Multimedia Systems Department, Gdańsk University of Technology
Successes of the Department of Multimedia Systems at NTAV 2026
The 21st Symposium on New Trends in Audio and Video Technology
(NTAV 2026) took place in Wrocław
on 15-17 October 2026. Members of the Sound and Image Engineering Student
Research Club (KNIDiO),
supervised by Dr. Bartłomiej Mróz, won prizes and distinctions
there.
In the audio and video recording competition, the team of Paweł
Szydłowski, Małgorzata Bernat and Jakub Tarczewski won 3rd prize
in category 1 (acoustic recording) for Alien. Sylwester
Rohde received a distinction in category 2 (studio recording)
for The Light.
In the Young Authors Competition, Kamil Sterniuk received a
distinction for his presentation Contactless estimation of
respiratory and cardiac activity from video recordings of
chest micromovements during native- and foreign-language tasks.
The Department was represented at the symposium by Prof. Bożena
Kostek, who gave two talks, and Dr. Bartłomiej Mróz. Talks
presented:
- Bartłomiej Mróz, Higher-order Ambisonics in every browser:
a containerised stack for live 360° streaming
(project page)
- Andrzej Czyżewski, Bożena Kostek, Henryk Skarżyński,
An acoustic-electric speech signal processing model for predicting the
outcomes of partial deafness therapy (project page)
- Dorota Gutowska, Bożena Kostek, Age estimation from speech using fine-tuned
speaker embeddings.
Dr. Mróz also served on the jury of the recording competition and did not take part in
judging the work of the Club's students.
More about the symposium: https://aes.org.pl/ntav2026/
19.10.2026
Bartłomiej Mróz wins 2nd Prize in the Marek Kwiek Competition for Young Acousticians
Dr Bartłomiej Mróz of the Department of Multimedia Systems, ETI Faculty, has
been awarded 2nd Prize in the Marek Kwiek Competition for young acousticians,
held at the 72nd Open Seminar on Acoustics and 39th Symposium on
Hydroacoustics (Acoustics 2026), Krynica Morska, 14-18 September 2026.
The awarded paper, Comparison of Six-Degrees-of-Freedom Rendering
Algorithms for Classical Music Reproduction, presents a perceptual study of
five 6DoF audio rendering algorithms that allow a listener to move freely
through a recorded sound scene in virtual reality. Its main finding is a
dissociation between source localization accuracy and perceived audio quality:
simple interpolation methods were rated on par with the reference system
despite significantly higher localization error.
The conference was organized by the Gdańsk Division of the Polish
Acoustical Society, Gdańsk University of Technology, and the Institute of
Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Sopot.
21.09.2026
AES award for Prof. Bożena Kostek
Prof. Bożena Kostek has received the Board of Governors Award from
the Audio Engineering Society (AES). The award was presented at the 160th AES
Convention in Copenhagen on May 28, 2026.
The Board of Governors Award is presented to AES members who have
rendered exceptional service to the Society. Prof. Bożena Kostek was honored
with this distinction for co-chairing the 158th AES Convention, held in Warsaw,
Poland, in May 2025.
The award was granted by action of the AES Board of Governors and is signed by
Brecht de Man, AES President, and Valerie Tyler, AES Secretary.
2.06.2026
Scientific Conference: Artificial Intelligence in Law and Administration: Opportunities and Challenges
On June 9th 2025, the scientific conference Artificial Intelligence in Law and
Administration: Opportunities and Challenges was held in the Aula of Gdańsk
University of Technology. The conference was attended by representatives of
the central government, including Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of
Digital Affairs Krzysztof Gawkowski, local government representatives, the
judiciary, public administration, and the scientific and business communities.
The conference presented the latest technological solutions based on AI models,
developed by a consortium of the Department of Multimedia Systems at Gdańsk
University of Technology and LEX Secure AI, within the LEX-AIS Court
Support System research project. A practical demonstration of an automatic
speech-to-text transcription system using a sound intensity probe and AI
language models was presented.
The recording of the conference is available on YouTube
(in Polish).
More information on the GUT website
27.07.2025
Presentation during International Conference on Machine Learning
Dr. Eng. Sebastian Cygert, a member of the Department of Multimedia Systems, GUT,
presented his paper at the leading AI conference: the International
Conference on Machine Learning (CORE A*), held in Vancouver, Canada.
The publication focuses on efficient training methods for models in federated
learning, with particular emphasis on model merging techniques.
You can read the paper at the following link:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.04959.
22.07.2025
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