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"Project Tango is Google's attempt to build a device which is intimately acquainted with its surroundings "

"Project Tango is Google's attempt to build a device which is intimately acquainted with its surroundings "

Nothing will be the same again - BBC's Visual Perceptive Media project will end the shared story experience

"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."

Download SDKs, including documentation, samples, and REST wrappers, to develop products using Microsoft Project Oxford

"Voice is natural, voice is human. That's why we're fascinated with creating usable voice technology for our machines. But most of that technology is locked up in a few big corporations and isn't available to the majority of developers. We think that stifles innovation so we're launching Project Common Voice, a project to help make voice recognition open to everyone. Now you can donate your voice to help us build an open-source voice recognition engine that anyone can use to make innovative apps for devices and the web."

You use the Final Cut Pro X app to create, edit, and produce high-quality video. With the Final Cut Pro X XML (FCPXML) format, you can transfer the details of your events and projects between Final Cut Pro X and third-party applications, devices, and media asset management tools that do not natively recognize Final Cut Pro X events or projects. FCPXML 1.6 requires Final Cut Pro X 10.3 or later.

"How might writing, reading and the idea of the book itself change when we use technology to design stories, rather than just present them?"

"Collection of Generative Video Editing Projects:"

"The BBC wants to make videos that change to suit whoever's watching. It's exploring the idea through a research project called Visual Perceptive Media"

"Time is over for shared experiences when watching TV. Based on the answers you give in an app, this video will adjust the story based on your personality and even your mood. Two people won't be watching the same again. "

"Real-time Content Analysis and Processing (ReCAP) is a project co-funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Programme. ReCAP will bring to market a range of automatic content analysis services to form an affordable, scalable and flexible platform designed to enhance metadata-driven media workflows and realise the value of historical content archives."

"Time is over for shared experiences when watching TV. Based on the answers you give in an app, your listening history, gender, age, or location and time of the day, this video will adjust the story based on your personality taking your mood into account. Two people won't be watching a story unfolding in the same way again and even you might experience a different narrative at another time."

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.

"We extract heart rate and beat lengths from videos by measuring subtle head motion caused by the Newtonian reaction to the influx of blood at each beat. Our method tracks features on the head and performs principal component analysis (PCA) to decompose their trajectories into a set of component motions. It then chooses the component that best corresponds to heartbeats based on its temporal frequency spectrum. Finally, we analyze the motion projected to this component and identify peaks of the trajectories, which correspond to heartbeats. When evaluated on 18 subjects, our approach reported heart rates nearly identical to an electrocardiogram device. Additionally we were able to capture clinically relevant information about heart rate variability."

Hackday project (Infinite Gangnam Style), and made it work with any song. The result is The Infinite Jukebox.

BBC R&D is working on a Visual Perceptive Media project that uses information about the viewer to tailor video content. This week we discuss the effect that technology like this might have on advertising, entertainment, and especially education. Imagine what it would be like for a lesson to play your favorite music, reference your favorite movies, or use your favorite colors? That's the type of school we want to go to.

"Alex Farber reports on four projects designed to improve efficiency and evolve storytelling"

"Ambient Literature is a two-year collaboration between UWE Bristol, Bath Spa University and the University of Birmingham, established to investigate the locational and technological future of the book. Funded through a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the project is focused on the study of emergent forms of literature that make use of novel technologies and social practices in order to create robust and evocative experiences for readers. "