Thursday, October 18, 2007

Optical Illusions

The Whitest Boy Alive made a funky tune with a really funny video...



I originally found it on the super nice media site neave.tv

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Yo world

Hi! This blog is first and foremost an attempt to communicate the thoughts, experiences, epiphanies and results (or lack of...) that I come by in my studies of computer vision and graphics at Aalborg University Copenhagen. I will probably also sometimes bore you with details about the everyday life of a single 29 year old wanna-be geek living alone with a 1.5MB cable connection in a two room flat in Copenhagen, Denmark...

Okay..well...These days I'm deciding on a project for my current 9th semester. In Aalborg University every semester has a theme and a rather substantial project should be made on a topic related to this theme. The theme this semester is graphics.

So I have really been thinking a lot on what to work with. Augmented reality is pretty cool...




But I have had this idea for a while that it would be hilarious to animate cartoon faces real time based on video input. I mean to apply color and texture of the Hulk to an on-screen face in real time, e.g . during a video conference. Or to animate my Second Life avatars' face via my webcam...

So I looked on the internet and found that some clever guys from Carnegie Mellon have been dealing with part of the problem before. I talked to my supervisor, Daniel, about it and it seems he's ok with the idea. Me, I think it could be a really awesome application, but it worries me a bit that it's not already out there. The project could be a very big mouthful...well, I'll keep you posted.