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  • Music Recommendation Based on Multidimensional Description and Similarity Measures . Rekomendacja muzyki na podstawie wielowymiarowego wektora cech i miar podobieństwa

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    This study aims to create an algorithm for assessing the degree to which songs belong to genres defined a priori. Such an algorithm is not aimed at providing unambiguous classification-labelling of songs, but at producing a multidimensional description encompassing all of the defined genres. The algorithm utilized data derived from the most relevant examples belonging to a particular genre of music. For this condition to be met,...

  • Audio Content and Crowdsourcing: A Subjective Quality Evaluation of Radio Programs Streamed Online

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    - Year 2023

    Radio broadcasting has been present in our lives for over 100 years. The transmission of speech and music signals accompanies us from an early age. Broadcasts provide the latest information from home and abroad. They also shape musical tastes and allow many artists to share their creativity. Modern distribution involves transmission over a number of terrestrial systems. The most popular are analog FM (Frequency Modulation) and...

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  • A Device for Measuring Auditory Brainstem Responses to Audio

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    Standard ABR devices use clicks and tone bursts to assess subjects’ hearing in an objective way. A new device was developed that extends the functionality of a standard ABR audiometer by collecting and analyzing auditory brainstem responses (ABR). The developed accessory allows for the use of complex sounds (e.g., speech or music excerpts) as stimuli. Therefore, it is possible to find out how efficiently different types of sounds...

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  • Examining Feature Vector for Phoneme Recognition / Analiza parametrów w kontekście automatycznej klasyfikacji fonemów

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    - Year 2017

    The aim of this paper is to analyze usability of descriptors coming from music information retrieval to the phoneme analysis. The case study presented consists in several steps. First, a short overview of parameters utilized in speech analysis is given. Then, a set of time and frequency domain-based parameters is selected and discussed in the context of stop consonant acoustical characteristics. A toolbox created for this purpose...

  • A commonly-accessible toolchain for live streaming music events with higher-order ambisonic audio and 4k 360 vision

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    - Year 2023

    An immersive live stream is especially interesting in the ongoing development of telepresence tools, especially in the virtual reality (VR) or mixed reality (MR) domain. This paper explores the remote and immersive way of enabling telepresence for the audience to high-fidelity music performance using freely-available and easily-accessible tools. A functional VR live-streaming toolchain, comprising 360 vision and higher-order ambisonic...

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  • A Concept of Automatic Film Color Grading Based on Music Recognition and Evoked Emotions

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    - Year 2019

    The article presents the aspects of the final selection of the color of shots in film production based on the psychology of color. First of all, the elements of color processing, contrast, saturation or white balance in the film shots were presented and the definition of color grading was given. In the second part of the article the analysis of film music was conducted in the context of stimulating appropriate emotions while watching...

  • Comparison of Lithuanian and Polish Consonant Phonemes Based on Acoustic Analysis – Preliminary Results

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    - Archives of Acoustics - Year 2019

    The goal of this research is to find a set of acoustic parameters that are related to differences between Polish and Lithuanian language consonants. In order to identify these differences, an acoustic analysis is performed, and the phoneme sounds are described as the vectors of acoustic parameters. Parameters known from the speech domain as well as those from the music information retrieval area are employed. These parameters are...

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  • New approach for determining the QoS of MP3-coded voice signals in IP networks

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    Present-day IP transport platforms being what they are, it will never be possible to rule out conflicts between the available services. The logical consequence of this assertion is the inevitable conclusion that the quality of service (QoS) must always be quantifiable no matter what. This paper focuses on one method to determine QoS. It defines an innovative, simple model that can evaluate the QoS of MP3-coded voice data transported...

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  • Testing Watermark Robustness against Application of Audio Restoration Algorithms

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    The purpose of this study was to test to what extent watermarks embedded in distorted audio signals are immune to audio restoration algorithm performing. Several restoration routines such as noise reduction, spectrum expansion, clipping or clicks reduction were applied in the online website system. The online service was extended with some copyright protection mechanisms proposed by the authors. They contain low-level music features...

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  • Examining Feature Vector for Phoneme Recognition

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    - Year 2018

    The aim of this paper is to analyze usability of descriptors coming from music information retrieval to the phoneme analysis. The case study presented consists in several steps. First, a short overview of parameters utilized in speech analysis is given. Then, a set of time and frequency domain-based parameters is selected and discussed in the context of stop consonant acoustical characteristics. A toolbox created for this purpose...

  • The influence of sound track on the viewer’s emotions and correction of the color in the film

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    - Year 2018

    The article presents the aspects of the final selection of colors in film production based on the emotions caused by the soundtrack of the film. First, the processing of colors, contrast, saturation and white balance of shots in the film was presented. The definition of color grading is also described, i.e. the color changes in the film's views. In the second part of the article, the soundtracks of the film were analyzed, in particular...

