Publications

 

Book chapters

Dragos Datcu, Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, "Semantic Audiovisual Data Fusion for Automatic Emotion Recognition", Advances in Emotion Recognition, WILEY, 1st edition, ISBN: 978-1-118-13066-7, pp. 411-434, January, 2015.

Siska Fitrianie, Chenke Yang, Dragos Datcu, Alin G. Chitu, Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, "Context-Aware Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction", Interactive Collaborative Information systems. 281, pp.237-272, Springer, Studies in Computational Intelligence, 2010.

• Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, R. Takapoui, Dragos Datcu, Z. Yang, "AUV Localisation using floating smart dust", Stockholm Contributions in Military-Technology, No.2, pp.107-119, 2010.
• Chenke Yang, Siska Fitrianie, Dragos Datcu, Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, "An aggression detection system for the train compartment". Advances in artificial intelligence for privacy protection and security, ISBN 9789812790323, no.1, pp.249-286, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2009.
• Dragos Datcu, Zhenke Yang, Leon Rothkrantz, "Multimodal workbench for automatic surveillance applications", Multimodal Surveillance: Sensors, Algorithms, and Systems, ISBN 1596931841, pp.311-338, Artech House Publishers, July 2007.

Journal articles

• Dragos Datcu, Leon Rothkrantz "Face Emotion Recognition Using a Crisis Related Smartphone App", International Journal on Information Technologies and Security, No SP3, Vol. 13, pp. 15-26. 2021-SP3-03. 2021.
  

  online:

• Hendrik Engelbrecht, Stephan G. Lukosch, Dragos Datcu "Evaluating the Impact of Technology Assisted Hotspot Policing on Situational Awareness and Task-Load", Journal Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies archive, Volume 3 Issue 1, March 2019, Article No. 9, ACM New York, NY, USA, DOI: 10.1145/3314396. 2019.
  

  online:

• Stephan G. Lukosch, Mariëlle den Hengst-Bruggeling, Corine H.G. Horsch, Dragos Datcu, Hendrik Engelbrecht "Exploratory study of a mobile location-based real-time notification system for frontline police officers", Journal of Universal Computer Science, Vol. 24, No. 7, pp. 916-934, 2018.
  

  online:

  (Open Access)

• Dragos Datcu, Leon Rothkrantz "Affective Computing and Augmented Reality for car driving simulators", Acta Polytechnica CTU Proceedings Journal, Vol 12 (2017), ISSN 2336-5382 (Online), Published by the Czech Technical University in Prague, DOI: https://doi.org/10.14311/APP.2017.12.0013, 2017.
  

  online:

  (Open Access)

• Marina Cidota, Stephan Lukosch, Dragos Datcu, Heide Lukosch "Comparing the Effect of Audio and Visual Notifications on Workspace Awareness using Head-Mounted Displays for Remote Collaboration in Augmented Reality.", Springer Journal of Augmented Human Research, DOI: 10.1007/s41133-016-0003-x, 2016.
  

  online:

  (Open Access)

• Dragos Datcu, Stephan Lukosch, Heide Lukosch, "A Collaborative Game to Study Presence and Situational Awareness in a Physical and an Augmented Reality Environment.", Journal of Universal Computer Science, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 247-270, 2016.
  

  online:

  (Open Access)

• Dragos Datcu, Stephan Lukosch, Heide Lukosch, Marina Marina, "Using Augmented Reality for Supporting Information Exchange in Teams from the Security Domain.", Journal of Security Informatics 2015, 4:10, DOI: 10.1186/s13388-015-0025-9, 2015.
  

  online:

  (Open Access)

• Stephan Lukosch, Heide Lukosch, Dragos Datcu, Marina Cidota, "Providing Information on the Spot: Using Augmented Reality for Situational Awareness in the Security Domain", Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), DOI: 10.1007/s10606-015-9235-4, Springer Netherlands, pp.1-52, 6 October 2015.
  

  online:

  (Open Access)

• Dragos Datcu, Stephan Lukosch, Frances Brazier, "On the Usability and Effectiveness of Different Interaction Types in Augmented Reality", International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, DOI:10.1080/10447318.2014.994193, 14 Jan 2015.
  

  (online: Open Access)

  (pdf)

• Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, Dragos Datcu, "Assessment of Emotion States During e-Learning". Journal of Communication and Cognition, Vol. 43, Nrs. 1-2, 2010.
• Mirela C. Popa, Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, Dragos Datcu, Pascal Wiggers, Ralph Braspenning, Caifeng Shan, "A comparative study of HMMs and DBNs applied to Facial Action Units Recognition". Neural network World, ISSN: 1210-0552, 6:737-760, 2010.
• Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, Dragos Datcu, N. Absil, "Multimodal affect detection of car drivers". Neural Network World, ISSN: 1210-0552, 3:293-305, 2009.
• Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, M. van Velden, Dragos Datcu, "Fusion of local maps in mobile ad-hoc networks", Neural Network World, ISSN: 1210-0552, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 67-79, Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, Prague, 2008.
• Dragos Datcu, Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, "Emotion Recognition from speech. Support for WEB Lectures", Journal of Communication and Cognition, Vol. 40, Nrs. 3-4, pp. 203-214, 2007.

