Date: 16 November 2011
Time: 12.30-13.30
Place: NJ14 

Music for the lute and its relatives played a central role in the European cultural landscape for centuries until the rise of the piano in the late 18th Century saw its decline. That the music remains little known and under-represented in music histories is perhaps due almost entirely to its notation — the tablatures used are very different to the staff notation used for most other music of the time.

In my talk, I introduce the music and its notation and describe a proposed project to use Optical Music Recognition technologies currently being developed to digitise the complete printed lute music holdings of several libraries. Amateur lutenists and enthusiasts would then be recruited to correct and edit the resulting collection online, resulting in a large, searchable resource, which could make the music available in forms that are more accessible to non-specialists or that are capable of machine-analysis.

Bio
David Lewis trained as a historical musicologist at Kings College, London. He has since specialised in developing computer tools for musicologists or musicians. He is currently based at the Birmingham Conservatoire, where he is developing a score editor and technical infrastructure for a new complete edition and translation of the theoretical works of Johannes Tinctoris (building on earlymusictheory.org/tinctoris/tinctoris.html), and at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he has worked on a lute music corpus (www.ecolm.org) and a general-purpose music-processing framework called AMusE. He is also a doctoral student in the Goldsmiths computing department.

Date: 9 November 2011
Time: 12.30-13.30
Place: NJ14 4-205

[BIZ] Business Interaction Zquad supports your cooperation with private companies in Nordjylland from the first day. All time spend on preparation, during meetings or in the aftermath will qualify for a 50% bonus on your time tracking record. If you want to apply for EU funding in cooperation with private companies (at least one of them from Nordjylland) all your activities right up to the day the funding is granted will qualify. When you are running a student course with with company visits or business guest speakers you will qualify and also when you are the supervisor for student groups cooperating with companies. And these activities are just a few examples.  [BIZ] already has hours allocated for you, so you do not have to do a lot of paperwork to get started, – an initial registration and a monthly statement of the hours used on the activities and that´s it. Come to this meeting and get all the details needed to get started.

Date: 2 November 2011
Time: 12.30-13.30
Place: NJ14 3-228 (Las Vegas)

The talk will present our current activities where we are analyzing the occupancy of 10 sports arenas in Aalborg using a thermal camera. The technical heart of the system is based on a master thesis (by Rikke and Anders). First image processing is used to segment potential human objects. Next, these objects are analysed to figure out if they are noise, a single human or multiple humans grouped together. In the latter case, an un-grouping is performed to isolate individuals. Positions are mapped to the floor’s coordinate system and accumulated over time to give an average occupancy over time.

We have recently received funding to continue this work the next three years. The talk will therefore also present the ambition for the future. More info can be found here: http://www.create.aau.dk/bbh/

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