Impressions and Talk Recommendations. Finally, a couple of days with normal people ...
Honestly I was impressed by the professionalism of the 30th Chaos Communication Congress. It changed a lot from the last time I visited ( 25c3), grew bigger without loosing its atmosphere. With the assemblies and workshops the event starts to get more and more interactive.
I link to the youtube streams of the recordings yet you can get them also over at media.ccc.de
[Read More]Discussing activity recognition for the Mind and its potential applications.
Here are my talk slides for my 30c3 talk … Sorry it took so long. Thanks for the great feedback, will write a bit more if I have sometime ;)
The video is also online. This happened very quick after the event. I’m impressed by the 30c3 content team.
Thanks a lot for the great reviews and suggestions. They are highly appreciated. You can still review the talk.
[Read More]So I got my hands on another Glass device and can now play with it a bit longer.
Disclaimer: Rooting and flashing your device voids your warranty and can brick your Glass. Also you won’t receive OTA updates afterwards. This is not an instruction manual. I just use it as a scratch pad to give a record what I did and what worked for me. The commands below will erase all data on your device. Proceed at your own risk.
[Read More]An interview made me wonder about how reading habits are changing and how we will narrate stories in the future.
Recently, I gave an interview for the German online issue of the Scientific American (Spectrum der Wissenschaft) for a special about reading habits (in German, paywall).
As I’m interested in the topic, I often hear that “endless scrolling” is bad as it destroys the mental map we make of books and pages or that reading from backlit screens is eye-straining inducing headaches. Personally, I cannot really understand these complaints. I’m doing most of my reading on tablet devices or computer screens though I never experienced these problems directly.
[Read More]Cool research discussions at a nice location. The workshop was perfect fit to my research interests.
The ASVAI workshop gave a good overview about several research efforts part of and related to the JST CREST and the JSPS Core-to-Core Sanken Program.
Prof. Yasushi Yagi showed how to infer intention from gait analysis. Interestingly, he showed research about the relationship of gaze and gait.
Dr. Alireza Fathi presented cool work about ego centric cameras. He showed how to estimate gaze using ego centric cameras during cooking tasks and psychological studies.
[Read More]How my grandparents interact with GLASS, showed me that Google seems to be onto something.
As there were a lot of researchers visiting for the Ubicomp /ISWC conferences, I could grab a Google Glass from one of the participants for a week. Thanks to the anonymous donor (to avoid speculations it was none of the people mentioned below). In the following some unsorted thoughts … Sorry for typos etc. It’s more a scratch pad so I don’t forget the impressions I had.
[Read More]Usually, I’m not such a big fan of conference openings, yet Friedemann Mattern provided a great intro giving an overview about the origins of Pervasive and Ubicom mentioning all important people and showing nice vintage pictures from Hans Gellersen, Alois Ferscha, Marc Langheinrich, Albrecht Schmidt, Kristof Van Laerhoven etc.
Deeply impressed by the organization, social and general talk quality, I was a bit sceptical before the merger of Pervasive / Ubicom and collocating ISWC, yet it was completely unfounded.
[Read More]This year I’m really looking forward to Ubicomp and ISWC, it’s the first time that Ubicomp and Pervasive merged into one conference and it’s the first time the venue sold out with 700 participants.
I cannot wait to chat with old friends and experts (most are both :)).
The field slowly matures. Especially, the wearable research is really pushing towards prime-time. Most prominently, Google Glass is getting a lot of focus also discussing its impacts on privacy. Yet, there is more and more talk about fitness bracelets/trackers and smart watches. I expect that we see more intelligent clothes and activity recognition work in commercial products in the coming years.
[Read More]The slides for my two talks today are online now.
For more details, check out the papers:
They are both published at ICDAR 2013.
Just finished my keynote talk at CBDAR (Workshop of ICDAR), got a lot of questions and have a lot of new research ideas :)
I’m pretty ignorant about Document Analysis (and Computer Vision in general), so it’s great to talk to some experts in the field. Pervasive Computing and Document Analysis are very complementary and as such interesting to combine.
Here are my talk slides, followed by the talk abstract.
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