Conference papers

 

2016

Dragos Datcu, Stephan Lukosch, Heide Lukosch, "Handheld Augmented Reality for Distributed Collaborative Crime Scene Investigation", ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work - Group'16, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA, November 13-16, 2016.

Marina Cidota, Stephan Lukosch, Dragos Datcu, Heide Lukosch, "Workspace Awareness in Collaborative AR using HMDs: A user study comparing Audio and Visual Notifications", the 7th Augmented Human International Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, February 25-26, 2016.

2015

Stephan Lukosch, Heide Lukosch, Dragos Datcu, Marina Cidotã, "On the Spot Information in Augmented Reality for Teams in the Security Domain", CHI 2015: Seoul, Republic of Korea; CHI Extended Abstracts 2015, 983-988, 2015.

2014

Floris Verburg, Freek van Tienen, Marijn Goedegebure, Dragos Datcu, Leon Rothkrantz, "A Peer matching tool using social media", International Conference on E-Learning, ISSN: 2367-6698, 201-206, 2014.

• Dragos Datcu, Ioana Stanculescu, Marina Cidota, Dorin Mircea Popovici, Stephan Lukosch, "Virtual co-location by augmented reality for on-site investigators and remote experts in archaeology domain", the 4th Balkan Symposium on Archaeometry (BSA'14), Nessebar, Bulgaria, September 27-30, 2014. [Poster paper]

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, "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. [Poster paper]

Dragos Datcu, "On the Enhancement of Augmented Reality-based Tele-Collaboration with Affective Computing Technology", the Romanian Human-Computer Interaction Conference (RoCHI'14), Constanta, Romania, September 3-4, 2014. [Key-note paper]

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", Proceeding CompSysTech '14 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies (CompSysTech'14), ISBN: 978-1-4503-2753-4, ACM New York, NY, USA, 134-141, 2014. [Best Paper Award]

• 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. [Demo paper]

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, "Free hands interaction in augmented reality", Proceedings of the 1st ACM symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI'13), ISBN: 978-1-4503-2141-9, doi:10.1145/2491367.2491370, pp.33-40, Los Angeles, CA, USA, July 20-21, 2013.

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, 28-29 June 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, 15-18 February, 2013.

2012

Madalina Toma, Dragos Datcu, "Determining Car Driver Interaction Intent through Analysis of Behavior Patterns", Technological innovation for value creation, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, Springer Boston, ISBN: 978-3-642-28254-6, Volume 372, pp. 113-120, 2012.

Marina A. Cidota, Dragos Datcu, Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, "Learning AAM fitting with kernel methods", 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ICAISC'12), Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 2012, Zakopane, Poland, May, 2012.

• Ioana Stanculescu, Valentin Moise, Corneliu Ponta, Maria Haiducu, Maria Geba, Lucretia Miu, Dragos Datcu, Stephan Lukosch, "Preservation of textile and leather objects by augmented reality technology and gamma irradiation", Conservation-Restoration Conference (CONScience'12), Bucharest, Romania, October 31-November 1, 2012.

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. [Demo paper]

• Ioana R. Stanculescu, Dragos Datcu, Stephan Lukosch, Valentin I. Moise, Mihaela M. Manea, Marian Virgolici, Lucretia Miu, Corneliu C. Ponta, "Physical chemical tests, Gamma Irradiation and Augmented Reality technology for the conservation of textile and leather heritage artefacts", 1st International Seminar and Workshop on Emerging Technology and Innovation for Cultural Heritage, "Preservation of Parchment, Leather and Textiles", ISBN 978-973-1716-81-7, pp.73-77, Bucharest, Romania, September 24-26, 2012.

2011

• Dragos Datcu, Mirela Popa, Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, "Automatic face analysis for affect recognition". (Euromedia'11), British Institute of Technology and Ecommerce, London, UK, April 18-20, 2011.

Dragos Datcu, Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, "Emotion recognition using bimodal data fusion". (CompSysTech'11), ISBN 978-1-4503-0917-2, ACM International Conference Proceedings Series, no. 578, 2011.

• Leon Rothkrantz, Dragos Datcu, "A video surveillance system of military areas", International Society for Military Sciences Annual Conference (ISMS'11), Tartu, Estonia, November 9-10, 2011.

