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Classes

Spring 2009

Electronic Technologies for Art

Electronic Technologies for Art

Winter 2010

Electronic Technologies for Art

Electronic Technologis for Art I

Spring 2010

Time and Process Based Digital Media

Course page

Time and Process Based Digital Media

Frameworks

Advanced Video Processing

Language Processing for Art

Workshop

Language Processing and Self-Representation

• Representation:
  • Wordles
• online textual self-representation: the giant text semantic repository in the sky
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • gmail
• semantic annotation and tagging of other media
  • flickr descriptions
  • youtube
• the ongoing-conversation
  • comments sections
• traditional text databases
  • news media
  • nytimes
  • wsj corpus
• tools / techniques / technologies
• Computer Mediated Communications (CMC)
• Social Information Processing (SIP)
  • Ellison, N., Heino, R., & Gibbs, J. (2006). Managing impressions online: Self-presentation processes in the online dating environment. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(2), article 2. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue2/ellison.html
• http://fredstutzman.com/academic.html
• Stutzman, F. (2008) The Spatial Production of Friendship. Re-Public special issue: Towards a critique of the social web http://fredstutzman.com/pubs/stutzman_republic.pdf
• Herring, S. C. (2003a). Gender and power in online communication. In J. Holmes & M. Meyerhoff (Eds.), The handbook of language and gender (pp. 202-228). Oxford: Blackwell. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2022/1024/WP01-05B.html
• Yee, N., & Bailenson, J. (in press). The Proteus Effect: The Effect of Transformed. Self-Representation on Behavior. Human Communication Research. http://www.stanford.edu/~bailenso/papers/proteus%20effect.pdf
• Lampe, C. A., Ellison, N., and Steinfield, C. 2007. A familiar face(book): profile elements as signals in an online social network. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (San Jose, California, USA, April 28 - May 03, 2007). CHI '07. ACM, New York, NY, 435-444. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1240624.1240695 http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=1240695&type=pdf&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=36075291&CFTOKEN=36956775
• H Liu, P Maes, G Davenport. Unraveling the taste fabric of social networks. Selected Readings on the Human Side of Information …, 2008 http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.83.7198&rep=rep1&type=pdf
• Social Network
  • Friend of A Friend (FOAF)

Proposals

EMPAC

Language Research

Closed Captioning

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_captioning

Teleprompter

Language for performance Teleprompter

Wordnet similarity

wordnet::similarity word vectors

• coffee#n#1: nutmeg, preparation, coffee_tree, caffeine, pulverized, coffee, arabia, tea, shelf_life, packed, hot_water, drinking, topped, java, lemon_peel, ordered, cognac, irish_whiskey, beverage, perforated, cup, sweetened, infusion, espresso, cream, boiling, dehydrated, finely, whipped_cream, stimulating, bitter, cinnamon, alkaloid
• cup#n#1: loaded, drunk, disposable, mustache, coffee, boxlike, tea, saucer, footed, drinking, eucharistic, collectively, tableware, bowl, cup, standardized, greece, rim, toast, missing, ancient_greek, drinking_vessel

• rifle#n#1: automatic_rifle, loads, loading, rifle, action_mechanism, bore, barrel, butt_end, breech, cartridge, fired, sliding, firearm, shotgun, lever, armored, shoulder_holster, portable, lifted, semiautomatic, forward_motion, rifled
• work#n#1: dry_rot, busywork, willing, machine_tool, technology, practical, barn, shiny, undertaking, productive, wages, inquiring, waiting, unit_of_time, preliminary, cleansing, substitute, incomplete, obliged, operations, a_great_deal, rubbing, washed, separately, ophelia, outstanding, interesting, waxing, stocks, attending, papers, labor, thoroughly, heavy_lifting, wasnt, municipal, succeed, missionary, hoped, further, mechanical, medical_care, barber, assigned, meager, budget, course_of_study, attempted, disadvantaged, boss, routine, damaging, close_to, done_for, grade, directed, systematically, recreational, duties, checked, shining, shoes, piece_of_work, polishing, sunday, soap, gawkers, leave_of_absence, improve, no_longer, cleaning, housewife, handling
• neck: sternum, collarbone, hanging, immunity, human_being, cartilaginous, externally, cervix, aids, elderly, body_part, glandular, rings, flex, mastoid, clavicle, admired, occipital_bone, arteries, larynx, membranous, inhaled, aorta, fold, obliquely, artery, ductless, spine, on_fire, chin, graceful
• rifle#n#1 <-> neck#n#1 = 0.0728235790450328

