NUMEDIART hires a new post-graduate researcher
Dr. Sullivan Hidot has recently joined the NUMEDIART team. He holds a Masters diploma in Mathematics from University of Lille 1 (2003), and a PhD degree in Statistical Pattern Recognitino from University of La Rochelle, L3I laboratory (2007). His recent research focused on statistical and probabilistic approaches applied to motion capture data, applied to the classification, segmentation and behavior analysis of contemporary dance movements. He is also a long-time amateur guitarist.
Call for Participation #5
The numediart board now calls for participation to three short projects (#5.1: MATRIX, #5.2: Méta-crâne and #5.3: Media Cycle), to be held (remotely) from Jan, 5th 2009 to Mar, 31st 2009. This session will involve a one-week workshop in Louvain-la-Neuve. If you want to contribute, please send email to contact(at)numediart.org mentioning which project you want to contribute to, and what kind of expertise you could bring, before Dec, 15th 2008. The number of members is limited to 8 people per project. Participation to the workshop is mandatory. No funding is provided, but no fee is asked for either.
Quarterly Progress Scientific Report #3
The numediart board has just published the Quarterly Progress Scientific Report (QPRS) for the third session of projects, from July 2008 to September 2008. This report covers the following projects: #3.1: Tracking-Dependent and Interactive Video Projection, #3.2: Stylistic Human Gait Modeling, #3.3: Mixed-Phase Violin Synthesis, #3.4: Multimodal Feedback from Robots and Agents in a Storytelling Experiment. Please visit the project pages for more details, results and videos.
Presentation of Year#1 results
On the invitation of the Communauté Française de Belgique (French Speaking Community of Belgium), we will present the projects we have realized in sessions #1-2-3 (with videos and demonstrations), on Friday October 10th, 14h-17h at IMAL asbl (Center for Digital Cultures and Technology, 30 Quai des Charbonnages, 1080 Brussels)
The contents of NUMEDIART projects#4 (to be held from October to December, 2008) will also be exposed.
The afternoon will be concluded by a drink, where you will have the opportunity to discuss with the NUMEDIART team.
NUMEDIART hires two new senior researchers
Riccardo C. Bose holds a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (and an MBA) from Florianopólis - Brazil and has a 5-years industrial experience. He has worked on LED walls system, digital image processing, hardware acquisition and integration (Altera, Xilinx FPGAs, ARM7), distributed processing, Bluetooth, GPRS and telecardiology. His interest is in parallel processing, GPUs, embedded systems, digital image and signal processing, and distributed languages (java EE, CORBA, EJB). Riccardo also has a parallel life as a contemporary dancer.
Xavier Siebert is a physics engineer from ULB, Belgium and holds a PhD in biophysics from the Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, USA). His thesis work focused on the determination of the three-dimensional structure of proteins using X-ray crystallography and on molecular dynamics simulations of proteins. He then moved to France to work as a post-doctoral researcher at the CNRS on software development for interfacing X-Ray crystallography and Electron Microscopy. His interest is in applied mathematics and digital image processing.
Call for Participation #4
The numediart board now calls for participation to three short projects defined in the following pages, to be held (remotely) from Sep, 29th 2008 to Dec, 19th 2008. This session will involve a one-week workshop in Mons. If you want to contribute, please send email to contact(at)numediart.org mentioning which project you want to contribute to, and what kind of expertise you could bring, before Sep, 22nd 2008. The number of members is limited to 8 people per project. Participation to the workshop is mandatory. No funding is provided, but no fee is asked for either.
NUMEDIART workshop in Paris
For this third session of NUMEDIART projects, our researchers have spent a full month in Paris, for the eNTERFACE’08 summer workshop.
eNTERFACE workshops are a great opportunity for researchers all over the world to collaborate on short-term projects in the area of multimodal interfaces. This year, eNTERFACE’08 gathered about 78 researchers from 20 countries.
NUMEDIART researchers have co-directed four of the ten projects organized during this workshop :
- Multimodal Communication with Robots and Virtual Agents
- Tracking-dependent and interactive video projection
- Expressive Control of Violin Sounds Based Causal/Anticausal Decomposition
- Stylistic Human Gait Modeling
Quarterly Progress Scientific Report #2
The numediart board has just published the Quarterly Progress Scientific Report (QPRS) for the second session of projects, from April 2008 to June 2008. This report covers the following projects: Visual Path (p04), Breathing for Opera (p05) and Audio Thumbnailing (p06). Please visit the project pages for more details, results and videos.
Numediart at Bains Numériques #3
First, Numediart was invited at the “when culture meets technology” conference, initiated by Philippe Franck (Transcultures) and gathering a number of actors (artists, companies, universities) of the digital arts community in Walloon region.
Second, as a result of the series of collaborative workshops organized by the Réseau Arts Numériques to which Numediart researchers took part, a seminar on captation and analysis of physiological signals in artistic contexts, including three live performances, was organized at Bains Numeriques.
