About Me
Google Scholar SIGMM Thesis Award
Specialties/interests: tele-immersion/tele-presence, AR/VR, 3D, wearable/mobile/ubiquitous systems, perceptual computing, and human-centered computing.
Specialties/interests: tele-immersion/tele-presence, AR/VR, 3D, wearable/mobile/ubiquitous systems, perceptual computing, and human-centered computing.
Awards
- ACM Computing Reviews' Best of 2012.
- SIGMM Best PhD Thesis Award 2012.
- ACM Multimedia Best Student Paper Award, 2011.
- IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) Best Paper Award Nominee, 2009.
- IBM Watson Emerging Leaders in Multimedia, 2008.
- Yahoo! Key Technical Challenge Award 2007.
- ACM Student Research Competition, Second Place, 2007.
Buzz
- SIGMM Outstanding PhD Thesis Award: 1) UCSD news; 2) CS@Illinois news; 3) SIGMM news. 2012.
- "3D Conferencing System Allows for Virtual Light Saber Duels", Wired, 2009.
Publications
Selected Journals Publications
Selected Conference Publications
- Wanmin Wu, Ahsan Arefin, Gregorij Kurillo, Pooja Agarwal, Klara Nahrstedt, Ruzena Bajcsy, CZLoD: A PsychophysicalApproach for 3D Tele-immersive Video, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP), Volume 8 Issue 3s, September 2012. ACM Computing Reviews' Notable Computing Books and Articles of 2012
- Wanmin Wu, Sanjoy Dasgupta, Ernesto E Ramirez, Carlyn Peterson, Gregory J Norman, Classification Accuracies of Physical Activities Using Smartphone Motion Sensors, Journal of Medical Internet Research (ranked #1 in Medical Informatics, and #2 in Health Sciences/Health Services Research), Volume 14, No. 5, 2012.
- Zhenyu Yang, Wanmin Wu, Klara Nahrstedt, Gregorij Kurillo and Ruzena Bajcsy, Enabling Multi-party 3D Tele-immersive Environments with ViewCast, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP), 2010.
Selected Conference Publications
- Wanmin Wu, Ahsan Arefin, Gregorij Kurillo, Pooja Agarwal, Klara Nahrstedt, Ruzena Bajcsy, Color-plus-Depth Level-of-Detail in 3D Tele-immersive Video: A Psychophysical Approach, ACM Multimedia, 2012. Best Student Paper Award.
- (Acceptance ratio = 17%, 666 submissions).
- Wanmin Wu, Ahsan Arefin, Raoul Rivas, Klara Nahrstedt, Renata Sheppard, Zhenyu Yang, Quality of Experience in Distributed Interactive Multimedia Environments: Toward a Theoretical Framework, ACM Multimedia, 2009.
(Acceptance ratio = 17%). - Rahul Malik, Wanmin Wu and Klara Nahrstedt, Modeling the Tele-Immersive Systems using Stochastic Activity Network, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'09), Cancun, Mexico, July 2009. Best Paper Award Nominee (633 submissions).
- Wanmin Wu, Zhenyu Yang, Klara Nahrstedt, Dynamic Overlay Multicast in 3D Video Collaborative Systems, International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV'09), June 2009.
- Wanmin Wu, Zhenyu Yang, Indranil Gupta, Klara Nahrstedt, Towards Multi-Site Collaboration in 3D Tele-Immersive Environments, International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'08), Beijing, China, 2008. (Acceptance ratio = 17%).