Winter-school
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Mar. 26, 2020Participants and teachers at the NordicSMC Winter school. The participants came from all over the world to learn more about sound and motion analysis.
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Mar. 26, 2020RITMO's deputy director Alexander Refsum Jensenius welcomes the participants for the NordicSMC Winter School. The introduction was followed by speed presentations by all participants. They each got 1 minute and 1 slide to talk about their background and research.
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Mar. 26, 2020Lab engineer Kayla Burnim explains how the Qualisys motion capture system in the fourMs lab works.
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Mar. 26, 2020The fourMs lab has state-of-the-art facilities for motion capture and physiological measurements. The winter school participants learned about how the lab has been set up to allow for proper synchronization between the different systems and devices.
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Mar. 26, 2020RITMO postdoctoral fellow Alejandro Blenkmann presents the EEG laboratories, and how the neuroscience researchers prepare their experiments.
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Mar. 26, 2020Professor Bruno Laeng presents the eye tracking laboratories, and the technique he has specialised in: pupillometry. With this method it is possible to investigate the size of the eye's pupil and how it responds to various stimuli.
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Mar. 26, 2020From the winter school reception dinner, during which the participants and teachers could get to know each other better.
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Mar. 26, 2020RITMO researcher Olivier Lartillot presents his Matlab toolboxes for music analysis. MIR Toolbox is a powerful tool for performing various types of music information retrieval tasks. MiningSuite is a comprehensive library for analysing different types of music-related signals.
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Mar. 26, 2020Prior to coming to Oslo, all participants completed the free online course Music Moves, which has been developed at UiO. So they had already started to get to know each other virtually, before physically meeting at RITMO.
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Mar. 26, 2020From one of the coding sessions, during which the participants learned to use different toolboxes developed by the NordicSMC partners.
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Mar. 26, 2020The NordicSMC participants were integrated into the "kitchen and coffee" culture at RITMO. The coffee machine is the heart of RITMO, and where everyone meets.
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Mar. 26, 2020One of the groups engaged in lively discussion during the teamwork. Each group worked intensively on a real-world research problem during the week.
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Mar. 26, 2020A group working on physical modelling of a bowed instrument using motion capture data as input.
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Mar. 26, 2020A group setting up a motion capture experiment focused on exploring the concept of coarticulation — how individual actions are fused together — in piano performance.
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Mar. 26, 2020The group learned that there are a number of things to take into account when performing a motion capture experiment: placement of cameras and markers, calibration, and so on. And afterwards it is necessary to do all the post-processing of the captured data.
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Mar. 26, 2020One of the groups worked with the self-playing guitars developed at RITMO. These are acoustic guitars equipped with sensors, actuators and a small embedded computer.
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Mar. 26, 2020RITMO's administration was vital in making the winter school run smoothly from the beginning to end.
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Mar. 26, 2020On the last day of the winter school, after the final group presentations, we took the metro up to Oslo Winter Park for some skiing.
