, interactive media, multimedia content modelling, and user interaction. He is, as well, involved in standardization activities (e.g., SMIL from W3C). He is co-editor of the TOMCCAP special issue “Human-Centred Television: Directions in Interactive Digital Television Research.” In addition, he was the general chair of the 5th European Interactive conference (EuroITV2007) and has given tutorials about Interactive Digital Television in prestigious conferences such as ACM Multimedia and WWW Conferences.

Publications

Social Interactive Television: Immersive Shared Experiences and Perspectives
Pablo Cesar, David Geerts, Konstantinos Chorianopoulos. © 2009. 362 pages.
Television, since its invention, has been considered to be a social link between people. Continually enhanced by innovation, the next frontier for this technological phenomenon...
Television Content Enrichment and Sharing: The Ambulant Annotator
Dick C.A. Bulterman, Pablo Cesar, Jack Jansen, Rodrigo Laiola Guimarães. © 2009. 10 pages.
This chapter reports on the Ambulant Annotator, a middleware extension for Personal Digital Recorders (PDR), in the form of a lightweight authoring tool, which allows the viewer...
Present and Future of Software Graphics Architectures for Interactive Digital Television
Pablo Cesar, Keith Baker, Dick Bulterman, Luiz Fernando Gomes Soares, Samuel Cruz-Lara. © 2009. 17 pages.
This chapter aims to define a research agenda regarding the software graphics architecture for interactive digital television (iDTV). It is important to note that by iDTV we do...
Present and Future of Software Graphics Architectures for Interactive Digital Television
Pablo Cesar, Ke Th Baker, Dick Bulterman, Luiz Soares, Samuel Cruz-Lara, Annelies Kaptein. © 2007. 21 pages.
This chapter aims to define a research agenda regarding the software graphics architecture for interactive digital television (iDTV). It is important to note that by iDTV we do...