Internet Media Group

Congratulations to Leonardo who presented his PhD activity (poster here) of the last three years at Politecnico during the PhD Poster Day on Oct 19, 2017.

Dr. Enrico Masala will give the talk “Optimized Strategies for Real-Time Multimedia Communications from Mobile Devices” on Tuesday May 23, 2017, 15:30, at the Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, Italy, hosted by Dr. Davide Quaglia. More details are available at the Department website.

The PhD course “Multimedia Communications: Technological Advances and Social Implications” is scheduled to start on Feb 3, 2017. All PhD students can participate (including “XXXII ciclo” that started Nov 1, 2016). Three members of our research group (Enrico Masala, Antonio Servetti, Juan Carlos De Martin) will cover all the course topics, as better specified in the course webpage.

Friday, Sep 23, 2016 in Montreal, Canada, Leonardo Favario will present our work at the IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP).

The papers are available in the publications section of this site

Recently, Leonardo presented the work “Seamless Cross-Platform Integration of Educational Resources for Improved Learning Experiences” at the IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE) 2015, El Paso, Texas, in October 2015. Also, a new paper has been accepted at IEEE EDUCON 2016, titled “Integrating a Remote Laboratory System in an Online Learning Environment”, that will be presented in April 2016 in Abu Dhabi. More information in the publications section of this website.

Monday, Jun 29, 2015 and Thu Jul 2, 2015, in Torino, Italy, Enrico Masala will present two works at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo which will be held from Jun 29 to Jul 3, 2015, for the first time in Italy and in Torino.

The papers are available in the publications section of this site

A number of new theses are available here. However, note that we are open to discuss other ideas and proposals from students. General information about our thesis can be found at this page.

Dr. Enrico Masala will give the talk “HTTP-based streaming techniques and their optimization” on Wednesday Mar 4, 2015, 14:15, at the Aalto Science Institute (AScI), Aalto University, Finland, hosted by prof. J. K. Nurminen. More details are available at the AScI website. The talk is given in the context of a visit funded by the AScI.

The Internet Media Group is delighted to announce the Lectio Magistralis of prof. Meo about “Fifty years of a big love” (in Italian). Date and location: Jan 26, 2015, 11 am. Control and Computer Engineering Department, Politecnico di Torino, floor 5, conference room “Luigi Ciminiera”. More information here.

Seminar by prof. Andrea Valle  “Sound Synthesis and Algorithmic Composition: the SuperCollider development environment” (Dec 10, 2014, 14:30, room 2T), as part of the “Processing of Digital Audio” course.

Detailed information (Italian only):

Summary
Il seminario intende fornire una panoramica introduttiva alla sintesi del segnale audio in tempo reale e alla composizione/improvvisazione con il calcolatore per applicazioni musicali. A tal fine verrà presentato l’ambiente open source SuperCollider.

Biography
Ricercatore dell’Università di Torino presso il CIRMA (Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca sulla Multimedialità e l’Audiovisivo) il prof. Andrea Valle insegna “Audiovisione e Multimedialità” per i corsi di laurea del DAMS (Department of Fine Arts, Music and Performing Arts).
Valle è autore di alcuni libri tra cui ricordiamo:
“Audio e Multimedia” (Apogeo) libro di testo del corso di Elaborazione dell’Audio Digitale al Politecnico di Torino
“Manuale italiano di SuperCollider” (online http://www.fonurgia.unito.it/andrea/sw/sc/prd_tSCIRMA_scr.pdf)