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Face tracking projects

In car face tracking – to detect driver fatigue and other behavior. PS Eye head tracking to move the POV of the game according to the position of the head. Example Facial tracking in cars to control objects in the car and identify the driver. Facial recognition for identification of people in photos as depicted [ READ MORE ]

How to get from point A to point B

I’ve made documentaries before and it’s not something entirely new. We would basically tell a story and the one way of telling a story is just simply to move forward. “Connecting” seems to be just as complicated as it sounds. For one, no longer do you have a captured audience for them to digest your [ READ MORE ]

Moments in panels

This week’s homework examines on the different ways we can combine words and images. Interdependent Word Specific Parallel Picture specific Personally, I preferred the picture specific method in this particular story of me crashing my bike. I think the the ability to convey the story using images conveys more emotion. I leave it to the [ READ MORE ]

Skeletal tracking

This week Kim Ash and I worked together on the skeletal tracking of the Kinect using OpenNI. The idea is when you reach a pose, a “nuclear” explosion occurs. Using the code sample from ITP Resident Greg Borenstien’s book “Making Things See, 2011″, it was fairly straightforward enough to get the skeletal tracking in place. [ READ MORE ]

10 years from now, the Kinect will be…

It will be used to track a person’s movements in a moving vehicle. I see the technology to be able to see the effects of crash tests and impact test on vehicles. This could actually be used to take body measurements for various applications such as customized furniture and equipment like bicycles. all connected and [ READ MORE ]

Max Sonar EZ1 critique

In the Sensor Workshop class, I was paired with Mark Breneman to find, update, edit, and critique a sensor report already posted in the ITP wiki as a guide for the ITP community. We chose the MaxSonar EZ-1 sensor form Maxbotix. Most of the codes posted are based on PBASIC and must be translated to [ READ MORE ]

Documentary ideas

We were asked to list possible ideas for a documentary that we can complete this semester so here’s what I came up with. So on the flight back to NY I came up with this list. 1.) *Woody Allen’s Manhattan/ New York 2.) Recycling day/ reusable bags/ plastic bag consumption     I hate the recycling [ READ MORE ]

The self image

This is the second time in my entire academic life that I’ve been fortunate enough to be in a comic book class. The first one was taught by Professor Emil Flores from the Department of English and Comparative Literature from the University of the Philippines which was mostly a writing class and that was almost [ READ MORE ]

Spatial LIteracy

In the essay required to read this week shows different approaches toward the space between the written text and the spoken language. I believe it’s frightening to think that without the sense of emotion of the spoken word and the information of the written text that human development might have been very different. I’m of [ READ MORE ]

Kinect Hand Tracking

It’s very unique that a single camera can essentially do two things. It’s far from perfect but it’s still a joy to work with. The Xbox Kinect is actually two cameras put together. A “traditional” RGB camera and an infrared camera assembled side by side. Due to the assembly of the camera, what you see [ READ MORE ]

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