Category: image recognition

  • ICAD Kinect Demos….

    On May 17, 2011 Ryersons’ Interactive Computing Applications and Design Group (ICAD) demonstrated their latest projects. The session starts with a demonstration of using Microsoft Kinect hardware to control a computer mouse. Next, the group shows the use of a gestural interface to control Google Earth, followed by a demo of using Kinect to control…

  • Five minute Augmented Reality via Quartz Composer….

    Great little video on how to setup AR marker recognition under QC. Even has a nice mellow background music :-).

  • Nuit Blanche: Multitorch

    Toronto Nuit Blanche was a blast. For those of you who don’t know: Nuit Blanche (literally White Night or All-Nighter in French) is an annual all-night arts festival. Its exact beginning is disputed between Paris, St Petersburg, and Berlin, but, taking elements from all of these, the idea of a night-time festival of the arts…

  • TinEye Image Finger Printing Technology….Find out who’s stealing your images

    Just came across Idée’s new baby, TinEye. Have you ever wondered why it is that you can’t just go to google images (or similar image search engine) and look for images based on image content and not tags, names and such. Well it’s because it’s damn hard to do and frankly until now I haven’t…