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Radu-Daniel Vatavu

Radu-Daniel Vatavu's Homepage
Research
I work in Human Computer Interaction and Ambient Intelligence with focus on gesture-based interfaces.
[research cloud using the titles of my papers published in the last 3 years]
Position
Lecturer in Computer Science at the University Stefan cel Mare of Suceava, Romania, where I teach Algorithms Design, Advanced Programming, and Pattern Recognition.
Contact
University Stefan cel Mare of Suceava
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
13, University Street
Suceava 720229
Romania
email: vatavu (at) eed (dot) usv (dot) ro
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Radu-Daniel Vatavu's Publications
Conferences & journals
Lisa Anthony, Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Jacob O. Wobbrock (2013, forthcoming)
In Proc. of the 39th Graphics Interface Conference - GI'13 (Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, May 2013). Toronto, Ontario: Canadian Information Processing Society, pp. ?-?
GI 2013
AR: 16/42 (38%, HCI track)
[forthcoming]
[how do 1000 gesture articulations look like?]
Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Géry Casiez, Laurent Grisoni (2013)
In Proc. of the 31st ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI'13 (Paris, France, April 2013). ACM Press, pp. 277-280
CHI 2013
AR: 392/1963 (20%)
[doi] [pdf] [video mp4]
Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Ionut-Alexandru Zaiti (2013)
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 71(5). Elsevier, pp. 590-607
IJHCS, Elsevier
[doi]
[posture dataset & code forthcoming]
Radu-Daniel Vatavu (2013)
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 71(4). Elsevier, pp. 387-409
IJHCS, Elsevier
[doi]
[toolkit forthcoming]
Bogdan Pogorelc, Artur Lugmayr, Bjorn Stockleben, Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Nina Tahmasebi, Estefania Serral, Emilija Stojmenova, Bojan Imperl, Thomas Risse, Gideon Zenz, Matjaz Gams (2013)
Multimedia Tools and Applications ?(?). Springer Netherlands, pp. ?-?
MTAP, Springer
[doi] [pdf]
Radu-Daniel Vatavu
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments 5(2). IOS Press, pp. 187-211
JAISE, IOS Press
[doi]
Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Lisa Anthony, Jacob O. Wobbrock (2012)
In Proc. of the 14th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction - ICMI'12 (Santa Monica, California, USA, Oct. 2012). ACM Press, pp. 273-280
OUTSTANDING PAPER AWARD
ICMI 2012
AR: 15/74 (20%, long)
[doi] [pdf]
[$P home page] Outstanding Paper Award
Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Catalin Marian Chera, Wei-Tek Tsai (2012)
In Proc. of the International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence - AmI'12 (Pisa, Italy, Nov. 2012). In F. Paterno et al. (Eds.): LNAI 7683. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 161-176
AmI 2012
AR: 18/47 (38%, long)
[doi] [pdf]
[GPWS home page]
Radu-Daniel Vatavu (2012)
In Proc. of the 10th European Conference on Interactive TV and Video - EuroITV'12 (Berlin, Germany, July 2012). ACM Press, pp. 45-48
EuroITV 2012
AR: 31/91 (34%)
[doi] [pdf]
Radu-Daniel Vatavu (2012)
In Proc. of the 9th ACM International Conference on Designing Interactive Systems - DIS'12 (NewCastle, UK, June 2012). ACM Press, pp. 328-337
DIS 2012
AR: 90/449 (20%)
[doi] [pdf]
Radu-Daniel Vatavu (2012)
Multimedia Tools and Applications. Springer Netherlands
MTAP, Springer
[doi] [pdf]
Radu-Daniel Vatavu (2012)
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments 4 (2). IOS Press, pp. 79-93
JAISE, IOS Press
[doi] [pdf]
[video flv 41MB]
Bogdan Pogorelc, Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Artur Lugmayr, Bjorn Stockleben, Thomas Risse, Juha Kaario, Estefania Constanza Lomonaco and Matjaz Gams (2012)
Multimedia Tools and Applications, 58 (2). Springer Netherlands, pp. 399-425
MTAP, Springer
[doi] [pdf]
Radu-Daniel Vatavu (2012)
In Proc. of the 17th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces - IUI'2012 (Lisbon, Portugal, Feb. 2012). ACM Press, pp. 297-300
IUI 2012
AR: 49/212 (23%)
[doi] [pdf]
Radu-Daniel Vatavu (2011)
In Proc. of the 13th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction - ICMI'2011 (Alicante, Spain, Nov. 2011). ACM Press, pp. 271-278
ICMI 2011
AR: 47/120 (39%)
[doi] [pdf]
Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Daniel Vogel, Géry Casiez, Laurent Grisoni (2011)
In Proc. of the 13th IFIP TC13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT'2011 (Lisbon, Portugal, Sep. 2011). LNCS 6947. Springer, pp. 89-106
INTERACT 2011
AR: 111/402 (27%)
[doi] [pdf]
Radu-Daniel Vatavu (2012)
Multimedia Tools and Applications, 59 (1), Springer Netherlands, pp. 113-128
MTAP, Springer
[doi] [pdf]
[video flv 24MB]
Radu-Daniel Vatavu (2012)
Multimedia Tools and Applications, 58 (2), Springer Netherlands, pp. 371-383
MTAP, Springer
[doi] [pdf]
[video wmv 8MB]
Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Ovidiu-Ciprian Ungurean, Stefan-Gheorghe Pentiuc (2011)
In D. England (Ed.) Whole Body Interaction. Springer Human-Computer Interaction Series, Springer, pp. 163-172
Springer HCI Series
Book chapter
[doi] [book]
Radu-Daniel Vatavu (2011)
In Proc. of the 2nd Int. Symposium on Ambient Intelligence - ISAmI'2011 (Salamanca, Spain, April 2011). Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol. 92, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pp. 157-164
ISAmI 2011
[doi]
