CV
Parag Kumar Mital
Department of Computing
Goldsmiths, University of London
London, SE14 6NW, United Kingdom
Website: http://pkmital.com
Citizenship: United States
Current Post
Ph.D Student (beg. 2010) – fully-funded studentship in Arts and Computational Technology under the supervision of Mick Grierson, Goldsmiths Department of Computing, University of London.
Academic Work
Research Assistant (2008-2010) John M. Henderson’s Visual Cognition Lab, University of Edinburgh
Investigating dynamic scene perception through computational models of eye-movements, low-level static and temporal visual features, film composition, and object and scene semantics. The DIEM Project. Funded by the Leverhulme Trust and ESRC.
Education
M.Sc. (2008) Artificial Intelligence: Intelligent Robotics, University of Edinburgh
B.Sc. (2007) Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware
Associated Labs
CIRCLE: Creative Interdisciplinary Research in CoLlaborative Environments, initiated between the Edinburgh College of Art, the University of Edinburgh, and elsewhere.
The DIEM Project: Dynamic Images and Eye-Movements, initiated by John M. Henderson at the University of Edinburgh
EAVI: Embodied Audio-Visual Interaction group initiated by Mick Grierson and Marco Gilles at Goldsmiths, University of London
Publications
Parag K Mital, Mick Grierson. “Separation and Classification of Acoustic Mixtures using Mel-Frequency-based Probabilistic Latent Component Analysis”, In Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Multimedia Conference, Nara, Japan. October 2012. (In Review)
Parag K Mital, Mick Grierson. “Audio Content-based Information Display: Mining Unknown Electronic Music Databases through Interactive Visualization of Latent Component Relationships”, In Proceedings of the 2012 International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval, Porto, Portugal. October 2012. (In Review)
Tim J Smith, Parag K Mital. “Watching the world go by: Attentional prioritization of social motion during dynamic scene viewing”. Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. May 2011. [abstract]
Parag K Mital, Tim J Smith, Robin Hill, John M Henderson. “Clustering of Gaze during Dynamic Scene Viewing is Predicted by Motion” Cognitive Computation. New York. 2010. [online] [pdf]
Teaching
Audiovisual Processing, openFrameworks and iPhone workshop. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, 2012 [course website]
Workshops in Creative Computing: Computer Vision. Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, 2012 [course website]
Stories are Flowing Trees, Interim Semester, Center for Experimental Media Arts, Srishti School of Design, Bangalore, India, 2011. [course website]
Digital Media Studio Project. School of Arts, Culture, and Environment, University of Edinburgh
(2010) Supervisor for 3 MSc Students on Augmented Sculpture
(2009) Supervised 6 MSc Students on Incorporating Computer Vision in Interactive Installation
Engineering and Sciences Research Mentor. Seminar. McNair Scholars, University of Delaware, 2007
Instructor. Web Design. McNair Scholars, University of Delaware, 2007
Teaching Assistant. Introduction to Computer Science. University of Delaware, 2006
Talks/Posters
Parag K. Mital and Tim J. Smith, “Investigating Auditory Influences on Eye-movements during Figgis’s Timecode”. 2012 Society for the Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI), New York, NY. 13-16 June 2012.
Parag K. Mital and Tim J. Smith, “Computational Auditory Scene Analysis of Dynamic Audiovisual Scenes”. Invited Talk, Birkbeck University of London, Department of Film. London, UK. 25 January 2012.
Parag K. Mital, “Resynthesizing Perception”. Invited Talk, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK. 11 January 2012.
Parag K. Mital, “Resynthesizing Perception”. Invited Talk, Dartmouth, Department of Music. Hanover, NH, USA. 7 January 2012.
Parag K. Mital, “Resynthesizing Perception”. 2011 Bitfilm Festival, Goethe Institut, Bengaluru (Bangalore), India. 3 December 2011.
Parag K. Mital, “Resynthesizing Perception”. Thursday Club, Goldsmiths, University of London. 13 October 2011.
Parag K. Mital, “Resynthesizing audiovisual perception with augmented reality”. Invited Talk for Newcastle CULTURE Lab, Lunch Bites. 30 June 2011 [slides][online]
Hill, R.L., Henderson, J. M., Mital, P. K. & Smith, T. J. (2010) “Dynamic Images and Eye Movements”. Poster at ASCUS Art Science Collaborative, Edinburgh College of Art, 29 March 2010.
Robin Hill, John M. Henderson, Parag K. Mital, Tim J. Smith. “Through the eyes of the viewer: Capturing viewer experience of dynamic media.” Invited Poster for SICSA DEMOFest. Edinburgh, U.K. 24 November 2009
Parag K Mital, Tim J. Smith, Robin Hill, and John M. Henderson. “Dynamic Images and Eye-Movements.” Invited Talk for Centre for Film, Performance and Media Arts, Close-Up 2. Edinburgh, U.K. 2009
Parag K. Mital, Stephan Bohacek, Maria Palacas. “Realistic Mobility Models for Urban Evacuations.” 2007 National Ronald E. McNair Conference. 2007
Parag K. Mital, Stephan Bohacek, Maria Palacas. “Developing Realistic Models for Urban Evacuations.” 2006 National Ronald E. McNair Conference. 2006
Exhibitions
(2011) SURFACES, Bengaluru Artist Residency 1 (BAR1), Bengaluru (Bangalore), India (Co-Curator and Artist)
(2011) Bitfilm Festival, Goethe Institut, Bengaluru (Bangalore), India
(2011) Oramics to Electronica, Science Museum. London, U.K.
(2011) Edinburgh International Film Festival. Edinburgh, U.K.
(2011) Kinetica Art Fair 2011, Ambika P3. London, U.K.
(2010-2011) Solo Exhibition, Waterman’s Art Centre, London, UK.
(2010) onedotzero Adventures in Motion Festival, British Film Institute (BFI) Southbank, London, UK.
(2010) LATES, Science Museum, London, UK.
(2010) Athens Video Art Festival, Technopolis. Athens, Greece
(2010) Is this a test?, Roxy Arthouse, Edinburgh, UK.
(2010) Neverzone, Roxy Arthouse, Edinburgh, UK.
(2010) Dialogues Festival, Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh, U.K.
(2010) Kinetica Art Fair 2010, Ambika P3. London, U.K.
(2010) Soundings Festival, Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh, U.K.
(2010) Media Art: A 3-Dimensional Perspective, Online Exhibition (Add-Art)
(2009) Passing Through, James Taylor Gallery. London, U.K.
(2009) Interact, Lauriston Castle Glasshouse. Edinburgh, U.K.
(2008) Leith Short Film Festival, Edinburgh, U.K. June
(2008) Solo exhibition, Teviot, Edinburgh, U.K. April
Research/Technical Reports
Parag K. Mital, Tim J. Smith, John M. Henderson. A Framework for Interactive Labeling of Regions of Interest in Dynamic Scenes. MSc Dissertation. Aug 2008
Parag K. Mital. Interactive Video Segmentation for Dynamic Eye-Tracking Analysis. 2008
Parag K. Mital. Augmented Reality and Interactive Environments. 2007
Stephan Bohacek, Parag K. Mital. Mobility Models for Urban Evacuations. 2007
Parag K. Mital, Jingyi Yu. Light Field Interpolation via Max-Contrast Graph Cuts. 2006
Parag K. Mital, Jingyi Yu. Gradient Based Domain Video Enhancement of Night Time Video. 2006
Parag K. Mital, Jingyi Yu. Interactive Light Field Viewer. 2006
Stephan Bohacek, Parag K. Mital. OpenGL Modeling of Urban Cities and GIS Data Integration. 2005