Multimedia Systems Department, Gdańsk University of Technology
Award in the Student 3D Audio Production Competition (S3DAPC)
Bartłomiej Mróz, Ph.D. graduate of the Multimedia Systems Department,
received an honorable mention in the Student 3D Audio Production Competition
(S3DAPC) organized by the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) of
the University of the Arts in Graz (Austria). The awarded works of this year’s
- seventh - edition were presented as part of the
Tonmeistertagung congress
held on November 8-11 in Düsseldorf.
The awarded work is a recording of a musical piece by Jakub Neske titled
Deus Ex Machina, performed by the Academic Choir of Gdansk University of
Technology. In their evaluation of the recording, the judges emphasized the
clarity of the sound, as well as the interesting use of space, not only by
placing the choir around the listener but also by placing the voices at
different heights.
All the awarded works have been posted on the
competition website.
They can be listened to binaurally with headphones; the web player features
dynamic head tracking via a webcam and allows for 3 or 6 degrees of freedom,
providing a high level of immersion during listening.
22.11.2023
Lider ITS
On 9/10/2023, during the award gala organized as part of the 15th edition
of the Polish ITS Congress in Warsaw, prof. Andrzej Czyzewski and a PG doctoral
student who is an employee of TSTRONIC Co. Ltd., Andrzej Sroczynski were
awarded the title of Leader of Intelligent Motor Transport for their
achievement in this field. Representatives of the award committee presented
laureates with diplomas and statuettes for published research results on the
application of artificial intelligence in previously developed Intelligent
Road Signs.
13.10.2023
Acknowledgements for Prof. Czyżewski from the Światło foundation
On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Światło (Light) Foundation in
Toruń, prof. Andrzej Czyzewski received thanks and a commemorative plaque for
the long-term cooperation of the Multimedia Systems Department team to create
technical solutions to support communication with people in coma. The result
of this cooperation is implemented devices, including CyberEye, as well as a
number of scientific publications. In recent years, the activities initiated
formerly as a result of cooperation between PG and the “Light” Foundation led
to the establishment of a new Laboratory of Electrophysiology of the Brain and
Mind in the Department, which has obtained several research projects and
cooperates on a daily basis with, among others, the American Mayo Clinic.
13.10.2023
ICCV award
Our reseacher Sebastian Cygert, in a joint effort with IDEAS NCBR and Computer
Vision Center in Barcelona, won 3rd place at Test-time adaptation challenge in
the Visual Continual Learning workshop at the ICCV 2023 conference in Paris,
and received the innovation award.
More information:
abstract and workshop.
10.10.2023
Cooperation with the French research group Centre for Visual Computing
As part of the IDUB AURUM Supporting International program
Research Team Building, the research group of Dr. Daniel Węsierski
will establish scientific cooperation with Professor Hugues Talbot from the Centre for Visual
Computing of the CentraleSupelec Paris university. The scientific goal of the cooperation
will be the development of methods for the semantic segmentation of dental images
in the presence of noisy labels.
20.02.2023
IEEE medal for Prof. Bożena Kostek
Prof. Bozena Kostek received the 50th Anniversary Medal of the Polish Section
(PS) of the IEEE in recognition of many years of activity, contributing to the
development of the Section and expansion of its activities.
14.12.2022
Award for Ph.D. student, B. Mroz
Bartłomiej Mróz, a Ph.D. student at the Multimedia Systems Department, won the
first prize in the recording competition held as part of the 19th Symposium on
New Trends in Audio and Video, NTAV 2022. The symposium was held on October
13-15 in Wrocław. The awarded recording is the 20th-century piece The Rite of
Spring by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky in a version for four-hands
for piano. Two parts from Act I, entitled Adoration of the Earth, were
presented − namely The Augurs Of Spring, Dances Of The Young Girls and
Ritual of Abduction.
