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Server based real-time face detection in Flex

This post will demonstrate the feasability of face detection in web cam feeds grabbed by a flash/flex application. It’s inspired by a prototype of Martin Speelmans, informed by my work with Flash and web cams and my experiments with OpenCV. The basic premise is that a flex application running in a users browser grabs web [...]


Playing Pong with your shadow

The technical stuff from the Living Room of Map_of_You was exhibited at the afterparty of the it-natten event at ITU. Instead of moving around furniture-icons, you could play Pong with your shadow. I purchased a Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000 for the event, a superb piece of kit. So superb, in fact, that it proved impossible [...]


Michael helps make a Map_of_You

It all started at the annual ITU party of 2007. Named the “Programmer Party” by the members of (Blank)Banquet, this was the last chance to find a programmer before the Junge Hunde 2007 festival and a strong snatch team was sent. I was there, of course, and happily drunk (of course) and without many protestations, [...]


Actionscript, it’s the new Javascript!

Some time last year, I got my hands on a draft of the Ecmascript 4 (Javascript to you and me) specification, thinking that it would be interesting to implement a reference-implementation for the evolving language (or rather, a non-boring way to get credit towards my degree). I remember being puzzled by the fact that, aside [...]