  • Comparative Study of Self-Organizing Maps vs. Subjective Evaluation of Quality of Allophone Pronunciation for Nonnative English Speakers

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    The purpose of this study was to apply Self-Organizing Maps to differentiate between the correct and the incorrect allophone pronunciations and to compare the results with subjective evaluation. Recordings of a list of target words, containing selected allophones of English plosive consonants, the velar nasal and the lateral consonant, were made twice. First, the target words were read from the list by 9 non-native speakers and...

  • Classifying type of vehicles on the basis of data extracted from audio signal characteristics

    The aim of this study is to find and optimize a feature vector for an automatic recognition of the type of vehicles, extracted form an audio signal. First, the influence of weather-based conditions of road surface on spectral characteristic of the audio signal recorded from a passing vehicle in close proximity to the road is discussed. Next, parameterization of the recorded audio signal is performed. For that purpose, the MIRtoolbox,...

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  • Study of preference for surround microphone techniques, used in the recording of choir and instrumental ensemble

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    The aim of this paper is to describe the process of choosing the best surround microphone technique for recording of choir with an instrumental ensemble. First, examples of multichannel microphone techniques including those used in the recording are described. Then, the assumptions and details of music recording in Radio Gdansk Studio are provided as well as the process of mixing of the multichannel recording. The extensive subjective...

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  • Loudness Scaling Test Based on Categorical Perception

    The main goal of this research study is focused on creating a method for loudness scaling based on categorical perception. Its main features, such as: way of testing, calibration procedure for securing reliable results, employing natural test stimuli, etc., are described in the paper and assessed against a procedure that uses 1/2-octave bands of noise (LGOB) for the loudness growth estimation. The Mann-Whitney U-test is employed...

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  • Subjective and Objective Comparative Study of DAB+ Broadcast System

    Broadcasting services seek to optimize their use of bandwidth in order to maximize user’s quality of experience. They aim to transmit high-quality digital speech and music signals at the lowest bitrate. They intend to offer the best quality under available conditions. Due to bandwidth limitations, audio quality is in conflict with the number of transmitted radio programs. This paper analyzes whether the quality of real-time digital...

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  • Multimedia interface using head movements tracking

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    The presented solution supports innovative ways of manipulating computer multimedia content, such as: static images, videos and music clips and others that can be browsed subsequently. The system requires a standard web camera that captures images of the user face. The core of the system is formed by a head movement analyzing algorithm that finds a user face and tracks head movements in real time. Head movements are tracked with...

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  • Influence of the Widespread Use of Corten Plate on the Acoustics of the European Solidarity Centre Building in Gdansk

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    This paper describes the relationship between a strong architectural vision that is difficult to balance, and user expectations in terms of acoustics. The focus is on the use of corten steel as the dominant finishing material on façades and interiors to achieve an expressive, symbolic message through program-based design. The architectural premises justifying the adopted solutions are presented, especially the universality and...

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  • Real and Virtual Instruments in Machine Learning – Training and Comparison of Classification Results

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    The continuous growth of the computing power of processors, as well as the fact that computational clusters can be created from combined machines, allows for increasing the complexity of algorithms that can be trained. The process, however, requires expanding the basis of the training sets. One of the main obstacles in music classification is the lack of high-quality, real-life recording database for every instrument with a variety...

  • Impact of the glazed roof on acoustics of historic interiors

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    - Year 2018

    The paper discusses the adverse acoustic phenomena occurring in the semi-open interiors (courtyards, yards) covered with a glass roof. Particularly negative is the rever-beration noise, which leads to the degradation of the utility functions of the resulting spaces. It involves the drastically reducing the intelligibility of speech, loss of natural sounding of music, problems with the sound system, as well as disturbances in the...

  • Analysis of a caustic formed by a spherical reflector: Impact of a caustic on architectural acoustics

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    Focusing sound in rooms intended for listening to music or speech is an acoustic defect. Design recommendations provide remedial steps to effectively prevent this. However, there is a category of objects of high historical or architectural value in which the sound focus correction is limited or even abandoned. This also applies to indoor or outdoor concert shells, installations for teaching and acoustic presentations, etc. The...

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  • Loudness Scaling Tests in Hearing Problems Detection

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    The number of people using portable audio players has increased significantly over the recent years. This implies the rise in the number of people having hearing loss problems. Therefore, there is a need to find appropriate procedures that simplify the process of the hearing problem detection. Investigations performed show that audiometric tests may not be sufficient to assess hearing in young people. Contrarily, the obtained results...

  • Dobrze jest... być sobą. Spotkanie z Bovską

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    21-11-2019 18:00 - 21-11-2019 20:00

    Zapraszamy na spotkanie z Bovską - wokalistką, autorką albumów Kaktus, Pysk oraz Kęsy.

