Concatenative Video Synthesis (or Video Mosaicing)
Working closely with my adviser Mick Grierson, I have developed a way to resynthesize existing videos using material from another set of videos. This process starts by learning a database of objects that appear in the set of videos …
Facial Appearance Modeling/Tracking
I’ve been working on developing a method for automatic head-pose tracking, and along the way have come to model facial appearances. I start by initializing a facial bounding box using the Viola-Jones detector, a well known and robust detector used …
Tim J Smith guest blogs for David Bordwell
Tim J Smith, expert in scene perception and film cognition, and of The DIEM project [1] recently starred as a guest blogger for David Bordwell, a leading film theorist with an impressive list of books and publications widely …
Responsive Ecologies Documentation
As part of a system of numerous dynamic connections and networks, we are reactive and deterministic to a complex system of cause and effect. The consequence of our actions upon our selves, the society we live in and the broader …
Streaming Motion Capture Data from the Kinect using OSC on Mac OSX
This guide will help to get you running PrimeSense NITE’s Skeleton Tracking inside XCode on your OSX. It will also help you stream that data in case you’d like to use it in another environment such as Max. An example …
Responsive Ecologies Exhibition
Come checkout the Waterman’s Art Centre from the 6th of December until the 21st of January for an immersive and interactive visual experience entitled “Responsive Ecologies” developed in collaboration with artists captincaptin. We will also be giving a talk …