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MediaLab at the Athens Science Festival

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MediaLab participated in the Athens Science Festival event as part of the Athena Research Centre’s science and technology exhibition at the Technopolis-Athens. Great week for young people and the general public to peek at the weird and wonderful world of science and technology!

MediaLab’s exhibition theme was “3D scanning, viewing and printing” and was briefly described as follows:

Digitization (or scanning) of objects in three dimensions is now a widespread practice that enables the complete optical documentation of the objects of our world.
With the real-world objects being brought to a 3D virtual world, we have the possibility of inspecting them interactively from any desired viewpoint, gaining significantly more insight than by a typically viewing a photo that provides just a single static viewpoint.
In the specific case of the digital documentation of cultural heritage, 3D digitization has been successfully used in capturing the geometry and colour of objects or monuments with multiple objectives, such as recording the current state (visual documentation), providing means for enhanced study-investigation, supporting conservation-restoration activities, empowering education and culture dissemination, even supporting physical reproduction using 3D printing.
The cultural technology team at the MediaLab of “Athena RIC” has developed extensive know-how in cultural technologies and specifically 3D digitization and VR applications in cultural heritage and presents here contemporary approaches for 3D digitization of cultural objects, along with easy-to-use techniques for Web dissemination and simple 3D printing capabilities.

MediaLab’s participation included the demonstration of

  • two 3D scanning techniques (based on structure from motion and structured light)
  • 3D viewing of 3D scanned content in 3D TVs without glasses
  • 3D printing of 3D scanned or modelled content on a simple 3D PLA-based printer
  • a virtual museum framework for educational practice based on gaming technologies
  • a game-based learning integrated educational system based on gaming technologies, along with Doukas Schools, Omega Technology and Byte Computer

Here is a gallery of photos of MediaLab’s exhibition at the event:

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Call for collaboration under the Greek National Project ‘Synthesis’

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The Institute for Language and Speech Processing has an open call for 7 external collaborators for the purposes of the Greek National Project ‘Synthesis‘. The call is open till July 18, 2014, 15:00.

Collaboration involves:

  • Development of a DBMS using international standards and best practices for web applications
  • Development of interactive multimedia applications and 3D/VR applications
  • Vocabularies development consulting
  • Direction of computer games
  • Development of cross-disciplinary educational activities
  • Scenario development of computer games

*** The first two vacancies involving DBMS and application development will complement the Xanthi’s Research Group.

Extensive call description can be found at the ILSP job vacancies page.

—————————————— Greek version / Ελληνική έκδοση

Το Ινστιτούτο Επεξεργασίας του Λόγου αναζητά 7 συνεργάτες για τις ανάγκες του Εθνικού έργου ‘Synthesis‘. Η πρόσκληση είναι ανοικτή έως τη 18η Ιουλίου 2014, ώρα 15:00.

Η συνεργασία περιλαμβάνει:

  • Ανάπτυξη συστήματος βάσης δεδομένων βάσει διεθνών προτύπων και διαδικτυακών εφαρμογών
  • Ανάπτυξη διαδραστικών πολυμεσικών εφαρμογών και εφαρμογών 3Δ
  • Ειδικός σύμβουλος για την ανάπτυξη λεξιλογίων
  • Σκηνοθεσία ηλεκτρονικού παιχνιδιού
  • Συμμετοχή στην ανάπτυξη διαθεματικών εκπαιδευτικών δραστηριοτήτων
  • Σενάριο ηλεκτρονικού παιχνιδιού

*** Οι δύο πρώτες θέσεις που αφορούν την ανάπτυξη βάσης δεδομένων και πολυμεσικών εφαρμογών θα συμπληρώσουν την Ερευνητική Ομάδα Πολυμέσων στην Ξάνθη.

Αναλυτική περιγραφή της πρόσκλησης βρίσκεται στη σελίδα ανοικτών θέσεων συνεργασίας του ΙΕΛ.

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Call for collaboration under the Greek National Project ‘GameIt’

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The Multimedia Research Group has an open call for 4 external collaborators for the purposes of the Greek National Project ‘GameIt‘. The call is open till June 19, 2014, 15:00. A brief description of the vacancies is as follows:

  1. Two (2) electrical or informatics engineers for the development of
    • Ontology mapping system
    • Serious games scenario editor (world & scenario editor)
    • Multiplayer online game system
  2. Two (2) historians/archaeologists or/and art historians for
    • Collection and cataloguing of cultural and educational sources
    • Analysis and rating of cultural and educational resources
    • Mapping of ontologies of various resources to the ontology of ‘GameIt’
    • Collection, cataloguing and analysis of thesauri and vocabularies

Extensive call description can be found at the ILSP job vacancies page.

—————————————— Greek version

Η Ομάδα Έρευνας Πολυμέσων αναζητά 4 συνεργάτες για τις ανάγκες του Εθνικού έργου ΠΑΒΕΤ ‘GameIt‘. Η πρόσκληση είναι ανοικτή έως τη 19η Ιουνίου 2014, ώρα 15:00. Μια συνοπτική περιγραφή των εν λόγω θέσεων ακολουθεί:

  1. Δύο (2) μηχανικοί/πληροφορικοί για την ανάπτυξη
    • Συστήματος αντιστοίχισης οντολογιών
    • Μηχανή συγγραφής σεναρίων παιχνιδιών (world & scenario editor)
    • Σύστημα πολυσυμμετοχκού διαδικτυακού παιχνιδιού
  2. Δύο (2) ιστορικοί/αρχαιολόγοι ή/και ιστορικοί τέχνης για
    • Συλλογή και καταγραφή πολιτιστικών και εκπαιδευτικών πηγών
    • Ανάλυση και διαβάθμιση πολιτιστικών και εκπαιδευτικών πηγών
    • Αντιστοίχιση οντολογιών πηγών με την οντολογία του έργου ‘GameIt’
    • Συλλογή, καταγραφή και ανάλυση θησαυρών όρων και λεξικών

Αναλυτική περιγραφή της πρόσκλησης βρίσκεται στη σελίδα ανοικτών θέσεων συνεργασίας του ΙΕΛ.

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“Digital Innovation for the Society of Knowledge”

The Department contributed to the planning and organization of the Institute’s participation to the Workshop “Digital Innovation for the Society of Knowledge” organized by the ‘ATHENA’ Research Center on March, 19th, 2008, held at the Eugenides Foundation, Athena, Greece.
The Department co-ordinated a roundtable on the “Applications of 3D technologies in culture”, under the thematic unit “Pictures from the digital future: emerging technologies of information” with the kind participation of:

  • Dr. George Pavlidis, ATHENA – Three-dimensional digital recording
  • Prof. Christodoulos Chamzas, ATHENA/DUTH – Enhancement of Cultural Heritage using three-dimensional reconstruction technologies
  • Prof. Andreas Georgopoulos, NTUA – New Technologies at the service of Geometric Documentation of Monuments
  • Prof. Vasilios Tsioukas, DUTH – The Role of Education in the Documentation of Monuments