Bruno Zamborlin | |
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| Bruno Zamborlin in 2018 | |
| Born | August 1983 (age 41–42) |
| Alma mater | Goldsmiths, University of London |
| Occupation(s) | Chief Executive Officer Entrepreneur Artist |
| Known for | Mogees, HyperSurfaces |
Bruno Zamborlin, PhD (born 1983 in Vicenza) is an Italian AI researcher and entrepreneur based in London, UK.
He is considered a pioneer in the field of converting physical objects into touch-sensitive, interactive surfaces using vibration sensors and Artificial Intelligence.
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In 2013 he founded Mogees Limited, the London-Los Angeles based start-up whose products enable users to transform everyday objects into musical instruments and games using a vibration sensor and a mobile phone (100,000 units sold worldwide).
In 2017 he founded HyperSurfaces, a technology platform which converts physical surfaces of any material, shape and form into data-enabled, interactive surfaces using a vibration sensor and a coin-sized chipset.
As an artist, he produces art installations around the world and performs with UK-based electronic music duo Plaid (Warp records).
Early life & education
Zamborlin was born in Vicenza, Italy. After attending a degree in Mathematics between University of Padua (IT) and Liacs (Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, NL), he enrolled in a master degree in Computer Science in University of Bologna (IT) which he has been awarded with summa cum laude.
In 2008 Zamborlin moved to Paris, where he lived for 3 years. During this time he has been working at the IRCAM (Institute for Research and Coordination Acoustic Musical) – Centre Pompidou as a member of the Sound Music Movement Interaction team.
Under the supervision of Frederic Bevilacqua, he started experimenting with the use of Artificial Intelligence and human movements. He contributed to the creation of Gesture Follower, a software used to analyse body movements of performers and dancers through motion sensors in order to control sound and visual media in real-time. Different human gestures could trigger different media as well as slowing and speeding up their reproduction based on the way such gestures are performed.
In 2011 Zamborlin relocated to London, where in 2013 he was granted a joint PhD between Goldsmiths, University of London and IRCAM - Centre Pompidou/Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris 6 in AI with the title 'Designing for Appropriation of Digital Music Technology'. The PhD focuses on the concept of Interactive Machine Learning [4] applied to digital musical instruments and performing arts. The jury panel included Reactable's inventor Sergi Jorda.
Business career
Zamborlin founded Mogees Limited in 2013 in London, with IRCAM amongst the early investors in the company.
Mogees is a product that enables users to transform physical objects into musical instruments and games using a vibration sensor and a series of apps for smartphones and desktop. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
After a successful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter in 2014 [10], Mogees reportedly sold 100,000 units and has been used by artists such as Rodrigo y Gabriela [11], Jean Michel Jarre [12] and Plaid [13].
In 2017 Zamborlin founded HyperSurfaces together with computational artist Parag K Mital [14]. HyperSurfaces is a technology that converts any surface made of any material, shape and size into data-enabled interactive objects, employing a vibration sensor and proprietary AI algorithms running on a coin-sized chipset [15]. The vibrations generated by people's interactions on the surface are converted into an electric signal by a piezoelectric sensor and analysed in realtime by the AI algorithms that run on the chipset. Anytime the AI recognises in the vibration signal one of the events that have been predefined by the user beforehand, a corresponding notification message is sent in realtime.
The technology can be applied to multiple industry sectors, ranging from button-less human-computer interaction applications for automotive and smart home to the Internet of Things [16] [17].
Because the AI algorithms employed by HyperSurfaces run locally on a chipset, without the need to access cloud-based services, they are considered to be part of the field of edge AI. Also, because the AI can be trained beforehand to recognise the events its users are interested in, HyperSurfaces algorithms belong to the field of supervised machine learning.
Art installations
Selected talks
- How vibration can turn any object into a data enabled interface, TEDx San Francisco, 3 October 2019
- Transforming everyday objects into musical instruments, TEDx Brussels, 14 November 2012
- The Joy of Creating Music with Augmented Reality, TEDx Milan, 3 November 2017 (Italian language)
- Testimonial for Sennheiser's 'Catch the Momentum' campaign
- Bruno Zamborlin talks about Mogees and Plaid on Wired UK
Selected awards
- IRISA Prix Jeune Chercheur, 13 October 2012
- NeMoDe, New Economic Models in the Digital Economy, 25 October 2012
Selected publications
- Method to recognize a gesture and corresponding device TODO
- Continuous Realtime Gesture Following and Recognition. Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 5934), 2010.
- Modular musical objects towards embodied control of digital music. TEI '11: Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction, January 2010 Pages 9–12
- Online Gesture Analysis and Control of Audio Processing. Part of the Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics book series (STAR, volume 74), 2011.
- Fluid gesture interaction design: Applications of continuous recognition for the design of modern gestural interfaces, 2014. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent SystemsJanuary 2014 Article No.: 22
- Grainstick: A Collaborative, Interactive Sound Installation. Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), 2010
- Extracting Human Expression For Interactive Composition with the Augmented Violin, International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), 2012
- On SPAWC: Discussion on a Musical Signal Parser and Well-Formed Composer, 6th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2009, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
- (LAND)MOVES. Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, NIME, May 2011, Oslo, Norway. pp.537-538
References:
- ^ An Interview with Bruno Zamborlin (23 June 2014)
- ^ Bruno Zamborlin, CEO and Chief Scientist at Hypersurfaces, Unite.ai, December 2020
- ^ Bruno Zamborlin, PhD Feature, Coruzant Technologies, July 2020
- ^ Interactive machine learning: experimental evidence for the human in the algorithmic loop. Holzinger, A., Plass, M., Kickmeier-Rust, M. et al. Interactive machine learning: experimental evidence for the human in the algorithmic loop. Appl Intell 49, 2401–2414 (2019)
- ^ Mogees: Resynthesis App & Sensor For iOS & Mac, Sound on Sound, March 2016
- ^ Mogees Project Turns Any Surface Into a Gestural Musical Interface, Wired.com, April 2012
- ^ Mogees picks up seed funding to put audio-based gesture recognition tech into new devices, Techcrunch, May 2017
- ^ Mogees, ou la réalité virtuelle sonore pour tous, Les Echos, August 2016
- ^ Mogees: an Italian’s startup that is making the whole world play music (from trees to DJ’s), StartupItalia, September 2014
- ^ Kickstarter success for gadget that turns everyday objects into instruments, Fact Magazine, March 2014.
- ^ Rod, Gab & Mogees, March 2014
- ^ Bruno Zamborlin and Mogees on Jean Michel Jarre website, June 2014
- ^ Plaid and Bruno Zamborlin, ELEX music video
- ^ Parag K Mital's website
- ^ HyperSurfaces turns any surface into a user interface using vibration sensors and AI, Techcrunch, November 2018
- ^ HyperSurfaces uses AI to make object interfacing more natural, NewsAtlas, November 2018.
- ^ HyperSurfaces – Seamlessly Merging The Physical And Data Worlds, TechCompanyNews, November 2018