Recording Platform

  • The AWEAR-II recording platform is a portable audio-visual recording platform that was developed in the DIRAC project. It consists of three mini-pcs (Siemens D2703-S mini ITX boards), two cameras (AVT Stingray), four microphones (Tbone EM700 stereo mic set ), an audio capturing interface including a triggering device for audio-visual synchronization (FOCUSRITE Saffire PRO 10 ), a battery pack (Camden 12V gel ) and a power distribution box.
  • The system can be controlled using a graphical user interface (GUI) application running on a netbook which in turn communicates with the recording platform via a wireless network connection. The GUI is used as a remote control for the preparation of recording sessions and capturing, for hardware adjustments and controlling. Detailed Information about the procedure can be found in the publications given below.
  • The hardware is mounted on a wearable backpack frame and allows human-centered recordings in both indoor and outdoor environments. Further information on the recording platform can be found in

Hollosi D, Wabnik S., Gerlach S., Kortlang S., "Catalog of basic scenes for rare/ incongruent event detection," DIRAC Workshop at the European conference on machine learning and principles and practice of knowledge discovery in databases (ECMLPKDD2010), Barcelona, Spanien, September 2010

Havlena, M., Ess, A., Moreau, W., Torii, A., Janoek, M., Pajdla, T., Van Gool, L. "AWEAR 2.0 system: Omni-directional audio-visual data acquisition and processing" In: EGOVIS 2009: First Workshop on Egocentric Vision. pp. 4956 (2009)

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