Monochromatic Urban Patchwork: Map of Averaged Urban Ambience by Youngjun Choi(Ph.D Candidate) and professor Jinjoon Lee was accepted at ISEA2024.
Abstract : Monochromatic Urban Patchwork (MUP) (2023) presents a novel fusion of cartography and multimedia, transforming street view videos into a map of urban ambience. We analyze diverse temporal moments across the city through video, dis-tilling audiovisual elements into representative colors. The root mean square (RMS) values from audio tracks guide the extraction of significant chromatic instances creating a palette that reflects the city's rhythm. These average RGB values, corresponding to times with peak RMS values, are geospatial-ly mapped, representing the city in harmony with transient sound events and urban ambience. MUP embodies the real-time urban ambience, manifesting it in the mediums of imagery and video, encouraging the map reader to imagine urban narra-tives through the colored map. This practice of merging map-making with environmental sound analysis underscores the integration of multimedia into cartography. It effectively cap-tures the identity of urban environments, arousing further curiosity about different districts by imagining the ambience through colors. MUP translates the nuances of the city, offer-ing a condensed representation of spaces through the practice of cartography.