Jennifer Telafer Johansen, a 6th semester student at Medialogy CPH was selected among the students volunteers at the IEEE VR 2013 conference, and she participated in the event in Orlando, Florida from March 15th to 21st: http://ieeevr.org/2013/
Francisco Negrin gives talk on April 3rd
Francisco Negrin (http://www.negrin.com/francisco/), an award winning stage director who has been working with major opera houses and pop stars, will give a talk at Medialogy CPH tomorrow April 3rd at 17:30 in the main Auditorium at A.C. Meyers Vænge 15. The talk is entitled:
“Collaborating with media technology creators in theatrical events”.
Bob L. Sturm gets journal paper accepted
Assistant Professor Bob L. Sturm has a paper accepted for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory called On Theorem 10 in “On Polar Polytopes and the Recovery of Sparse Representations”. See more here…
Open House at AAU CPH on March 6th
On Wednesday March 6th we welcome everyone to visit Medialogy CPH as AAU Copenhagen holds its bi-annual Open House. The Open House will take place at the main building in A.C. Meyers Vænge 15, 2450 KBH S from 13:00-18:00. See here for more information about the Open House.
Paper and Poster at Nordic Educational Research Association (NERA) Congress
Evangelia Triantafyllou and Olga Timcenko are presenting a paper and a poster at the Nordic Educational Research Association (NERA) Congress in Reykjavik, Iceland on the 7th-9th of March. The papers are:
Triantafyllou E. and Timcenko O., Bridging The Gap Between Actual And Required Mathematics Background At Undergraduate University Level: A Dynamic And Multimodal Approach, Paper presented at the 41st Nordic Educational Research Association (NERA) Congress, Reykjavik, Iceland, 7-9 March, 2013
Triantafyllou E. and Timcenko O., A dynamic and multimodal tool for learning and teaching of mathematics at undergraduate university level, Poster Presented at the 41st Nordic Educational Research Association (NERA) Congress, Reykjavik, Iceland, 7-9 March, 2013
A full Medialogy session at AES 49 International Conference on Audio for Games
At this years Audio Engineering Society 49th International Conference on Audio for Games, there was a whole session about “Perception of Interactive Audio” involving only Medialogy projects. The Papers that were presented were both from students, PhD students and professors associated with Medialogy CPH:
“Can Interactive Procedural Audio Affect the Motorical Behaviour of Players in Computer Games with Motion Controllers?”
by Niels Bøttcher
“Preliminary Investigation of Self-reported Emotional Responses to Approaching and Receding Footstep Sounds in a Virtual Reality Context”
by Erik Sikström, Niels Christian Nilsson, Rolf Nordahl, and Stefania Serafin
“Auditory Feedback to Improve Navigation in a Maze Game”
by Kevin Dahlstrøm, Nicolai Gajhede, Søren K. Jacobsen, Nicklas S. Jakobsen, Søren Lang, Magnus L. Rasmussen, Erik Sikstrom and Stefania Serafin
“Rhythm-Action Games: The sonic interaction perspective”
by Cumhur Erkut and
Hüseyin Hacihabiboğlu, Informatics Institute, Middle East Technical University
See more about the conference here: http://www.audioforgames.net
Stefania Serafin and Georgios Triantafyllidis organizes special session at IEEE 2013 DSP Conference
Medialogy professors Stefania Serafin and Georgios Triantafyllidis are organizing a special session at the IEEE 2013 DSP Conference. See the call here: DSP2013_SS_audio_haptic_visual_applications.pdf
See more about the conference here: http://dsp2013.dspconferences.org
Professor Stefania Serafin invited keynote at HCI Korea
Medialogy professor Stefania Serafin is one of the international invited speakers at the 2013 HCI Korea conference. The complete list of invited keynote speakers can be found here: http://hcikorea.sql.co.kr/2013/01_KeynoteSpeakers.asp
Research Seminar Thursday by Dr. Purwins
Tomorrow Thursday the 7th of Feb from 12-13:00 in Frederikskaj 10A, room 2.164 Dr. Purwins will give a seminar titled: Audio-visual Time Series Analysis: Experiments, Computational Analysis, & Cognitive Models
Abstract:
In this talk, I will give a rough overview of my past work and ongoing preliminary work, highlighting a couple of cases:
1) EEG for Musical Brain-Computer Interface, and for the assessment of 3D television technology;
2) Audio-visual dictionary learning and cognitive and generative modeling.
In 3D cinema, the brain has to compensate the dissociation between accommodation and vergence (the simultaneous movement of both eyes in opposite directions to obtain or maintain single binocular vision), and has to suppress the accommodation reflex in a sudden change of perceived depth. I will present neural signatures for stress induced by sudden depth changes when viewing films in 3D television/cinema (ongoing work). Then I will introduce a statistical cognitively inspired model that learns the rhythmical structure of percussion sequences from an audio example in an unsupervised manner, providing a representation that can be used for modeling musical expectation and the generation of stylistically similar and musically interesting variations. Basing real-time human-computer interaction on cognitively plausible principles makes such a system smarter and more reactive to user actions during interaction/improvisation/performance. Finally, I will discuss possible avenues for future research.
Volvo visits Multimodal Experience Lab
Senior Vice President, R&D, Volvo Cars Peter Mertens visited on January 28th the Multimodal Experience Lab, together with representatives from Volvo Denmark and campus head Lene Lange. The tour included a demonstration of a haptic chair for Volvo cars by Master student Stefano Trento and a demo of the Volvo Intelligent News by 7th semester students Allan Koudal, Michael Rosendahl, Jannik Jepsen and Jóhannes Ingi Árnason. The Volvo delegation was extremely impressed by the results achieved by the students in one semester.