openEyA v4.0.0 is now available for Ubuntu 10.04!

openEyA has now a new recording modality with no need for extra Hardware or get lost with cables.

you can:

• capture automatically your computer screen (i.e., grab slides done with PPT, PDF or any other digital presentation) from the same computer in which openEyA is installed and synchronize them with video; … you can give and project a seminar/lecture while recording it!

• or easily record “self-seminars”, i.e., your own lectures, viewpoints, etc. which you can then share with your students and audience via web or through a compressed zip file.

This new openeEyA’s recording modality is easier to use than ever!

As always, we thank you for using openEyA and look forward to your feedback.

Cordially yours,
The SDU Team

openEyA v4.0.0 now allows you:

• to capture automatically your computer screen (i.e., grab slides done with PPT, PDF or any other digital presentation) from the same computer in which openEyA is installed and synchronize them with video; … you can give and project a seminar/lecture while recording it!

• to easily record “self-seminars”, i.e., your own lectures, viewpoints, etc. which you can then share with your students and audience via web or through a compressed zip file.

This new openeEyA’s recording modality is easier to use than ever!

As always, we thank you for using openEyA and look forward to your feedback.

Cordially yours,
The SDU Team

• has been optimized to speed-up the digital camera response to  the automated photo shots.
• allows to create automatically keywords from slides into a file OCR.txt  (OCR – Optical Character Recognition) whenever possible.
  

Note Added: Due to recent upgrades of Ubuntu 10.04, please use this revised version 3.1.0 (rather that the recent previous v3.0.9).

As always, we thank you for using openEyA and look forward to your feedback.

Cordially yours,
The SDU Team

• has been optimized to speed-up the digital camera response to  the automated photo shots.

As always, we thank you for using openEyA and look forward to your feedback.

Cordially yours,
The SDU Team

• patch from Univ of Parma for automatic processing,
• patch from Univ of Parma to set recording from command line.
• bug fixed in gphoto2 links.

We thank you for using openEyA and look forward to your feedback.

Cordially yours,
The SDU Team

2010 WINNERS ANNOUNCED

ICTP’s Science Dissemination Unit (SDU) congratulates the winners of its first grant programme “International Academic Webcasting Grant for Developing Countries using openEyA“. The grants support the automated production of on-line scientific content (via “webinars”) and e-learning and distance education (via web lectures).

The grant is meant to contribute to capacity building and development by implementing academic webcasting using openEyA. The grantees have agreed to publish recorded lectures on the web and distribute them freely in digital form for educational purposes.

The four winners, selected from a total of 100 grant submissions, received a complete set of the openEyA recording system (worth about 650 Euros), including all necessary hardware and software.

The four grantees are:

• E-Learning Unit, Institute of Adult and Continuing Education, Makerere University, Uganda
• Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Department of Mathematics, University of Valparaiso, Chile
• Department for Open Distance Learning, University of Bucharest, Romania

Congratulations to the winners! We also thank all participants and the ICTP Mail Office who delivered the systems by courier to the winners Institutions.

The SDU Team

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About openEyA:
EyA (“Enhance your Audience”) is an innovative automated audio/video/slide recording system, developed to archive and share scientific lectures and talks carried out using digital presentations (PPT, PDF, animations, etc) as well as traditional chalkboards or whiteboards found in classrooms. The EyA system has these main features:
* no human intervention during recording and post-processing;
* scalable architecture;
* no special requirements for the speaker or lecturer;
* high-resolution images;
* low-cost ownership and implementation;
* low-bandwidth friendly features (zip, CD, DVD).

For more details about openEyA see www.openeya.org
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We are glad to announce a new upgrade  of openEyA version 3.0.6 (Myrmex) with some minor warnings added for the Preview in the absence of digital camera or vga2usb grab devices and extra support for automated creation of the complete Slides Gallery.

We thank you for using openEyA and look forward to your feedback.

Cordially yours,
The SDU Team

We thank you for using openEyA and look forward to your feedback.

Cordially yours,
The SDU Team

• the afterward editing of video,  audio and slides (the later from a remotely controlled digital  camera or VGA screen capture),

and

• a “Beep” (ringtone) indicator at the end of each “Manual Recording” session.

We thank you for using openEyA and look forward to your feedback.

Cordially yours,
The SDU Team

With openEyA, automated digital photo shots, or screen captures, can be done on a single low-cost netbook as well as audio/video recording, processing, delivery and afterward editing –all with just one click!

The automated and editable syncronized recordings can be easily embeeded in any e-learning content management systems.

openEyA version 3.0 (Myrmex) is available for free as an easy-to-install Ubuntu package.  This version

• editor for video, audio and photos,
• new implementation of processing,
• improved midnight check algorithm,
• some minor bugs removed,
• added directories for backup and checkboxes.

 

We thank you for using openEyA and look forward to your feedback.

Cordially yours,
The SDU Team

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Info: openEyA integrates different technologies under Linux Ubuntu 9.10 and 32 bits machines like low-cost Netbooks to synchronize:

• (i) video in Flash format,
  
• (ii) high resolution slides (to zoom specific areas of a blackboard or a projector screen) and
• (iii)  classroom audio (without the need to wear a microphone).