It has been many years since my first bike video, and today I finally get to publish my second one. My acquisition of a GoPro HD Hero 960 earlier this year motivated me to finally get around to making a new BMX video (though I am ashamed that I had never made any other videos until now!). This second … Read more
Shameless plug (It’s my blog though), but I’m truly being honest when I say: I use FeedSpeak every single day. FeedSpeak has become such a part of how I get my news and updates, that I don’t know what I would do without it. Of all the things I have worked on, be it software … Read more
On a whim, I decided to make a word cloud of all the content on my blog, as of the evening of Sept 17, 2012 (dating back to June 30, 2010). Word clouds are fun and very easy to make with services such as Wordle (though I happened to have used IBM Word Cloud Generator in this case). I … Read more
About one year ago, I wrote about a simple example of Image Processing with LibJacket + OpenCV… and the trend continues today. In this post, I demonstrate how ArrayFire (an improved version of LibJacket) can easily interop with OpenCV, through a simple example of unsharp maksing (local contrast enhancement). Program Flow: Capture steaming webcam … Read more
I recently upgraded my phone from a Motorola Droid X to a Samsung Galaxy S3 (finally!), and WOW what a difference! Below is a giant chart comparing the two phones, but first I’ll list some random thoughts about owning and using the GS3. Not surprisingly, everything about the Galaxy S III is just amazing! When … Read more
At the beginning of this year, I decided (at the last minute!) to embark on a “take a photo every day” journey. I had never done anything like it before, and thought it would be a fun way to learn and practice photography (i’m still a n00b). At first, to ensure I make good use of … Read more
This is something I’ve been meaning to do for years: make a real chain necklace from one of my old broken bmx bike chains. Well, I finally got around to cleaning off all the grease, shortening it to the right length, and of course, using a paperclip as the latch 🙂 . This goes well … Read more
I got my first “nice” camera early last year, and soon realized I needed a nice way to organize my photos. At first, I decided to use Picasa because it seemed to have a nice beginner interface, and more importantly, it “worked” in Linux. For most of the year, I got by with Picasa for organization and Gimp for … Read more
I got another incredible opportunity to give two introductory talks at Nvidia’s 2012 GPU Technology Conference about AccelerEyes‘s two software products: Jacket(MATLAB) and ArrayFire(C++) ! Jacket for Multidimensional Scaling in Genomics – Video | Slides ArrayFire Graphics: A Tutorial – Video | Slides Enjoy!
My final project for the Computational Photography class at GaTech. Multi-scale image contrast/detail manipulation Operating on images at multiple scales is conventionally done using multi-scale decompositions, such as the Laplacian pyramid [Burt and Adelson 1983]. Such techniques decompose an image to multiple detail layers at different scales in a pyramid like fashion. This project demonstrates how … Read more