“La Gabbia” (The Cage) by auroraMeccanica (2011) is an installation that uses projection to invite the public to interact with physical bird cage to trigger the release of projected birds. At the center of a darkened room, a birdcage hanging from the ceiling it’s lit only by the white beam of the projector and its on the [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2012
My favorite computer vision project
My all-time favorite computer vision project is Text Rain by Camille Utterback & Romy Achituv. Hard to believe that this was done in 1999, long before the Kinect made this much easier. It was created at ITP, and when I had the chance to spend some time there I did small hommage to this installation. [...]
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Face recognition
The Viola-Jones algorithm is one of most common computer vision techniques to detect faces. Greg Borenstein did a nice interview with Adam Harvey where they talk about the underlying assumptions in the technique. Everything is explained clearly, so it’s great if you want to learn a little more about what happens behind the scenes. Harvey [...]
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visualizing data. Playing with interface
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Progress on GPS visualization project for the data workshop, part 2
Visualization of GPS data, iteration 3 from Bert Balcaen on Vimeo. In this video the color of the trail corresponds to its location on Google Maps. I spend a lot of time on this, but I think it’s adding a very interesting layer to the visualization. I’m using the Static Maps API from Google to [...]