Unwrapped well, given the noise in the image.

An experiment in found machine-vision footage: vimeo.com/36239715

using same kind of sensing technology (computer vision) for surveillance and security

Visione potenziata: creando immagini con l’AI.

Continuo a sperimentare per il mio piacere.

"Light Leaks" by Kyle McDonald and Jonas Jongejan at Day for Night Festival 2017 in Houston, Texas.

Screenshot from my end of year college project, which tracks movement through a space (in this case, St Enoch Square in Glasgow). Uses Processing for detecting movement, as well as the BlobScanner library for detecting large shapes (e.g. people) and the Mesh library for calculating a Delaunay triangulation of the resulting points. Colours are sampled from the original image. To see the full video and code, check my blog at velvetkevorkian.wordpress.com.

Images created from movement in car chase sequences.

This is a model of the authors scanned face. The slit scan technique was enhanced with depth data using the Kinect camera.

For further information go to:

www.mas.caad.arch.ethz.ch/mas1011/

"Light Leaks" by Kyle McDonald and Jonas Jongejan at Day for Night Festival 2017 in Houston, Texas.

Visioni potenziate: creando immagini con l’AI Cosplayer. Enhanced vision: creating images with AI

Cosplayer.

Photo: Francesca Centonze

Longevity of light bulbs (and how to make them last longer)

Electroacoustic interactive performance

Stefano D'Alessio

Vienna 2016

Longevity of light bulbs fuses natural and processed sound with physical movement and dynamic light.

The performance proposes a DIY way of music making, focusing on low budget items hacking, creative use of new technologies designing alternative interfaces for sound creation.

Resembling of a solo concert piece, L.O.L.B. has as its core an amplified ikea desk lamp, explored in all its sonorities by one performer playing it with bare hands.

An important characteristic of the lamp is that it can be easily moved, this mobility amplifies the physical performance and modifies the original sound, thanks to a custom made interface and digital audio processing.

The interface between the lamp movement and the sound manipulation, is ideated hypothesising how a “natural” sound would behave, taking advantage of the possibilities of digital audio but bringing them out of the computer, interfacing them with something more physical and “primitive” than a controller fader or a mouse.

The focus is to magnify how the sound processing is controlled, transforming unperceivable digits unseeable to human eyes, into visible performative actions.

The spatial position of the light source is tracked by a camera and translated into parameters usable by the audio engine, naturally connecting the lamp movement to the behaviour of its sound transformations.

The final audio, even when processed, has tones which are close to the natural ones, as the audio processes basically consist in different applications audio delay, meaning that there is no synthesised sound or recorded sample added to the final output.

The only light source present in the performance is the lamp’s light bulb itself. Meaning that the moving lamp is, beside changing its own sound, acting as a dynamic lighting device. It points and looks in different direction, behaving like a curious creature, illuminating different part of the environment, scanning through the audience and sometimes blinding the people.

The result is a performance and electroacoustic piece, where natural and artificial tones fuse seamlessly, symbiotically combined with light, developing in time with movements of the performer and its instrument.

A student demonstrates how to use the Visipedia app.

"Light Leaks" by Kyle McDonald and Jonas Jongejan at Day for Night Festival 2017 in Houston, Texas.

Geometric Scuplture of the author. The size of the triangles is determined just on the depth data steps of the camera.

For further information go to:

www.mas.caad.arch.ethz.ch/mas1011/

Sample frame in video from the hive camera with an overlay of automatically detected bees.

Research using computer vision to investigate Colony Collapse Disorder is on this edition of Future Lab:

connectedsocialmedia.com/5456/future-lab-computer-vision

"Light Leaks" by Kyle McDonald and Jonas Jongejan at Day for Night Festival 2017 in Houston, Texas.

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"I came in with some good experience from before, like doing computer vision projects for outdoor perception for field robots," says Debadeepta Dey. "But the basic principles for any project remain the same, you go in and you do the rigor and you make sure that you know the state of the art, and that you come up to speed for your particular application, and then you think about extending it forward."

Bright/dark LED triggering off PS3Eye VSYNC for eye tracking.

Andrew Tschesnok, CEO of Organic Motion, in the new LiteBox system during the Intel Core i7 launch event in San Francisco.

When posting, please link back to the original picture on Flickr and credit as: (CC) Chris Michaels www.chrisamichaels.com.

Dennis Jellett, 6R4.net track day, Curborough Sprint Course.