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My Life
Right Vision: Utilizing Optical Flow to Prevent Right Turn Accidents
Dec 17th
Oh boy, this is going to get geeky. Today, me and my group finished our 3rd semester project after three months of very hard work. The semester theme was Human Senses – Digital Perception, and was mainly focused on using computer vision. We ended up creating a cyclist protection system, which can detect a cyclist in a right turn situation and warn the driver. The system is implemented in C++ using Intel’s computer vision library, OpenCV, for various image processing functions. Basically, the system, called Right Vision, estimates what is called optical flow (the apparent motion of objects, surfaces and edges) and performs segmentation based on objects’ and the background’s vanishing points to detect a cyclist from a dynamic video feed mounted on a moving car.
Estimating right-to-left movements.
This semester at Medialogy was the first in which I really felt that I learned something useful. I have always wanted to learn C++ and learning how to implement various image processing techniques such as thresholding, edge detection and compound operations at the same time was very effective.
The entire project ended with a 97 page report, which can be downloaded here.
Tumblrized
May 28th
Hello non-existing blog reader, I’ve started blogging more on my tumblr instead of here, so if you and your non-existing friends want to read about stuff I like head over to my tumblr on mattsson.tumblr.com and follow me there. Peace.
Focusing and Freelancing
Mar 28th
I’m going to a focus group at Danish video game company IO Interactive, this wednesday. My friend Simon works there, as a game tester, and he forwarded a mail about it. It’s gonna take 2-3 hours, and I think it’ll be a lot of fun. I’m also about to organize focus groups at school, as part of our semester project, so it’ll be nice to see how the pros do it.
I’ve also been freelancing for SDI Media for a while. They make language dubbing, translations, subtitling, etc. for clients like Sony, Fox, Warner Bros., and Paramount. I’m translating subtitles, and that’s really all I can say, they didn’t make me sign a 5 page confidentiality agreement for nothing.
Oh yeah, my Macbook is making weird creaking sounds when I move my hand around, on the left side, so I probably have to have it replaced. Crap.
I’m in Copenhagen!
Aug 11th
Today I moved into an apartment in Hvidovre, with two of my friends. The apartment is 75 sqm., and the rent is 9.500,- including power and water. It’s right next to Føtex, Aldi and the train station (10 minutes from the main train station), so it’s pretty much awesome. I have three weeks of chilling, until school starts at AAU in Ballerup. I’m going to study Medialogy. Until then I’ll probably see a shitload of movies and enjoy our entertainment center, in our living room, which has been named, rightfully so, “Room of Pure Awesomeness”:
What you’re looking at is a 32″ HD flatscreen TV, digital 5.1 surround sound, a PlayStation 2, Wii, Xbox 360, Nintendo 64 and Sega Mega Drive.
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