Radu-Daniel Vatavu (2011)
In J. Zhang, L. Shao, L. Zhang and G.A. Jones (Eds.), Intelligent Video Event Analysis and Understanding. Springer Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol. 332, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pp. 1-19
Springer SCI series
Book chapter
[doi] [book] [pdf]
Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Laurent Grisoni, Stefan-Gheorghe Pentiuc (2010)
In S. Kopp, I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Gesture in Embodied Communication and Human-Computer Interaction, LNCS 5934, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pp. 85-97
GW 2009
[doi] [pdf]
Radu-Daniel Vatavu (2010)
In A. Marcus, A. Cereijo Roibas, R. Sala (Eds.), Mobile TV: Customizing Content and Experience, Springer Human-Computer Interaction Series, Springer London, pp. 121-139
Springer HCI Series
Book chapter
[doi] [book] [pdf]
Radu-Daniel Vatavu (2010)
In M. Grgic, K. Delac, M. Ghanbari (Eds.), Recent Advances in Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications. Springer Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol. 231/2009, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pp. 145-170
Springer SCI Series
Book chapter
[doi] [book]
Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Laurent Grisoni, Stefan-Gheorghe Pentiuc (2009)
In M.S. Dias, S. Gibet, M.M. Wanderley, R. Bastos (Eds.), Gesture-Based Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation. LNCS 5085, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pp. 1-12
GW 2007
AR: 31/53 (58%)
[doi] [pdf]
[video avi 4MB]
Cristian Andy Tanase, Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Stefan-Gheorghe Pentiuc, Adrian Graur (2008)
Advances in Electrical and Computer Engineering 8(2), pp. 61-64
AECE
[doi] [pdf]
[video wmv 7MB]
Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Stefan-Gheorghe Pentiuc (2008)
Computing and Informatics 27(6). Slovak Academy of Sciences, pp. 837-851
CAI, Slovak Academy of Sciences
[doi] [pdf]
Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Stefan-Gheorghe Pentiuc (2008)
In Proc. of the 6th European Interactive TV Conference - EuroITV 2008 (Salzburg, Austria, July 2008). LNCS 5066, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pp. 183-187
EuroITV 2008
AR: 42/156 (27%)
[doi] [pdf] [video]
Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Stefan-Gheorghe Pentiuc, Laurent Grisoni, Christophe Chaillou (2008)
Advances in Electrical and Computer Engineering 8(1), pp. 67-71
AECE
[doi] [pdf]
Adriana Bacila, Xavier Decoopman, Radu-Daniel Vatavu, G. Mesmacque, V.A. Serban, M. Voda (2007)
International Journal of Fatigue, 29 (9-11). Elsevier, pp. 1772-1780
IJF, Elsevier
[doi] [pdf]
Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Stefan-Gheorghe Pentiuc, Christophe Chaillou, Laurent Grisoni, Samuel Degrande (2006)
In Proc. of the 8th Int. Conference on Development and Application Systems - DAS 2006 (Suceava, Romania), pp. 477-482
DAS 2006
[pdf] [video wmv 7MB]
Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Stefan-Gheorghe Pentiuc, Christophe Chaillou (2005)
Advances in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 5 (12), pp. 72-79
AECE
[pdf]
Workshops
Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Ionut Alexandru Zaiti (2011)
In R. Wichert, K. Van Laerhoven, J. Gelissen (Eds.) Constructing Ambient Intelligence. Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 277, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 245-248
at AMI 2011
Springer CCIS
[doi] [pdf] [book]
Radu-Daniel Vatavu (2010)
In Proc. of the 3rd Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience - SAME 2010 at AmI 2010 (Malaga, Spain, Nov. 2010), pp. 8-13
at AMI 2010
[pdf]
Radu-Daniel Vatavu (2009)
In Proc. of the 3rd Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience - SAME 2009 at AmI 2009 (Salzburg, Austria, Nov. 2009)
at AMI 2009
[pdf] [video]
Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Ovidiu Ciprian Ungurean, Stefan-Gheorghe Pentiuc (2009)
In the 3rd Workshop on Whole Body Interaction - WBI 2009 at CHI 2009 (Boston, USA, April 2009)
at CHI 2009
[pdf]
Ovidiu Ciprian Ungurean, Stefan-Gheorghe Pentiuc, Radu-Daniel Vatavu (2009)
In Proc. of the 8th Int. Gesture Workshop - GW'2009 (Bielefeld, Germany, Feb. 2009)
at GW 2009
[pdf] [poster]
[video wmv 5.5MB]
Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Stefan-Gheorghe Pentiuc, Tudor Ioan Cerlinca (2007)
In Proc. of Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces in Semantic Interaction at ICMI 2007 (Nagoya, Japan, Nov. 2007). ACM Press, pp. 3-8
at ICMI 2007
[doi] [pdf]
[video wmv 13MB]
Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Stefan-Gheorghe Pentiuc (2005)
In Proc. of the Int. Workshop of Control and Information Technologies (Ostrava, Czech Rep., Sep. 2005), pp. 49-54
at IWCIT 2005
[pdf] [video avi 23MB]
Others
Radu-Daniel Vatavu (2012)
Tutorial at EuroITV'2012, the 10th European Interactive TV Conference (Berlin, Germany, July 2012). Adjunct Proceedings of EuroITV'12. Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, FOKUS, pp. 136-137
Half-day Tutorial
at EuroITV 2012
[slides]
PhD Thesis (cum laude)
Radu-Daniel Vatavu (2004-2008)
Real-Time Acquisition of Human Gestures for Interacting with Virtual Reality
Co-directed between Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France and University Stefan cel Mare of Suceava
Defended in public on 18th March 2008
[pdf]
[dart-europe]
[iris]
Jury composition:

Prof. Adrian Graur (Univ. Suceava, Romania), president of jury
Prof. Christophe Chaillou (LIFL, France), co-advisor
Prof. Stefan-Gheorghe Pentiuc (Univ. Suceava, Romania), co-advisor
Mr. Radu Horaud (INRIA Grenoble, France), reviewer
MdC. Laurent Grisoni (LIFL, France), reviewer
Prof. Dan Galea (Univ. Iasi, Romania), reviewer
Prof. Alexandru Valachi (Univ. Iasi, Romania), reviewer

Abstract:

We address in this thesis the problem of gesture recognition with specific focus on providing a flexible model for movement trajectories as well as for estimating the variation in execution that is inherently present when performing gestures. Gestures are captured in a computer vision scenario which approaches somewhat the specifics of interactive surfaces. We propose a flexible model for gesture commands based on a spline representation which is enhanced with elastic properties in a direct analogy with the theory of elasticity from classical physics. The model is further used for achieving gesture recognition in the context of supervised learning. In order to address the problem of variability in execution, we propose a model that measures objectively and quantitatively the local tendencies that users introduce in their executions. We make use of this model in order to address a problem that is considered hard by the community: automatic segmentation of continuous motion trajectories and scale invariant identification of gesture commands. We equally show the usefulness of our model for performing ergonomic analysis on gesture dictionaries.

Keywords: gesture interfaces, elastic splines, variation in execution, trajectory segmentation.

Last update: January 2013