Upcoming thesis presentations
24.05.2012, room: TUAS 3550
16:15 Arto Tolonen: Using Web Analytics for Improving a Web Service
16:15 Sami Meri: Media Experience on Tablet - Towards Affect-Adaptive Application
Welcome!
24.4.2012 Visiting lecture by Professor Erica de Vries on Thu, 26 April
Professor Erica de Vries will give a lecture titled "Learning and training with visualizations: a thought experiment" on Thu 26 April 2012, at 16:00 Tietotekniikan talo, Konemiehentie 2, Hall T2. More information...
23.4.2012 Apply now for the Special Module in Game Design and Production
The module is a unique opportunity to gain insight of the structure of game projects, get familiar with a specific competence area (such as game design and animation) in game production and to gain insight on how different competence areas relate to each other and what kinds of demands different aspects of the game imply to each competence area. See the call for more information, and send your application before 28.5.2012.
12.4.2012 Defence of dissertation in the field of media technology on April 27th, 2012
M. Sc. (Tech.) Mikko Berg will defend the dissertation “Human abilities to perceive, understand, and manage multi-dimensional information with visualizations” on April 27th, 2012. The thesis discusses the issue of facilitating human understanding by developing representation forms adapted to visual system.
12.4.2012 Finland's first computer games professor
Finland will see its first computer games professorship in Aalto University. As a joint Assistant Professor for the Department of Media Technology in the School of Science and for the Department of Media in the School of Art and Design, Doctor of Science and Master of Arts, Perttu Hämäläinen started his five-year appointment on March 29, 2012.
17.2.2012: Call for Media Technology Summer Trainees 2012 (DL 11.3./29.2.2012)
We have several open positions for summer trainees for the year 2012. Application deadlines are February 29th (for two of the positions), or March 11th (for others). See the call for more details.
2.2.2012 Postdoctoral research positions in Media Technology (DL 29.2.2012)
Several (2-5) postdoctoral positions at the Aalto University's Department of Media Technology (http://media.tkk.fi/en/) are open to talented individuals who hold a recent doctorate degree and have high potential for a successful scientific career. The positions are for 2 years, with a continuation option for another term. [More information...]
4.1.2012 Double Master's degree in Digital Media Technology in two years
Study Digital Media Technology (DMT) at the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Master School. You will receive a double Master's degree in two years and specialization in international entrepreneurship. You can study DMT at Aalto, KTH, TU Delft, BME and UCL. Obligatory minor on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E) is included. You will be offered an internship at local industry or research centre. Application period is during 1.1.-15.2.2012. [More information...]
22.12.2011 Doctoral dissertation on Friday, January 13th
M. Sc. (Tech.) Sakari Tervo will defend his dissertation "Localization and tracing of early acoustic reflections in enclosures" on January 13th, 2012 in lecture hall T2, Konemiehentie 2, Espoo. The thesis studies the localization and tracing of early acoustic reflections from room impulse response measurements.
11.11.2011 MIDE Demo Day on Tuesday, November 15th
Experience multitouch tables, smart spaces, and more future electronics at the MIDE Demo Day on November 15th from 12:00 to 15:00 (Saha building, Konemiehentie 1, Otaniemi).
7.11.2011 Doctoral dissertation on Friday, November 18th
M. Sc. (Tech.) Jukka Pätynen will defend his dissertation "A virtual symphony orchestra for studies on concert hall acoustics" on November 18th, 2011 in lecture hall T2, Konemiehentie 2, Espoo. The dissertation studies the use of a loudspeaker orchestra as a research tool in concert hall acoustics. [More information...]
24.10.2011 Tapio Lokki and Mikko Salo receive 2011 Academy of Finland Awards
Two outstanding researchers were recognised at the Academy of Finland’s Science Gala in Helsinki on Thursday 27 October 2011. The Academy of Finland Awards were presented to Academy Research Fellow, Adjunct Professor Tapio Lokki from Aalto University School of Science, and Academy Research Fellow, Adjunct Professor Mikko Salo from the University of Helsinki. Lokki was recognised for the social impact of his work and Salo for his scientific courage.
24.10.2011 IEEE WASPAA Best Student Paper for out Virtual Acoustics team
The paper "Simulation of the violin section sound based on the analysis of orchestra performance" by Jukka Pätynen, Sakari Tervo, and Tapio Lokki (Aalto SCI, Dept. of Media Technology) was selected as the Best Student Paper at the biennial IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA) conference at Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, NY, USA, 16-19 October 2011. There were 176 paper submissions, 86 of which were selected for the conference after a peer-review process. The paper by Pätynen et al. was also a Best Paper Award finalist.
29.9.2011 Doctoral dissertation on Friday 21.10.2011
M.Sc. Stina Westman defends her dissertation "Journalistic Image Access: Description, Categorization and Searching" on Friday, October 21st, 2011 at 12 noon, in the auditorium AS1 (Otaniementie 17). The opponent is Professor Corinne Jörgensen (Florida State University, USA).
7.9.2011 Our researchers appear in the IGDA Finland newsletter 09/2011
Finnish Chapter of the International Game Developers Association discusses the RUIS platform for delevoping and testing 3D user interfaces, developed here at the department. The platform is expected to be released to the public this fall.
19.8.2011 Postdoctoral research positions in media technology (DL 15.9.2011)
1–4 postdoctoral positions at the Aalto University's Department of Media Technology are open to talented individuals who hold a doctorate and have high potential for a successful scientific career. The positions are for 1 to 3 years. More information and application instructions can be found here.
