Google Earth + Atlantis Space Shuttle
I managed to catch the live feed from NASA.gov of the Atlantis Space Shuttle launch yesterday. Though what I found really interesting was a real-time virtual reality of the space shuttle launch from inside Google Earth. Screen-capture with obligatory 12x …
Lunch Bites @ CULTURE Lab, Newcastle University
I was recently invited to the CULTURE lab at Newcastle University by director, Atau Tanaka. I would say it has the resources and creative power of 5 departments all housed in one spacious building. In the 12-some studios housed over …
Creative Community Spaces in INDIA
Jaaga – Creative Common Ground
Bangalore
http://www.jaaga.in/
CEMA – Center for Experimental Media Arts at Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology
Bangalore
http://cema.srishti.ac.in/site/
Bar1 – non-profit exchange programme by artists for artists to foster the local, Indian and international …
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 …
Short Time Fourier Transform using the Accelerate framework
Using the libraries pkmFFT and pkm::Mat, you can very easily perform a highly optimized short time fourier transform (STFT) with direct access to a floating-point based object.
Get the code on my github:
http://github.com/pkmital/pkmFFT
Depends also on: http://github.com/pkmital/pkmMatrix…
Real FFT/IFFT with the Accelerate Framework
Apple’s Accelerate Framework can really speed up your code without thinking too much. And it will also run on an iPhone. Even still, I did bang my head a few times trying to get a straightforward Real FFT and IFFT …