- Keynote Speakers
- Denis Baggi
- Title
- MusicXML: An IEEE Standard for Symbolic Music
- Time
- Wednesday, 10:50-11:30
- Abstract
- The new IEEE Standard for the representation of music, and related multimedia events, with symbols using XML is presented. The standard allows the realization of applications that transform passive music listening (with WAV, MP3, etc.) into an active adventure, a navigational experience with synchronized images, video, texts, hypertexts, score viewing, musicological analysis and exploration. Such applications may run on any device with a screen, including Playstations, portable music players, cellular phones and the like. A few demonstrations will be given to show the power of the standard. The project has been endorsed by the Japanese Secretariat of the Global Research Program Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, www.ims.org.
- Title
- Understanding Jazz and the Structure of Swing
- Time
- Thursday, 11:40-12:20
- Abstract
- In the musical art often referred to as (Afro-American) jazz, the practitioner does not necessarily pay attention to creating a beautiful melody, a complex harmony, an intricate rhythm pattern, but is more interested in the rendition of extra-musical elements, which are not objectified because they cannot be annotated on a music score. Such elements can consist of rhythmic shifts, accents, special sonorities, slurs, etc., often collectively called swing. Thus, jazz is by its nature always improvised, even when the performer reads a score, because swing can only be created at the moment and glorifies the instant. To maximize swing, jazz musicians have created improvisational structures that do not depend on harmony, melody, meter, tempo, but which can be instantly recognized, and which traverse the whole history of this art. Hence, jazz appreciation involves the recognition of such structures, through which to understand the message of the performer. The lecture will describe a multimedia system (a published book in Italian, unpublished in English, with CD-ROM) which, thanks to about 500 musical examples, explains such structures, from elements of tonal harmony and the simple 12-bar blues to the evolution of modal and unstructured free jazz, passing through original jazz compositions and amusing curiosities.
- Bio
- Denis L. Baggi obtained the diploma in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland, and the Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley with a thesis in Artificial Intelligence and Musicology. He was a faculty member at the Polytechnic Institute of New York, the City University of New York and the University of California, and a research scientist at the AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories and at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley. He also served as research manager in Swiss industry and as programmer for financial analysis. He is the founder of the Technical Committee on Computer Generated Music in the IEEE CS, where he is currently developing a standard to represent music with XML symbols. Presently, he is a member of the faculty at the Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera italiana near Lugano, Switzerland.
- Hiroyuki Hase
- Title
- Understanding of Colored Media
- Time
- Wednesday, 10:10-10:50
- Abstract
- We see a lot of colored media in daily life, such as magazines, books, posters, advertisements, etc. They are made attractively for us. Most indubitable information written on them seems to be characters which do not include ambiguity. Other information like pictures, figures are uncertain information and they are accepted in different feeling depending on person. Therefore if those characters can be recognized by machine, it becomes a kind of intelligent function for an autonomous robot or a navigation system. However, there are some problems to realize such an intelligent system. Firstly, nobody knows whether characters exist or not. Secondly, character color is unknown. Thirdly, a string of characters may not be always the normal alignment. These problems include serious difficulty comparing with the ordinary character recognition scheme. I will introduce some related researches on understanding such colored media. First of all, color segmentation method as preprocessing is needed, then some algorithms for the extraction of character strings from colored media are presented. Lastly, these colored characters are sometimes modified in font, shape, alignment. In this paper, new effective character recognition method will be presented.
- Bio
- Hiroyuki Hase received his Ph.D degree from Tohoku University in 1989. From 1975 to 1989, he was an Asistant in the Department of Electronics and Information Engineering at Toyama University. From 1989 to 1993, he was a Lecturer in the same department. From 1993 to 2003, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Intellectual Information Systems Engineering at Toyama University. Since April 2003, he has been a Professor of the Graduate School of Information Science, University of Fukui. His current research interests are document image analysis, character recognition, and facial expression analysis. He is a member of the Information Processing Society of Japan, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers, the Institute of Image Electronics Engineers of Japan and the IEEE Computer Society.
- Aaron E. Walsh
- Title
- The Media Grid: A Public Utility for Digital Media
- Time
- Tuesday, 14:20-15:00
- Abstract
-
The Media Grid is a public utility that provides digital media
delivery, storage and processing (compute) services for a new
generation of networked applications. Built using Internet and Web
standards, the Media Grid combines Quality of Service (QoS) and
broadcast features with distributed parallel processing capabilities.
Together these features create a unique software development platform
designed specifically for networked applications that produce and
consume massive quantities of digital media. As an open and
extensible software development and delivery platform,
the Media Grid is designed to enable a wide range of applications not possible with
the traditional Internet and World Wide Web. Applications enabled by
the Media Grid include: Immersive Education; on-demand digital cinema
and interactive movies; distributed film and movie rendering; truly
immersive multiplayer games and virtual reality; real-time
visualization of complex data (weather, medical, engineering, and so
forth); telepresence and telemedicine (remote surgery, medical
imaging, drug design, etc.); vehicle and aircraft design and
simulation; and similar high-performance media applications.
