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Final version of GPS visualization project for the data workshop

By balcaen.bert@iaac.net | Published: November 20, 2012

Video of the final version: A walk in Barcelona. Visualization of GPS data. from Bert Balcaen on Vimeo. Here are some notes on how I got there.

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My favorite computer vision project

By balcaen.bert@iaac.net | Published: November 19, 2012

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

By balcaen.bert@iaac.net | Published: November 19, 2012

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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Progress on GPS visualization project for the data workshop, part 2

By balcaen.bert@iaac.net | Published: November 18, 2012

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 [...]

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Progress on GPS visualization project for the data workshop

By balcaen.bert@iaac.net | Published: November 17, 2012

See: data workshop I wanted to get a feeling for the data so I started off by creating a quick and dirty Processing sketch that visualizes the location data recorded with AntiMap. I used Unfolding Maps, a very complete and well-made library for using maps inside Processing. Here is a screenshot. That felt very static, [...]

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