4.4.2011 Visual Media Research Group receives the 2011 Charles E. Ives Journal Award
The Visual Media Research Group of the Department of Media Technology has co-received the IS&T 2011 Charles E. Ives Journal Award for “Full Reference Printed Image Quality: Measurement Framework and Statistical Evaluation,” which appeared in the Journal of Imaging Science and Technology, vol. 54, #1. The paper presents results from DigiQ (2006-2009), a research project conducted in cooperation with LUT Machine Vision and Pattern Recognition Research Group, HU Department of Psychology and TUT Department of Automation Science and Engineering. The Charles E. Ives Award is given in recognition of an outstanding contribution in the area of basic or applied science or engineering published in a Society journal during the preceding calendar year.
30.3.2011 Academic careers at the department
The department of Media Technology is looking for applicants for one Tenure Track (Professor) and 1–3 postdoctoral (researcher) positions. The research themes vary from digital imaging to mathematical modelling of room acoustics to web technologies and semantic web.
31.1.2011 Doctoral dissertation on Friday 4.2.2011
Mikko Pohja's dissertation will be organized on Friday 4.2.2011 at 12 in T-building Hall T2 (Konemiehentie 2, Espoo). The topic of the thesis is "Web Application User Interface Technologies".
7.12.2010 SmartMuseum wins @ World Summit Award Mobile 2010
The SmartMuseum system, partly developed by the SeCo group at our department, has won a World Summit Award Mobile 2010 award in the "m-Tourism and Culture" category. The application allows visitors to use their Smartphone or PDA in place of expensive audio tours on bespoken hardware. Users simply register their mobile device and receive a full-featured audio-video experience of the museum or site.
22.11.2010 Doctoral dissertation and a talk 26.11.2010
Eetu Mäkelä defends his dissertation on View-Based User Interfaces for the Semantic Web on Friday, the 26th of november at 12 noon at the TUAS building (Otaniementie 17, Espoo), auditorium TU2.
Preceding the dissertation, the opponent, professor Lora Aroyo (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) will give a guest lecture at the same auditorium at 10:15-11:00 on Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web.
1.11.2010 Mobile augmented reality course
Prof. Mark Billinghurst from HITLab NZ is giving a course on mobile augmented reality (T-111.5700, 1-3 cr) on the second term. The number of participants is limited to 15.
28.10.2010 Open Data / Linked Open Data is here!
Participate the seminar and get on board to the open data movement! Visiting lecturers and hands on work! Possible goal in apps4Finland 2011 -competition.
First lecture on Wednesday 3.11 in TUAS building, room 2534-2535. Course Facebook group (In Finnish).
11.10.2010 RUIS (Reality-based User Interface System)
Do you want to create fun applications that take advantage of the latest state-of-the-art game controllers, even without a background in computers or programming? Check out the new RUIS platform for next generation user interfaces, developed by our researchers Tuukka Takala and Roberto Pugliese.
18.8.2010 Cloud computing master's thesis position available in Nokia Service's early technology validation
25.5.2010 Doctoral dissertations on June 7th and 9th
Monday 7.6.2010: Tuukka Ruotsalo: "Methods and applications for ontology-based recommender systems"
Wednesday 9.6.2010: Markus Holi: "Crisp, Fuzzy, and Probabilistic Faceted Semantic Search"
Both dissertations will be held at the AS1 hall (TUAS building), at 12:00 (noon).
11.1.2010 Doctoral dissertation and a talk 23.4.2010
Tomi Kauppinen defends his dissertation "Methods for Creating and Using Geospatio-temporal Semantic Web" in the TUAS building, hall AS2 on Friday, April 23rd, at 12:00.
The opponent, prof. Werner Kuhn, will give a talk earlier on the same day on the subject "Sensors everywhere - but what are they sensing? Ontology and the sensor web" in the nearby lecture hall TU1, from 10:15 to 11:00.
11.1.2010 Doctoral dissertation and a talk
Samuel Siltanen defends his dissertation "Efficient Physics-Based Room-Acoustics Modeling and Auralization" in the Computer Science building, hall T2 on Friday, January 15th, at 12:00.
Please note, that the opponent, Prof. Peter Svensson, will give a talk on Audio research at NTNU (45 min) in the Odeion hall (TUAS building) at 15.00 on Thursday, January 14th.
3.12.2009 Doctoral dissertations at ME department
- 18.12.2009 at 12:00, TUAS building:
Hussain Al-Rubaiey: "The Role of Paper and Process Technologies for Mechanisms and Image Quality in Digital Electrophotography" - 10.12.2009 at 12:00, TKK main building / hall E:
Antti Nurminen: "Mobile Three-Dimensional City Maps" - 4.12.2009 at 12:00, Computer Science building / hall T1:
Sampo Vesa: "Studies on Binaural and Monaural Signal Analysis - Methods and Applications" - 20.11.2009 at 12:00, Computer Science building / hall T2:
Elina Vartiainen: "Design Implications for Mobile User Interfaces of Internet Services"
30.10.2009 Seminar course (T-111.7590, 6 cr) on Augmented reality
The seminar will be held on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 16:15-18 in lecture hall T3 (T-building), beginning on November 3, 2009 by our visiting professor Mark Billinghurst (HIT Lab NZ, Univ. of Canterbury). The number of active participants is limited, so take a look at the course web pages for more information and course outline.
14.11.2008 "Blender meets Minority Report"
The HandsOn project is researching new methods in interacting with a 3D modeling/animation software. Blender, the open source 3D content creation suite, has been used as the test platform. BlenderNation has published a story in their 3D news section about the developments in the project so far.
16.10.2008 New site for the department
Our department finally got a website! Some things, like publications, are still at the old laboratories' pages, but they will eventually find their way here... Old pages of the Laboratory of Media Technology have been archived.
