InfoMus Lab

EyesWeb XMI
(eXtended Multimodal Interaction)

 

Current EyesWeb XMI release: download here.

Some of the main features of EyesWeb XMI are explained in:


A. Camurri, P. Coletta, A. Massari, B. Mazzarino, M. Peri, M. Ricchetti, A. Ricci, G. Volpe, Toward real-time multimodal processing: EyesWeb 4, in Proc. AISB 2004 Convention: Motion, Emotion and Cognition, Leeds, UK, March 2004.
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Some of the main new features of EyesWeb XMI include:

  • Separation between the execution engine and the graphical development environment. This implies also a simple command line executor.
  • Native support for XML for saving and loading patches.
  • real-time management of synchronisation between different signal streams (a basic feature for multimodal analysis): new sync-in and sync-out pins.
  • all library modules are now native (no more need for legacy modules, not supported any more).
  • added many new library modules: e.g. different techniques for background subtraction, color blob extraction, support of a number of hardware I/O devices, reimplementation and optimisation of audio analysis libraries, etc.
  • redefinition of the taxonomy of library modules.
  • Support of catalogs, pins, devices.
  • Redesign of the graphical development environment: many new features, including the possibility to rotate blocks, zoom in/out, and modify parameters of different blocks at the same time (multiple selection).
  • Subpatches

Many other features are also available.

The public EyesWeb forums include more details, information, patches, examples, bug reports, documentation addons, etc.

Support to research to interactive narrative structures (the Meta-EyesWeb project) is also under development. More on this later this year.

An extension of the Expressive Gesture Processing Libraries (including 2D and 3D gesture analysis, processing, mapping etc.), and the Tangible Acoustic Interfaces Library are part of our research projects. These libraries are not yet publicly released. More on this later this year.



EyesWeb XMI research users include:

  • Tril Centre (Dublin) and Intel
  • SARC, Queens University of Belfast
  • EU IST project partners in the following projects: Enactive, Humaine, TaiChi, SAME, Capsil, CoMeDiA


EyesWeb XMI is also used for a number of permanent public museum installations (e.g., Museo dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma; Museum La Roche D'Oetre, Normandie) and in artistic productions.

EyesWeb XMI will be the leit-motif of the NIME 2008 welcome concert in June 4th 2008: see NIME 2008 web pages for more details.

Technical details for installing EyesWeb XMI: the last version of DirectX 9 must be installed on your PC.

EyesWeb XMI runs on Windows XP and on Windows Vista.


The license of EyesWeb XMI has remained the same of previous versions.

We thank all the alpha and beta testers for their useful feedback.

We hope you enjoy EyesWeb XMI!

 

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