  • MATCHED FILTER APPROACH FOR MICROSEISMIC SIGNAL PROCESSING OF REAL DATA FROM EAST POMERANIA SHALE GAS

    The microseismic monitoring is a method of monitoring of fracture propagation during hydraulic fracturing (HF)process. An array of several hundred geophones is placed on the surface to record little ground tremors induced by fracturing process. Filtration and summation of signals from geophones is essential to identify and locate fracturing events from underground. Authors propose a method of matched filtering, that is usually...

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  • Comparison of the effectiveness of automatic EEG signal class separation algorithms

    In this paper, an algorithm for automatic brain activity class identification of EEG (electroencephalographic) signals is presented. EEG signals are gathered from seventeen subjects performing one of the three tasks: resting, watching a music video and playing a simple logic game. The methodology applied consists of several steps, namely: signal acquisition, signal processing utilizing z-score normalization, parametrization and...

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  • Sound quality metrics applied to road noise evaluation

    Road noise monitoring systems typically measure sound levels in specific time periods. The more insightful approach suggests to measure also the nature of noise. Sound quality of sounds such as car noise can be objectively evaluated by several parameters. One of them is psychoacoustic annoyance, described by loudness, tone color, and the temporal structure of sound. In this paper the assessment of several sound quality parameters, such...

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  • Speech Analytics Based on Machine Learning

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    In this chapter, the process of speech data preparation for machine learning is discussed in detail. Examples of speech analytics methods applied to phonemes and allophones are shown. Further, an approach to automatic phoneme recognition involving optimized parametrization and a classifier belonging to machine learning algorithms is discussed. Feature vectors are built on the basis of descriptors coming from the music information...

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  • Angelica Pegani mgr

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    A graduate of the management studies at the Faculty of Management and Economics of the Gdańsk University of Technology. She completed a postgraduate management studies and the Entrepreneurship Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She graduated from markeitng studies from University of Gdańsk. In 2016 she has started a PhD studies and wrote a doctoral thesis based on quality and management scientific area. She holds...

  • Online sound restoration system for digital library applications

    Audio signal processing algorithms were introduced to the new online non-commercial service for audio restoration intended to enhance the content of digitized audio repositories. Missing or distorted audio samples are predicted using neural networks and a specific implementation of the Jannsen interpolation method based on the autoregressive model (AR) combined with the iterative restoring of missing signal samples. Since the distortion...

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  • Current trends in consumption of multimedia content using online streaming platforms: A user-centric survey

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    In its early days, consumption of multimedia content was only possible at a stationary terminal device. The music player was located at home, and had to have a physical drive. Over the last decade, there has been an enormous increase in the number of online streaming platforms. These services enable users to consume rich multimedia content on various devices. Thanks to the widespread and availability of portable devices, any person...

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  • Fashion Games, Fashion in Games and Gamification in Fashion. A First Map

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    - Year 2023

    Fashion companies have been using different forms of entertainment such as film and television, sport, music, museums, and photography as inspiration sources and as communication and marketing channels for decades. However, in recent years, they have also started to consider the gaming world. While gaming offers a potential revenue stream from sales of physical and digital clothing, change in it is also the gateway to access new...

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  • Online sound restoration system for digital library applications.

    Audio signal processing algorithms were introduced to the new online non-commercial service for audio restoration intended to enhance the content of digitized audio repositories. Missing or distorted audio samples are predicted using neural networks and a specific implementation of the Jannsen interpolation method based on the autoregressive model (AR) combined with the iterative restoring of missing signal samples. Since the distortion...

  • Further Developments of the Online Sound Restoration System for Digital Library Applications

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    New signal processing algorithms were introduced to the online service for audio restoration available at the web address: www.youarchive.net. Missing or distorted audio samples are estimated using a specific implementation of the Jannsen interpolation method. The algorithm is based on the autoregressive model (AR) combined with the iterative complementation of signal samples. Since the interpolation algorithm is computationally...

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  • Digital Transformation of Terrestrial Radio: An Analysis of Simulcasted Broadcasts in FM and DAB+ for a Smart and Successful Switchover

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    The process of digitizing radio is far from over. It is an important interdisciplinary aspect, involving Big Data and AI (Artificial Intelligence) when it comes to classifying and handling content, and an organizational challenge in the Industry 4.0 concept. There exist several methods for delivering audio signals, including terrestrial broadcasting and internet streaming. Among them, the DAB+ (Digital Audio Broadcasting plus)...