The performers were pianists from the Gdańsk Academy of Music − Mikołaj
Sikała and Adam Piórkowski. The recording session took place in the Auditorium
of the Gdańsk University of Technology in August 2020 on a Steinway & Sons
concert piano. A part of this recording was used in Mikołaj Sikała's doctoral
dissertation, defended in 2022.
An excerpt from the presented recording is available
here.
17.10.2022
Prof. Kostek received the Distinguished Service Medal Award from the Audio Engineering Society
Prof. Bożena Kostek received the Distinguished Service Award. The citation
for Prof. Kostek's award reads as follows: "In recognition of more than thirty
years of dedicated service to the Society as Section officer, Governor, three
times as a Vice President, and as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the
Audio Engineering Society from 2011 to 2020”. The award was announced at the
Opening ceremony by Prof. Jonathan Wyner, AES President.
10.06.2021
Prof. Kostek becomes ASA Fellow
Prof. Bożena Kostek was recently elected Fellow of the Acoustical Society
of America. The citation for Prof. Kostek's Fellowship award reads as follows:
"For contributions to musical acoustics, artificial intelligence, and
education". The award was announced at the Plenary Session and Awards Ceremony
of the 179th Acoustical Society Meeting (Acoustics Virtually Everywhere) on
Wednesday December 9, 2020. The link to this information is available on the ASA website.
10.12.2020
Silver Medal Award of the 149th AES Convention
In October 2020, students from Multimedia Systems Department took part in
the 149th Audio Engineering Society Convention, held in New York. During the
Convention, Damian Koszewski, the Ph.D. student from the Multimedia Systems
Department and the only Pole in the final, was awarded a silver medal in the
Student Recording Competition in category Audio: Modern Studio.
17.11.2020
Awards at the NTAV 2020 conference
On October 15th 2020, the 18th International Symposium of Novelties in Audio
and Video Technology took place. During the conference, employees, PhD
candidates and students of the Multimedia Systems Departament presented 4
papers. The paper entitled Comparison of music genre recognition accuracy
with the use of artificial neural networks and varied types of the input data
prepared by the team composed of Maciej Blaszke, Damian Koszewski, and Bożena
Kostek, received the award of the Polish Acoustic Society for the best
conference paper. An honourable mention went to the paper entitled Automatic
generation of musical playlists, prepared by the team consisting of Kamila
Pietrusińska, Adam Kurowski, and Bożena Kostek.
19.10.2020
Gold Medal Award of the 148th Virtual Vienna AES Convention
On June 2-5, 2020, students from Multimedia Systems Department took part in
the 148th, the 1st virtual, Convention of Audio Engineering Society held in
Vienna. During the Convention, Damian Koszewski, the Ph.D. student from the
Multimedia Systems Department, was awarded a gold medal in the Student
Recording Competition in category Audio: Modern Studio.
17.06.2020
Dr Jan Cimbalnik joins the BME Lab
Dr. Jan Cimbalnik from the International Clinical Research Center (ICRC) in
Brno, Czech Republic, will be joining our BME lab in Gdansk as one of the
laureates of prestigious ULAM program grants from the Polish National Agency
for Academic Exchange (NAWA).
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2.10.2019
Prof. Ian Corbett visits MSD
At the beginning of June 2019, Professor Ian Corbett, worldwide known audio
engineer (Audio Engineering & Music Technology), was invited by the Multimedia
Systems Department. During his visit, Prof. Corbett conducted several lectures
for students interested in audio and recording technology and he led a session
of Recording Critiques. During his lectures, students were able to learn about
the fundamentals of audio engineers’ work and got to know how to improve their
mixing and recording skills.
2.07.2019
KSM Student elected for Student Delegate Assembly
A group of undergaduate and PhD students participated in the 146th Audio
Engineering Society Convention in Dublin. As part of the convention, a
vote was held for the position of vice-chair for Europe and International
Regions in which B.Sc. Kamila Pietrusinska was elected. Kamila will hold
office in the Student Delegate Assembly for the next two years (the first
year as a vice-chair, the second as a chair) representing the Department
of Multimedia Systems on conventions in Europe and the United States.