2010

• Dragos Datcu, Mirela C. Popa, Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, "Automatic recognition of drivers affect using face analysis". Driver Car Interaction & Interface, Prague, Czech Republic, 2010.
• Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, R. Jansen, Dragos Datcu, Mirela C. Popa, "Emotion assessment in game playing". (GAME-ON'10), Leicester, United Kingdom, pp.66-71, November 17-19, 2010.

2009

Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, Zhenke Yang, Michael Jepson, Dragos Datcu, Pascal Wiggers, "A bottom-up approach of fusion of events in surveillance systems", In Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies (CompSysTech'09), ISBN: 978-1-60558-986-2, ACM New York, NY, USA, p.29, Rousse, Bulgaria, June 18-19, 2009.

• Dragos Datcu, Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, "Automatic recognition of emotions in car environments", In Proceedings of Driver-Car Interaction & Interface (DCII'09) Conference, ISBN: 978-80-87136-05-8, pp.98-106, Prague, 2009.
• Dragos Datcu, Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, "Automatic seabed and underwater 3D object recognition", International Society for Military Sciences Annual Conference (ISMS'09), "Security in 2020 in a multi polar world", Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 25-26, 2009.

Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, Dragos Datcu, Iulia Chiriacescu, Alin G. Chitu, "Assessment of the emotional states of students during e-learning", International Conference on e-Learning and the Knowledge Society (e-Learning'09), p.77-82, 2009. [Best Paper Award]

2008

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. [Demo paper]

Robert Horlings, Dragos Datcu, Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, "Emotion Recognition using Brain Activity", (CompSysTech'08), ISBN 978-954-9641-52-3, ACM International Conference Proceedings Series, no. 374, ISBN: 978-954-9641-52-3, July, 2008.

• Dragos Datcu, Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, "A dialog action manager for automatic crisis management", (ISCRAM'08), ISBN 978-0-615-20697-4, pp. 384-393, Washington, DC, USA, May, 2008.
• Dragos Datcu, Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, "Semantic audio-visual data fusion for automatic emotion recognition", (Euromedia'08) Porto, ISBN 978-9077381-38-0, pp. 58-65, Eurosis, Ghent, April, 2008.

2007

Dragos Datcu, Zhenke Yang, Leon Rothkrantz, "A system for adaptive multimodal interaction in crisis environments", LNCS 4560, (UI-HCII'07) Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Usability and Internationalization, ISBN: 978-3-540-73288-4, Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, July, 2007.

Siska Fitrianie, Dragos Datcu and Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, "Human Communication based on Icons in Crisis Environments", LNCS 4560, (UI-HCII'07) Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Usability and Internationalization, ISBN: 978-3-540-73288-4, Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, July, 2007.

• Leon J.M.Rothkrantz, Marcel van Velden, Dragos Datcu, "Fusion of local maps in mobile ad-hoc networks", Transtec Prague 2007, ISBN 978-80-01-03782, pp. 100-113, Czech Technical University, September, 2007.
• Dragos Datcu, Zhenke Yang, Leon Rothkrantz, "Multimodal workbench for automatic surveillance applications", Workshop on Multimodal Sentient Computing: Sensors, Algorithms and Systems, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'07), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, June, 2007.
• Dragos Datcu, Leon Rothkrantz, "Multimodal Web based system for human emotion recognition", Proceedings ISC 2007, ISBN 978-90-77381-34-2, pp. 91-98, EUROSIS-ETI, Delft, June, 2007.

Dragos Datcu, Leon Rothkrantz, "Facial Expression Recognition in still pictures and videos using Active Appearance Models. A comparison approach", (CompSysTech'07), ISBN: 978-954-9641-50-9, University of Rousse, Bulgaria, 14-15 June, 2007.

• Siska Fitrianie, Ronald Poppe, Trung H. Bui, Alin G. Chitu, Dragos Datcu, R. Dor, D.H.W. Hofs, P.Wiggers, D.J.M. Willems, M.Poel, L.J.M. Rothkrantz, L.G. Vuurpijl, J. Zwiers, "A Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction Framework for Research into Crisis Management", (ISCRAM'07), May, 2007.

Dragos Datcu, Leon Rothkrantz, "The use of Active Appearance Model for facial expression recognition in crisis environments", Proceedings ISCRAM2007, ISBN 9789054874171, pp. 515-524, May, 2007.

• Dragos Datcu, Leon Rothkrantz, "Multimodal Web based system for human emotion recognition", (Euromedia'07), EUROSIS-ETI, Delft, April 2007.

2006

Dragos Datcu, Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, "The recognition of emotions from speech using GentleBoost Classifier", (CompSysTech'06), University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, June 15-16, 2006.

