Research


Expertise

  • Tele-Collaboration by Augmented Reality
  • Affective Computing
  • Video Analytics
  • Multimodal Data Fusion
  • Brain Computing
  • Automatic Underwater Inspection by Robots in Deep Sea
  • Communication Language based on Icons
  • Decision Support Systems for Crisis Management

Examples


● Live Smart Urban Traffic Monitoring (2022)

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Computer Vision-oriented Car & Pedestrian tracking.

● Collaborative Augmented Reality technology for safety/security, 2016



Media exposure on Twnkls' line of R&D products I am responsible with.
These products use state-of-the art Augmented Reality technology
and are to be soon used in safety/security domain.


● Augmented Reality for European Cultural Patrimony, 2014



Virtual co-location by Augmented Reality for on-site investigators and remote experts in European cultural patrimony studies.
Dragos Datcu, Marina Cidota, Stephan Lukosch; Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Dorin Mircea Popovici; University Ovidius, Constanta, Romania
Calin Neamtu; Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania


● AR Tele-Collaboration in AR for InFlight Maintenance Training in Human Space Domain, 2014





Dragos Datcu, Marina Cidota, Stephan Lukosch, David Martinez Oliveira, Mikael Wolff: "Virtual Co-location to Support Remote Assistance for Inflight Maintenance in Ground Training for Space Missions", ACM 15-th International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies (CompSysTech'14), Ruse, Bulgaria, June 27, 2014. [Best Paper Award]



● Using Augmented Reality to Support Information Exchange of Teams in the Security Domain, 2014



Dragos Datcu, Marina Cidota, Heide Lukosch, Stephan Lukosch, "On the Usability of Augmented Reality for Information Exchange in Teams from the Security Domain", IEEE Joint Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (JISIC'14), the Hague, the Netherlands, September 24-26, 2014.

Dragos Datcu, Marina Cidota, Heide Lukosch, Stephan Lukosch, "[Poster] Using Augmented Reality to Support Information Exchange of Teams in the Security Domain", IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR'14), Munich, Germany, September 10-12, 2014.



● Augmented Reality in Forensic Investigations (2015)






● A Collaborative Game to Study the Perception of Presence during Virtual Co-location, 2013



Dragos Datcu, Stephan Lukosch, Heide Lukosch: "Comparing Presence, Workload and Situational Awareness in a Collaborative Real World and Augmented Reality Scenario", IEEE ISMAR 2013 Workshop on Collaboration in Merging Realities (CiMeR'13), Adelaide, SA, Australia, October 1, 2013.

Dragos Datcu, Stephan Lukosch, Heide Lukosch: "A Software System for Studying the Perception of Presence in a Collaborative Real World and Augmented Reality Scenario", The 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW'14), Baltimore, Maryland, USA, February 15-19, 2014.



● Augmented Reality for Police Investigations (2013)






● Noncontact Automatic Heart Rate Analysis in Visible Spectrum by Specific Face Regions, 2012



Dragos Datcu, Marina Cidota, Stephan Lukosch, Leon Rothkrantz: "Noncontact Automatic Heart Rate Analysis in Visible Spectrum by Specific Face Regions", 14-th International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies (CompSysTech'13), Ruse, Bulgaria, June 28-29, 2013. [Best Paper Award]

Cidota Marina, Dragos Datcu, Leon Rothkrantz, "The influence of the sampling frequency of a video recording on a heart-rate detection algorithm", The International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM'13), Barcelona, Spain, February 15-18, 2013.


● Free-Hands Interaction In Augmented Reality



Dragos Datcu, Stephan Lukosch: "Free Hands Interaction in Augmented Reality", ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI'13), Los Angeles, CA, USA, July 20-21, 2013.



● CSI The Hague, 2012

A project of the Netherlands Forensic Institute, The Hague [link].


Dragos Datcu, Thomas Swart, Stephan Lukosch, Zoltan Rusak: "Multimodal Collaboration for Crime Scene Investigation in Mediated Reality", 14th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI'12), Santa Monica, California, USA, October 22-26, 2012.


● Real time Concentric Circle detection with TWNKLS NGT (2018)






● Multi-marker Tracking for AR (2015)






● Stereo Tracking for AR HMDs (2012)






● Video Analytics - Automatic Traffic Analysis

A project by inteliwatch.eu (2013)




● Video Analytics - Face Tracking and Facial Expression Recognition

A project by inteliwatch.eu (2012)




● Video Analytics - Automatic Licence Plate Recognition

A project by inteliwatch.eu (2012)




● Multimodal Emotion Recognition



Dragos Datcu, Leon J.M.Rothkrantz: "Automatic bi-modal emotion recognition system based on fusion of facial expressions and emotion extraction from speech ", IEEE Face and Gesture Conference (FG'08), ISBN 978-1-4244-2154-1, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 17-19, 2008.