In recent years, the media world has gone through a digital revolution. Equipment, speed and increased opportunities improve continuously. Media and IT industry working together on the development of new forms of production and distribution. At the same time, prices on the tools for producing and distributing have been lower, and the tools are easy to use. Therefore, all types of businesses, teams and organizations and individuals today can create and disseminate information in multimedial forms.

The continuous development of new technology and communication lead to increased demand for expertise in digital media, how to best design and produce content to be noticed and understood, how to best plan productions, with budget and implementation, and how technology best can be merged together to create new and better media products. To address this we need expertise. Faculty of Computer Science and Media Technology has a complex and a "complete" academic environment with expertise in: media design, media production, media technology, media management and color science and imaging.

The Colorlab performs colour measurement at NTNU’s Daylight Laboratory

The Artificial Sky is an important element of Daylight Laboratory at the Department of Architectural Design, Form and Colour Studies, NTNU, Trondheim. It simulates a totally overcast sky, i.e. overcast enough to prevent perception of the sun and its halo. Among other tasks, the Artificial Sky can be used to perform psychophysical experiments for a number of different purposes. In a current experiment the influence of different window classes in house architecture and the corresponding human colour perception in the room have been investigated. 

Norwegian membership in ISO/TC 130

 Wednesday 25. januar 2012 a Norwegian expert group had its first meeting with Standard Norge. 

It's all about Color!

The 26th and 27th of April the Norwegian Color Research Laboratory (Colorlab) organized a Color Workshop at HiG on the topic of Recent Trends in Color Imaging  .  The Workshop highlighted recent trends in Color Imaging, such as Image Restoration, Forensics, Watermarking, Bio-informatics and signal processing and some of the current project works undertaken within the Colorlab.

Computer-Aided Reclamation of Lost Art

Maria Lena Demetriou's master thesis is about Computer-Aided Reclamation of Lost Art.

Indexing of video segments

Laksmita Rahadianti's master thesis is about indexing of video segments based on appropriate keywords in lecture videos.

Real-time estimation of Dense Depth maps

Vamsidhar Reddy Gaddam's master thesis is about Real-time estimation of Dense Depth maps from difficult images

Master student Vera Nekrasova

Vera recently finished her master in Media Technology at Høgskolen i Gjøvik.  She is from Arkhangelsk, Russia and is now starting in a new job related to her master thesis.

Presentation about PAMIT.COM

Dr. Sule Yildirim Yayilgan made a presentation about PAMIT.com: Personalized AMbient Intelligent Travel COMpanion: Its Aim, Goals and Challenges at Velferdsteknologi2011 conference, in Trondheim. PAMIT.com is a community of people who are involved in designing and implementing a personalized travel companion for elderly and disabled people.  The talk focused on the aim, the architectural and technological challenges of the project. 

Let's play! Brain training using videogames

Brain training can help you to boost overall mental power and performance. Videogames can further help you to train your brain and become a more focused and engaged person.  This is what master student Hanne Karlsen wants to prove in her research.

Towards cross-border interoperable digital identity in financial sector

Nowadays we live in a world immersed in technology. We perform hundreds of activities on the web, from e-mail to pay bills, to keeping in contact with friends. All this requires the use of different user accounts and their passwords. 

Fall Detection using Mobile devices

Have you ever fallen down, while walking or sleeping? Do you know people who tend to fall very often? Do you usually trip over things? I do... I do know people who tend to fall very often.

Moscus

Students at Gjøvik University College (GUC) shall find out if a smartphone can be used to gather, store and transmit data on board on a weather balloon. That is why they are going to send a smartphone 15 000 feet up in the air.

Mobile students

Students attending the course «Mobile Systems Fundamentals» will be given smart phones and are following the lecturers presentation directly through mobile phone screen. -This is really fun, the students Tina Haaskjold and Cassandra Assenholt declare.

New record for colorlab

Colorlab at GUC got eight academic papers accepted at a single international conference. - Good research and international cooperation, Professor Jon Yngve Hardeberg explains.

Success at TG

Associate professor Simon McCallum presented three inspirational games topics and at The Gathering during Easter.

Students with robots

Sophisticated robots with artificial intelligence are not something that belongs to the future. – Students at Faculty of Computer Science and Media Technology have just adopted new robots in the classroom, says Associate Professor Sule Yildirim.

Study abroad?

Suzanne Knudsen takes a semester abroad at Bond University in Australia as part of her Bachelor in Media Management at GUC. - I would definitely recommend this to other students. You can experience something new, and escape everyday life a bit, says Suzanne.

Best Master`s Thesis

Liubov Kokorina and Bjørnar Rudsengen finished their Master`s Thesis this spring semester. Today they were awarded for best Master`s Thesis at Faculty of Computer Science and Media Technology.