• Siska Fitrianie, Dragos Datcu, Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, "Constructing Knowledge of the World in Crisis Situations using Visual Language", 2006 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC'06), Taipei, 2006. [Best Paper Award]
• W.S.Wong, W.Chan, Dragos Datcu, Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, "Using a sparse learning relevance vector machine in facial expression recognition", (Euromedia'06), ISBN 90-77381-25-2, pp. 33-37, University of Ghent, April, 2006.
• Siska Fitrianie, Dragos Datcu, Alin Chitu, Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, "i-Cat as a companion robot", iCat Workshop, High Tech Campus Eindhoven, The Netherlands, March 27, 2006.

2005

• Dragos Datcu, Leon J.M.Rothkrantz, "A.I. techniques for face detection", Proceedings of the seventeenth Belgium-Netherlands conference on artificial intelligence (BNAIC'05), pp. 415-416, Brussels, Belgium, October 17-18, 2005.
• Dragos Datcu, Leon J.M.Rothkrantz, "Facial expression recognition with Relevance Vector Machines", ISBN: 0-7803-9332-5, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME'05), July 6-8, 2005.
• Dragos Datcu, Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, "Machine learning techniques for face analysis", (Euromedia'05), ISBN 90-77381-17-1, no. 11, pp. 105-109, April 2005.
• Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, Dragos Datcu, Siska Fitrianie, Bogdan Tatomir, "Personal Mobile Support for Crisis Management Using Ad-Hoc Networks", The 11th International Conference on HumanComputer Interaction, ISBN 0-8058-5807-5, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc, (HCII'05), Las Vegas, July 22-27, 2005.
• Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, Dragos Datcu and Martijn Beelen, "Personal Intelligent Travel Assistant A distributed approach", ISBN: 1-932415-66-1,1-932415-67-X (1-932415-68-8), pp. 24-30, CSREA Press, U.S.A., (IC-AI'05), Las Vegas, June 27-30, 2005.
• Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, Jacek C. Wojdel, Dragos Datcu, "Smart multimodal interfaces for human-computer interaction on train stations", Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Systems and technologies (ComSysTech'05), ISBN 954-9641-42-2, Bulgaria, Varna, June 16-17, 2005.
• Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, Marcel van Velden, Dragos Datcu, "A location-based approach for distributed world-knowledge in mobile ad-hoc networks", Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Systems and technologies (ComSysTech'05), ISBN 954-9641-42-2, Bulgaria, Varna , June 16-17, 2005.

2004

• Dragos Datcu, Michel Richert, T.Roberti, W.de Vries and Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, "AIBO Robot as a Soccer and Rescue Game Player", EUROSIS-ETI Publication, ISBN: 90-77381-15-5, pp.45-49, (GAME-ON'04), Ghent, Belgium, November 25-27, 2004.

Dragos Datcu, Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, "Automatic recognition of facial expressions using Bayesian Belief Networks", ISBN 0-7803-8567-5, pp. 2209-2214, IEEE (SMC'04), The Hague, The Netherlands, October 10-13, 2004.

• Dragos Datcu, Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, "A multimodal workbench for automatic surveillance", ISBN 90-803086-9-2, pp.45-50, (ASCI'04), Port Zelande, The Netherlands, June 2-4, 2004.
• Dragos Datcu, Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, "A multimodal workbench for automatic surveillance", EUROSIS Publication, ISBN: 90-77381-08-2, pp.108-112, (Euromedia'04), Hasselt, Belgium, April 19-21, 2004.

Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, Dragos Datcu, "Multi-medial Stress Assessment", ISBN 0-7803-8567-5, pp. 3781-3786, IEEE (SMC'04), The Hague, The Netherlands, October 10-13, 2004.

• Herman J. Dikkers, Mike A. Spaans, Dragos Datcu, Mirek Novak, Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, "Facial Recognition System for Driver Vigilance Monitoring", ISBN 0-7803-8567-5, pp. 3787-3792, IEEE (SMC'04), The Hague, The Netherlands, October 10-13, 2004.

 

Technical Notes

• Thomas Vele, Christian Coman, Dragos Datcu, Elena Carina Catrinescu, "Radar and Video Technologies in Support of Counter Improvized Explosize Device Operations", Technical Report TR/2013/NAT008053/03, NATO Communications and Information Agency, July 2014.

 

Articles written

• Dragos Datcu. "Standalone or Wide field-of-view HMD? (HoloLens vs. Meta2)", Mikrocentrum/opleiden ontmoeten ondernemen, July 5, 2014.
• Dragos Datcu. "Standalone or Wide field-of-view HMD? (HoloLens vs. Meta2)", Twnkls Blog, July 1, 2014.

 

Theses

• "Multimodal recognition of emotions", PhD.Thesis, Delft University of Technology, 2009.
• "Recognition of Facial Expressions", MSc.Thesis, Delft University of Technology, 2004.
• "Speech Recognition Systems", BSc.Thesis, 2003.