ETH Zurich : Computer Science : Pervasive Computing : Distributed Systems : People : Mihai Bâce

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Mihai Bâce
PhD Candidate

ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich)
Department of Computer Science
Distributed Systems Group
ETH Zentrum, CNB H 108
Universitätstr. 6
CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland

Phone:	+41 44 633 87 37
E-mail:	mihai.bace@inf.ethz.ch
URL:	http://people.inf.ethz.ch/mbace/ (this page)

Short CV

I am a PhD student and Research Assistant in the Distributed Systems Group at ETH Zurich under the supervision of Prof. Friedemann Mattern. Before joining the PhD program, I obtained my master's degree in Computer Science from EPFL, Switzerland. I also hold a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. During my master studies I did two internships, one at Microsoft as a Software Development Engineer and one at ABB Corporate Research Center where I worked on my master thesis.

My research interest is in the general area of Human-Computer Interaction, with a focus on computational aspects and has influences from both Machine Learning and Computer Vision. In my work, I develop innovative technologies to better understand users and enhance their interaction capabilities. Concretely, my work so far has focused on 1) detecting gestures using off-the-shelf wearables and facilitating interaction among multiple people, 2) enhancing the interaction experience when using wearable eye trackers either by making calibration easier or through gaze gestures, and 3) understanding and modelling users' visual attention in everyday mobile device interactions.

A more detailed CV can be found here: Mihai Bâce CV

Activities

11/2018: I presented our work on Visual Attention on Mobile Devices at the Eye Tracking Interest Group in Zurich (ETIZ) meeting
08/2018: I attended the SIGCHI Summer School on Computation Interaction in Cambridge, UK
06/2018: I presented our novel calibration technique for wearable eye trackers at ETRA
09/2017: I presented our work on facilitating object detection and recognition through eye gaze at MobileHCI
09/2017: I presented my research ideas at the MobileHCI Doctoral Consortium
06/2017: I attended the UBI Summer School on Augumented Reality for Urban Experiences in Oulu, Finland
03/2017: I presented HandshakAR at Augmunted Human
12/2016: I presented ubiGaze at Siggraph Asia
06/2016: I attended the UBI Summer School on Eye Tracking and Designing Interactions with Eye Movements in Oulu, Finland
10/2015: I presented our indoor localization system at WMNC
09/2015: I attended Ubicomp
09/2015: I attended the Machine Learning Summer School in Kyoto, Japan

I regularly review for conferences such as ETRA, MobileHCI, IoT, WWW and jurnals such as PACM IMWUT or IEEE Sensors. I have also served as a Program Commitee member for IoT and WWW.

Publications

Google Scholar

Mihai Bâce, Sander Staal, Gábor Sörös
Wearable Eye Tracker Calibration at Your Fingertips.
ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications. ETRA '18, ACM, Warsaw, Poland, June 2018
Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
Mihai Bâce, Philippe Schlattner, Vincent Becker, Gábor Sörös
Facilitating Object Detection and Recognition through Eye Gaze.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Object Recognition for Input and Mobile Interaction at the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2017). ACM, Vienna, Austria, September 2017
Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
Vincent Becker, Mihai Bâce, Gábor Sörös
Wearable machine learning for recognizing and controlling smart devices.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Object Recognition for Input and Mobile Interaction at the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2017). ACM, pp. 1–3, Vienna, Austria, September 2017
Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
Mihai Bâce
Augmenting Human Interaction Capabilities with Proximity, Natural Gestures, and Eye Gaze.
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2017). ACM, Vienna, Austria, September 2017
Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
Mihai Bâce, Sander Staal, Gábor Sörös, Giorgio Corbellini
Collocated Multi-user Gestural Interactions with Unmodified Wearable Devices.
Augmented Human Research, Vol. 2, August 2017
Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
Other files: Video
Mihai Bâce, Gábor Sörös, Sander Staal, Giorgio Corbellini
HandshakAR: Wearable Augmented Reality System for Effortless Information Sharing.
Proceedings of the Augmented Human 2017 Conference (AH 2017). ACM, Mountain View, CA, USA, March 2017
Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
Other files: Video
Mihai Bâce, Teemu Leppänen, Argenis Ramirez Gomez, David Gil de Gomez
ubiGaze: Ubiquitous Augmented Reality Messaging Using Gaze Gestures.
SIGGRAPH ASIA 2016 Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications. SA '16, ACM, ISBN 978-1-4503-4551-4, pp. 11:1--11:5, Macau, December 2016
Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
Other files: Video
Mihai Bâce, Yvonne-Anne Pignolet
Lightweight Indoor Localization System.
Proceedings of the 8th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC 2015). Munich, Germany. pp. 160-167, October 2015
Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
Voichita Popescu, Mihai Bâce, Sergiu Nedevschi
Probabilistic Approach for Automated Reasoning for Lane Identification in Intelligent Vehicles.
International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC 2011). Timisoara, Romania. IEEE, ISBN 978-1-4673-0207-4, pp. 255 - 258, September 2011
Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
Voichita Popescu, Mihai Bâce, Sergiu Nedevschi
Lane identification and ego-vehicle accurate global positioning in intersections.
Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2011). Baden-Baden, Germany. IEEE, ISBN 978-1-4577-0890-9, pp. 870 - 875, June 2011
Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)

Supervised student projects

Pursuit Interactions with an RGB Camera in Unconstrained Remote Settings (Lab project), Chenyang Wang, 2019
Visual Attention on Mobile Devices (MSc thesis), Sander Staal, 2018
Gaze-based Camera Focus on Mobile Devices (MSc thesis), Michael Franz, 2018
Head Pose Estimation for Gaze Estimation (MSc thesis), Amirreza Bahreini, 2018
Pursuit-based Interaction on Unmodified Devices (MSc thesis), Alexander Kayed, 2018
Eye Contact Detection on Constrained Devices (BSc thesis), Philipp Schimmelfennig, 2018
Deep Learning for Real-time Gaze Estimation on Mobile Devices (MSc thesis), Erfan Abdi, 2017
Wearable Eye Tracker Calibration (Lab project), Sander Staal, 2017
Automatic Shelf Monitoring with Convolutional Neural Networks (MSc thesis), Carlo Beltrame, 2017
Wearable Eye Tracking on Mobile Devices (BSc thesis), Philippe Schlattner, 2017
Gaze Estimation with Convolutional Neural Networks (Lab project), Andrey Ihantov, 2017
Price Comparison Shopping Assistant on Mobile Devices (BSc thesis), Patrick Huwiler, 2016
Gesture Recognition on Wearable Devices (BSc thesis), Sander Staal, 2016
Bluetooth Indoor Localization - Beacon Placement Strategies (BSc thesis), Frederic Vogel, 2015

Teaching

Distributed Systems (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)
Ubiquitous Computing (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
Smart Systems Seminar (2018)
Ubiquitous Computing Seminar (2015)
Computer Science II for Electrical Engineers (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)