Face / Mimik tracking in AS3

Juli 20th, 2009 • 2 comments ar, computervision, flash, hot, math, nerdlab

http://play.blog2t.net/terminator-salvation-realtime-machine-vision-as3/

Once again Tomek alias Og2t wrote a great flash demo. This time its about machine vision and just awesome. It’s motion based head / eyetracking with a lot of cool “hacks” like blob detection – histogram analysis – motion detection and more. Furthermore Tomek wants to provide a full framework.

This is a part of the whole video filter framework I am developing just now, the inspiration came from Joa Ebert’s Image Processing library (as far as I know, he’s cooking a complete rewrite). The full source code (including Pixel Bender kernels and examples) will be soon released on Google Code and will feature face/eye tracking/gestures and few other things (surprise!) A lot of people are very sceptic about the whole eye tracking idea, they don’t believe it’s precise enough to make any use of it – I will prove that it is, and it works! (just watch closely how it tracks my eyeballs on the video!)

I tried it, but I still prefer the camshift algorithm for face detection. Anyway: GREAT WORK!

NES – notebooksleeve. Hell YEAH!

Juli 14th, 2009 • art, creative, design, hot, retro

Well hm – I’m really really jealous.

Mendicon received this cool netbook sleeve from his girlfriend. He says, “This NES controller sleeve was made by my girlfriend Lilian for me to use it on my Acer Aspire One netbook. Best netbook sleeve ever, from best girlfriend ever!”

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awesome clock

Juli 13th, 2009 • 2 comments art, creative, design, hot

I would by one. Purism win

Unfortunately its only a concept :(

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thisissand.com

Juli 11th, 2009 • art, flash, hot

Create art with sand at thisissand.com – or look at some drawings

Ar in 2d – video and demo

Juli 9th, 2009 • 15 comments ar, computervision, creative, demo, flash, hot, lab, nerdlab

Here is the promised video to my augmented reality in 2d post

You can test it here

Description:

1. Click on color
2. Click on other color
3. Tracking starts – white circles
4. Try catching the black rect edges
5. enjoy

Sourcecode:

• This time just on email and (at this time) not for commercial use
• download here
  

SURF the next big thing

Juli 9th, 2009 • ar, art, computervision, hot, idea, lab, math, nerdlab

SURF is a computer vision technique which helps doing crazy things ;) Here is some footage showing whats possible. NOTE: no flash implementation yet ;) – I think it wouldn’t work -> performance

openFrameworks & OpenCV SURF from postspectacular on Vimeo.

Augmenting a Postcard from Julian Oliver on Vimeo.

Augmented Reality in 2D

Juli 8th, 2009 • 3 comments ar, computervision, creative, flash, hot, idea, lab, nerdlab

Once again I experimented with webcam, augmented reality and flash. Inspired by camspace.com this time I wanted to see if its posible to map a video on a rect which is moved and resized by colored objects.

Tomorrow I will post a screencast and a demo. so you can see it in action. I can’t post the sources right now but I’m on it.

Help fighting childporn. no-kids.org

Juli 2nd, 2009 • creative, flash, general, hot, idea

Today we launched a project I’m really proud of. A website that works against childporn.How does it work? You can find detailed info on no-kids.org.

Here is a summary:

You’re trusting an applet. This applet works like a limewire / frostwire client. It fakes files – pretending you’ve childporn on your pc, which you DON’T have! When a pedophile searches or tries to download such a file our website gets informed and visualises the query / download.

We just want to visualise the density of childporn usage, NOT where “these people” are located (tracking the exact position is not possible – and hopefully never will). The downloader/pedophile – downloads a fake file which PROVIDES HELP.