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"this project is bringing the power of computer vision and image processing to the Web. By extending the spec of Media Capture and Streams, the web developers can write video processing related applications in better way. The primary idea is to incorporate Worker-based JavaScript video processing with MediaStreamTrack."

Recent Royal College of Art (RCA) design graduate David Hedberg's Smile TV is more than a loving homage to the good old 'campfire inside the living room.' Made from an open frame CRT monitor and equipped with a computer vision system, the unsuspecting television set turns the medium's engagement pattern on its head: instead of making you smile at on-screen silliness, you have to "smile to watch." Only when you do - and for as long as you do - will Smile TV reveal its otherwise scrambled broadcast. "This project grew out from experimenting with facial recognition and image manipulation," Hedberg explains over email.

"Timeline Storyteller is an expressive browser-based visual storytelling environment for presenting timelines. You can use Timeline Storyteller to present different aspects of your data using a palette of timeline representations, scales, and layouts, as well as controls for filtering, highlighting, and annotation. You can export images of a timeline or assemble and record a story about your data and present it within the application. "

"Amazon Rekognition to detect and recognize hundreds of thousands of individuals who are famous, noteworthy, or prominent in their field, from movies, television, politics, business, and sports. The Celebrity Recognition feature allows you to index and quickly search digital image libraries for celebrities based on your particular interest"

"XIMPEL is a free open-source platform to create interactive media applications. To this end, it uses the HTML5 standard, as well as the open XML description format. Using XIMPEL, it is possible to weave together video, audio, images and other media, thus creating interactive videos and other touch-based web applications. XIMPEL's modular approach allows for flexibility and extendibility."