Generative Video through NLP

• making edits based on semantic content
  • sequence
  • cut points?
  • decisions based on character names?
• aesthetic strategies for text
  • side-scrolling text
  • intertitles
  • subtitles
  • titles
• aesthetic strategies for photos
  • Ken Burns effect
  • simulated motion
    • motion blur [Main_Page#Motion Blur]
    • camera shake
    • applying motion parameters extracted from real-life situation
• aesthetic strategies for video
  • specifically... diverse collections of heterogenous clips and documentation
  • video collection strategies

similarity measures

Calculating the similarity of two phrases, with the goal of finding more related matches. Example: "ocean at night" to "still life, objects around the studio" versus "cat tails at the ocean"

• http://www.google.com/search?q=calculate+similarity+of+two+phrases&hl=en&start=20&sa=N
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/70560/how-do-i-compare-phrases-for-similarity
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_classification
• Phrase-based Document Similarity Based on an Index Graph Model http://www2007.org/papers/paper632.pdf
• http://pami.uwaterloo.ca/pub/hammouda/hammouda_icdm02.pdf

NLP

Optical Character Recognition

• tesseract-ocr [1]
• ocropus [2] layout analysis, tesseract is a plugin

word evolution study at University of Reading

• Professor Mark Pagel http://www.evolution.reading.ac.uk/
• ThamesBlue

language associations

Closed Captioning

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_captioning

Projector hacks

DIY Projector from LCD panel

• datasheet from the LCD screen of my old laptop http://www.datasheet4u.com/download.php?id=532443

Fabrication

Fabrication

• http://www.physics.ucsd.edu/~tmurphy/phys121/lectures/lectures.html
• http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/MIT/863.07/
• http://www.media.mit.edu/physics/pedagogy/fab/
• http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/MIT/863.08/
• http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/MIT/961.09/
• CMU 39-245 Rapid Design through Virtual and Physical Prototyping
  • silicone mold procedure

fabrication and rapid prototyping

Video

High Resolution Video

• 24P workflow with open source tools [3]
• HDMI capture card (BlackMagic Intensity) [4]
• PCI-Mini and BlackMagic card solution on MBPro [5]

subtitle manipulation

ffmpeg to make a dvd

DV cam as a webcam

• http://www.trackercam.com/TCamWeb/dvdriver.htm

Monitor Mount

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Display_Mounting_Interface
• M4 screws (approx 10mm long), in square 100mm across.

CV

Motion Estimation

• Blind image deconvolution motion blur estimation http://www.ima.umn.edu/2005-2006/MM8.9-18.06/activities/Wohlberg-Brendt/team5_pres.pdf
• Motion Blur Parameter Identification from a Linearly Blurred Image http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/4145986/4099325/04146207.pdf?tp=&isnumber=&arnumber=4146207
• Blind Estimation of Motion Blur Parameters For Image Deconvolution http://www.lx.it.pt/~jpaos/Joao/Joao_Oliveira_files/ibpria2007_motionblur.pdf

Identity Processing

• Face recognition
  • http://www.face-rec.org/
• Face detection
  • with opencv: http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/FaceDetection

Books

Auto-generating Books

• render txt files to whole-page images

Windows hacking

slipstream windows install

live CDs

XP from USB stick

• article [6]
• forum [7]
• microsoft CAB SDK [8]
• WinISO [9]
• from make magazine [10]

Corn Fed Nation

corn fed nation

E-Ink Facemask

• broadsheet proto kit ($4000) http://www.eink.com/kits/amepd.html
  • http://eink.com/kits/Broadsheetinitial_v7.pdf
• http://griplipproductions.homestead.com/facecast.html

Misc

decision making algorithms

• OODA Loop (for Observe, Orient, Decide and Act)
• John Boyd. http://www.d-n-i.net/boyd/pdf/c&c.pdf
• Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA, Shewhart) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shewhart_cycle
• sigma six, “Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control” (DMAIC)

MedTech

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

• http://transcenmentalism.org/OpenStim

[MedTech]]

Map-Reduce

• http://www.igvita.com/2009/03/03/collaborative-map-reduce-in-the-browser/

Massive Data Storage

AJAX versus traditional web design

Enabling OBEX with motorola Razr V3c