fastICA in AS3
[click the image above for a demonstration] I’m not going to spend a lot of time explaining what fastICA is, or what Independent Component Analysis is in general, but if you need it in Actionscript and you’ve been looking for it, here it is.
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I Can Read Your Pulse by Webcam
[click the image above to try it yourself] The above is the latest version of a labor of love I’ve been working on, based on research coming out of the MIT Media Lab. Turns out the veeeery minute changes in color of your skin tone can, frame-by-frame, be read and decoded to arrive at a [...]
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Face Tracking Research – DroidDoes.com
[click above to view a short video (I show up at 00:11)] Last spring one of the guys on the team whipped up a fun little Flash game that used motion tracking (via frame-differencing) to have a boxing glove follow the user’s hand around the screen, batting away projectiles. It was cute and fluffy, but [...]
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Building a Social Media Listening Platform from scratch
[click above to view a short video] The brief from management was to build a system capable of collecting brand mentions from all over the web, organizing and analyzing them, and then displaying them on an interface that we could distribute to our clients and account managers. Mcgarrybowen needed its very own Social Media Listening [...]
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