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Multimedia Systems Department
Gdańsk University of Technology

Awards of Ministry of Science and Higher Education

The Multimedia Systems Department was awarded with 4 diplomas of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. The ceremony was held on 8th March 2010 in the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw. The three diplomas were presented for the projects distinguished at various international trade fairs and exhibitions of inventions:

Computer Aroma Interface;
Gesture-based Computer Control System;
Multimodal Interface to Control a Computer Using Gestures of the Lips and Tongue

The fourth diploma was for the particular activity in the promotion of inventions abroad.

9.03.2010

Safety and equity as a policy of European Union

Prof. Czyzewski together with his co-workers presented developed multimodal interfaces for impaired people at the conference Safety and equity as a policy of European Union which was organised in the Owinska eye-sight impaired students care center (near Poznan). The new technological achievements were received very warmly by the audience. The President of the European Parliament, Prof. Jerzy Buzek who participated in the conference congratulated prof. Czyzewski and his team of researchers.

14.12.2009

Awards at Brussels Innova 2009 exhibition

On 18th-21th November 2009 in Brussels, the International Exhibition of Innovation, Research and New Technologies BRUSSELS INNOVA 2009 took place. Our Multimedia Systems Department presented two inventions: the Computer Aroma Interface and the Gesture-based Computer Control System. Both inventions were awarded with Gold Medals with Mention.

23.11.2009

European Innovation Award for Prof. Andrzej Czyżewski

The Cross of the European Order of Innovation was presented to Prof. Andrzej Czyżewski in Brussels on 20 November 2009, in the Saint-Josse-ten-Noode Brussels Town Hall for his achievements in developing innovative multimedia technologies.

23.11.2009

Prof. Bożena Kostek is a Vice President of the Audio Engineering Society

Prof. Bożena Kostek - Vice President of the AES

Prof. Bozena Kostek was nominated and then elected to two-year term (2009-2011) as Vice President of the Audio Engineering Society. She took this responsibility starting from October 23rd 2009.

27.10.2009

Piotr Szczuko awarded for his Ph.D. Thesis

Mr Piotr Szczuko, PhD, has obtained the Prize of Prime Minister for his PhD dissertation entitled Application of Fuzzy Rules in Computer Character Animation. The dissertation was advised by Bożena Kostek, Prof., D.Sc., Eng., and was conducted in the Multimedia Systems Department. Practical result of this work is an animation aiding system, that can be utilized in applications with animated characters, motion data compression, educational tools enforcing speech development, control of humanoid robots, or modern animated user interfaces. More details related to this work are available at: Animation Aiding System.

20.10.2009

Three nominations and the Gold Medal of the Poznan International Fair for Multimedia Systems Department

During the Poznan International Fair that took place on 16th-19th June 2009, and the exhibition Science for the Economy, Multimedia Systems Department was awarded with the Gold Medal of the PIF in the category transfering the results of scientific work to the practical economy. The project awarded with the Gold Medal was the multimetia computer interface called the Lip-mouse, and it will be implemented by the international firm Young Digital Planet, based in Gdansk.

19.06.2009

Multimodal interfaces awarded in the Concours Lepine competition

New multimodal interfaces developed in GUT Multimedia System Department were awarded in the Concours Lepine competition. The gold medal was adjudged for the "Lipmouse" multimodal interface and the silver medal for the special "Smart Pen" to be used for training in case of dysgraphia problems.
The Concours Lepine is a part of the Foire de Paris - one of the greatest industrial exhibitions in Europe. This year, the competition was held from 30 April to 10 May. More than 500 innovations were presented during the exhibition.

18.05.2009

EUROPOLTECH 2009

Multimedia System Department demonstrated its "Anti-Crime and Anti-Terrorism Distributed System Employing Multimedia and Teleinformation Technologies" on Europoltech Technology Fair (April 22-24, 2009). The system was awarded The SUPERNOWOCZESNY 2009 (SUPERMODERN) statue in a competition for the greatest technology advances.

The system utilizes new algorithms for analyzing events in the video stream acquired from monitoring cameras and microphones. It’s a new generation of monitoring system based on cost-effective and scalable infrastructure of node stations, ready to be installed in any point of city agglomeration. Though data fusion analysis it is determined which event is potentially dangerous in order to alert security services. A communication software enables an effective multimedia communication using handheld PDA devices. A GIS-based solution allows positioning any object tracked by the monitoring cameras on the city numerical maps.

24.04.2009

Award of Ministry of Science and Higher Education

The Multimedia Systems Department was awarded with the cup, 3 diplomas and a congratulation letter of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for the projects distinguished at various international trade fairs and exhibitions of inventions. The ceremony was held on 9th March 2009 in the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw. The prize-winner solutions were:

Multimedia Noise Monitoring System
Multimedia system of estimating noise impact on hearing using teleinformatic means
Mobile multimedia hearing and speech screening systems for PDA class devices.

The last project was developed in a co-operation with the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing in Warsaw.

11.03.2009

Gold Medal of the Polish Academy of Success for Prof. Andrzej Czyzewski

On Saturday 24th Jan 2009, the ceremony of handing in honorary awards of the Oscars of Polish Business was held in the main assembly hall of the Royal Palace in Warsaw. Oscar laureates, ambassadors accredited in Poland, representatives of the Polish President and Prime Minister as well as special guests from cultural, scientific and economic communities, all took part in the celebrity. The honorary award of the "Oscar of Polish Business" was granted to Toomas Hendrik Ilves - President of Estonia. Gold Medals of the Polish Academy of Success went to professor Ryszard Tadeusiewicz from the University of Science and Technology (Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza Kraków) and to professor Andrzej Czyżewski from the Gdańsk University of Technology (Politechnika Gdańska) for their research accomplishments and exceptional dedication to the implementation of scientific research results in practice.

26.01.2009

PERFORM project seminar

On Friday 5th Dec 2008 a seminar concerning the Perform EU project was held in the Multimedia Systems Department, hosting a special guest - dr Jaroslaw Slawek - the chairman of the Polish Neurological Society (Section of the Extrapyramidal System Disorders).

During the seminar, the project's aims, partners involved, schedules, as well as the future PERFORM system architecture were presented. Additionally, the Multimedia Systems Department's tasks within the project were presented in details, including: the multimodal interfaces, recordings and classification of biomedical signals as well as intelligent processing of the biomedical signals.

The seminar started a discussion that will be continued within future collaboration activities.

12.12.2008

Award in the "Open Door" competition

On 26th November 2008 in The University of Warsaw Library, Piotr Odya, who works at the Multimedia Systems Department, received the diploma in the "Open Door" competition which was organized by National Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Fund. Piotr Odya was awarded for his Doctoral dissertation "Examination and application of auditory feedback loop modification methods".