Abstract:
The past decade has witnessed the emergence of 3D tele-immersive and collaborative systems. By immersing the fully reconstructed body images of users into a shared virtual space, 3D tele-immersion (3DTI) enables geographically distributed people to interact with a strong sense of co-presence. As an instance of hypervirtual tele-copresence, 3DTI has a diversity of applications, such as remote training, consultation, and artistic performance. Right now, we are at an initial stage of exploring how to build up, utilize and evaluate such system from several important aspects including content delivery, user interface and human/social factors. I will summarize on-going research in this presentation.

Biography:
Zhenyu Yang joined the School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University as an Assistant Professor in fall 2008. His research interests include networking and distributed systems with a focus on communicative, collaborative and multimedia systems, and development of multimedia applications particularly to promote collaborative and interdisciplinary research. He received B.E. from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.