This lecture will provide attendees with an introduction to grids and grid computing, and explain how open, international standards enable the Media Grid to be a global grid of grids that anyone can use. Real-world Media Grid demonstrations include film and video rendering, streaming video and games, virtual reality, and Immersive Education.
- Bio
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As President and CEO of Mantis Development Corporation, a Boston-based software development firm specializing in advanced media and network technologies, Aaron directed the company he co-founded in 1992 from inception until late 1997. In 1997 he became Chairman of the firm. In 2003 he founded Mantis Development Corps--a global network of several hundred elite technology inventors, researchers, software developers, and content authors--through which he directed the emerging Media Grid technology groups through 2005. In 2005 he founded the Grid Institute to standardize and commercialize the Media Grid. In 2007 Walsh was named one of the forty most innovative people in the Information Technology (IT) industry by Computerworld, the premier source of news and analysis for the IT industry. Walsh received the prestigious national award in recognition for his pioneering work on the Media Grid and Immersive Education, which are recognized as "...innovative, promising technologies which hold the potential to significantly affect society in the near future."
An international best-selling technology author, Aaron is active in the International Standards community as founding Chair of the Web3D Consortium (Web3DC) Universal Media Working Group, founding Chair of the Web3D-MPEG Working Group responsible for the convergence of Web3D and Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) technology, Co-Chair of the Web3D Consortium's Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Task Group, and Web3D Liaison to MPEG and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). He teaches at Boston College, conducts related workshops and lectures at industry conferences, holds United States patents for modern graphical user interfaces for local and Internet information reference and retrieval, and has patents pending for network caching techniques and related distributed computing processes.
- Suzanne Weghorst
- Title
- RimSim and JITC3: Visualization Tools for Collaborative Emergency Management
- Time
- Tuesday, 15:00-15:40
- Abstract
- The University of Washington is leading one of five Regional Visualization and Analytics Centers sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The UW, called PARVAC (Pacific Rim Visualization and Analytics Center), is focused on new visualization tools for preparation and response to safety and security threats in communities around the Pacific Rim. RimSim is a simulation platform for collaborative planning and training that incorporates threat models and response asset optimization algorithms. JITC3 (Just-in-Time Command Center) uses augmented reality technology to provide a field-based situation awareness display that communicates with GPS-enabled mobile devices for data uploading and command communications. Both technologies will be demonstrated during this presentation.
- Bio
- Suzanne Weghorst is a senior principal research scientist and Director of the Human Interface Technology Laboratory (HIT Lab) at the University of Washington. She has published widely in the field of human-computer interaction, with a particular emphasis on virtual reality and mixed reality technology and applications. Weghorst is currently the co-Director of PARVAC and project lead for development of RimSim. In addition to situation awareness displays, her other recent areas of interest include surgical simulation, therapeutic applications of virtual and augmented reality, augmented molecular structure visualization, and devices for omni-directional movement in virtual environments.
- Denis Baggi
- Other Sessions
- UBIC Demonstration Session
- Demonstrations
- Spatial Audio, Stereography, Panoramic Imaging and SQTVR (stereo QTVR), Mobile Computing
- Time
- Tuesday, 10:40-11:40
- Location
- UBIC 3D Theater
- Spatial Media Group Lab Demonstration Session
- Demonstrations
- Schaire [for `shared chair'] Internet Chair: Dual Driver Fire Truck Simulator; Information Furniture; SIP-controlled narrowcasting
- Time
- Wednesday, 16:40-17:40
- Location
- Spatial Media Group, Computer Arts Lab.: 328-E, F (Research Quadrangles)
- Roman Durikovic
- Title
- Metrics for Electronic Data Representation into the Audio Space
- Time
- Wednesday, 16:00-16:20
- Abstract
- We discuss the representations of the electronic data, especially content of the web pages, into the audio space. We define two metrics usable for comparing two distinct audio representations. First metric is connected with data changes perception by reading users. Changes in the web page that are not important for the reader comparing to the previous version are called small changes on the web page. Changes with higher importance value for reader are called huge changes. Ability to catch relevant changes in source data document by audio space representation is important measurable attribute for users reading these data. This attribute is called web change perception for web pages. First, we describe evaluation of the web change perception and next we are measuring sound perception of these representations. The applications of the metric are in tunning interfaces for representing web pages into the audio space.
- CIT E-1 Session: Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality
- Contents
- (Please refer to CIT Program.)
- Time
- Tuesday, 11:50-13:10
- UBIC Demonstration Session
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