2025-09-19Seminar

Video Visualization - Learn to use MG Toolbox, by Alexander Jensenius (Oslo University)

When:
FRI, 19 SEPT 2025
From:
10:00 AM
To:
12:00 PM
Where:
LISER, Maison des Sciences Humaines

11, Porte des Sciences - Belval

Jane Jacobs (1st floor)
With:
Jensenius
Prof. Dr. Alexander Jensenius - RITMO, University of Oslo
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This workshop is targeted at students and researchers working with video recordings You will learn to use MG Toolbox, a Python package with numerous tools for visualizing and analyzing video files. This includes visualization techniques such as motion videos, motion history images, and motiongrams; techniques that, in different ways, allow for looking at video recordings from different temporal and spatial perspectives. It also includes some basic computer vision analysis, such as extracting quantity and centroid of motion, and using such features in analysis.

MG Toolbox for Python is a collection of high-level modules that generate all of the above-mentioned visualizations.The toolbox is relevant for everyone working with video recordings of humans, such as in linguistics, psychology, medicine, human-computer interaction, and educational sciences.

Target audience

Everyone interested in video analysis.

Learning outcomes

Learn to generate various types of visualizations from video recordings.

Prerequisites and required materials

Basic knowledge of Python and Jupyter Notebook.

Laptop with Python and Jupyter Notebook installed.

Speaker
Jensenius
Prof. Dr. Alexander Jensenius - RITMO, University of Oslo
Director at RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion (IMV) - Professor at Institutt for musikkvitenskap
Alexander Refsum Jensenius, BA, MA, MSc, PhD [he/him] is a music researcher and research musician. He is Professor of music technology and Director of RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion. He studies how and why people move to music in the fourMs Lab and uses this knowledge to create new music with untraditional instruments. Publications include the monograph Sound Actions, and the Sonic Design and A NIME Reader anthologies. He has been named Open Science Champion through his involvement in modernizing how research is conceived and conducted, including research-based educational approaches through online courses such as Music Moves, Motion Capture, and Pupillometry. Alexander received a multi-disciplinary bachelor's degree in music and mathematics and a master's in musicology from the University of Oslo. He then completed a master's in applied information technology at the Chalmers University of Technology before pursuing a PhD in music technology at the University of Oslo. He has been a visiting researcher at UC Berkeley (CNMAT), McGill University (IDMIL), and KTH (TMH). He was Head of the Department of Musicology from 2013-2016 and led the Steering Committee of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression from 2011-2022.
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