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  • Dynamic Bayesian Networks for Symbolic Polyphonic Pitch Modeling

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    Symbolic pitch modeling is a way of incorporating knowledge about relations between pitches into the process of an- alyzing musical information or signals. In this paper, we propose a family of probabilistic symbolic polyphonic pitch models, which account for both the “horizontal” and the “vertical” pitch struc- ture. These models are formulated as linear or log-linear interpo- lations of up to fi ve sub-models, each of which is...

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  • How Machine Learning Contributes to Solve Acoustical Problems

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    • M. A. Roch
    • P. Gerstoft
    • B. Kostek
    • Z. Michalopoulou

    - Journal of the Acoustical Society of America - Year 2021

    Machine learning is the process of learning functional relationships between measured signals (called percepts in the artificial intelligence literature) and some output of interest. In some cases, we wish to learn very specific relationships from signals such as identifying the language of a speaker (e.g. Zissman, 1996) which has direct applications such as in call center routing or performing a music information retrieval task...

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  • Dynamic analysis of temporary steel grandstand subjected to human-induced excitations due to jumping

    Steel grandstands are structures that are frequently used during sport games and many other non-sporting events, such as festivals, music concerts, or even politicians rallies, with participation of a large number of attendees. Unfortunately, the presence of unexpected excessive dynamic loads due to unpredictable behaviour of spectators (e.g. synchronized harmonic jumping or swaying) may lead to...

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  • Akademicki Koncert Galowy „Niepodległa”

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    24-11-2018 18:00 - 24-11-2018 21:00

    Wystąpią: Konstanty Andrzej Kulka, Piotr Paleczny, Orkiestra Symfoniczna Akademii Muzycznej w Gdańsku, Akademicki Chór Politechniki Gdańskiej. Dyrygent: Zygmunt Rychert.

  • THE INFLUENCE OF POLYMER STRIPS IN REDUCTION OF A STEEL GRANDSTAND VIBRATIONS

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    Grandstands are types of structures commonly used during sport events or music concerts. Dynamic loads generated by crowd movement may have significant influence on human perception as well as may lead to the destruction of a structure. Lighter and more slender structural steel members are more easily excitable by spectators. If the synchronized movement is tuned with the natural frequency of the affected part of the structure,...

  • 7 Gdański Międzynarodowy Festiwal Chóralny

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    10-03-2018 11:00 - 11-03-2018 17:30

    Rektor i Politechnika Otwarta zapraszają na 7 Gdański Międzynarodowy Festiwal Chóralny 10.03.2018 r. (sobota), godz. 11.00 – przesłuchania 11.03.2018 r. (niedziela), godz. 16.00 – koncert galowy

  • Rhythm and Colours of the Angles

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    - Year 2018

    ABSTRACT The game of space was and still is a crucial aspect of visual arts. The aim of this study is to examine how the arrangement of hues, rhythms and angles of various polygons can create an impression of depth and movement on a flat surface. The so-called Penrose tiling and Ulam's spiral are mathematical models that have been applied for the painting experiment. There is a vast amount of evidence gathered over the ages that...

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  • Kamil Łapiński

    Master, Engineer Kamil Łapiński – Surveyor with vast practical experience, especially in civil engineering. Real Estate Appraiser. Graduate of Geodesy and Estate Appraisal faculty on University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. He has extensive geodetic experience on the domestic and foreign market, including the implementation of infrastructure projects of national and international importance, in the position of surveying as well...

  • Models of using the Internet by young Poles and their social capital.

    Highlights • Study examining Polish youth on internet usage styles. • Online communication is the most common form of spending time on the Internet. •...

  • Marek Czachor prof. dr hab.

  • Koncert z cyklu Akademia Muzyczna w Politechnice

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    21-11-2017 18:00 - 21-11-2017 19:00

    Koncert z cyklu Akademia Muzyczna w Politechnice: Maciej Kasprzak – akordeon, Karol Sokołowski – wiolonczela. W programie utwory m.in. J.S. Bacha, D. Scarlattiego, A. Chaczaturiana, K. Wiłkomirskiego, K. Olczaka.

  • Doskonalenie strumienia wartości

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    - Year 2009

    Książka ta ma na celu praktyczne ujęcie problemu optymalizacji przedsiębiorstwa opartej na koncepcji Lean (z ang. Lean – szczupły) i jej narzędziu Mapowania Strumienia Wartości. ---- Tu pobierzesz jej pełną treść w wersji elektronicznej: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xNrdiuOHKpyjzG5dY3ocFG8fp2hY1b9C/view?usp=sharing ---- Prezentowane...

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  • Jazz na Politechnice

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    25-04-2018 18:00 - 25-04-2018 22:00

    Na scenie AK PG Kwadratowa dn. 25.04.2018 r. odbędzie się jazzowy koncert „Tomasz Chyła Quintet”, w skład którego wchodzą młodzi muzycy jazzowi związani z trójmiejskim środowiskiem muzycznym.