What is left to say to accurately describe what I'm feeling right now? Mark Renton gives the famous answer:
... take the best orgasm you ever had, multiply it by a thousand and you're still nowhere near it...
I've been nominated to go to Barcelona!!! I really can't believe it, a dream becomes reality and I'm right in the middle of it! :-)
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Monday, April 21, 2008
Saturday, March 22, 2008
[baɾθeˈlona]
As you probably already know, Barcelona is in Spain. Oh yes, it is in fact the second largest city of Spain and has about 1.6 million inhabitants in the actual center of the city. It is surrounded by suburbs which all together include more than 3 million people. Moreover it is the capitol of the independent community of Catalonia and houses the seat of the Catalan government. Barcelona is a major economic center with one of Europe's principal Mediterranean ports.
Facts and numbers would have never convinced me to go there so I decided to check out what's some kind of important for me in particular.
Ok, let's start again.
Remember that Barcelona has a port, which means it is in some kind of way connected to the sea, right? This is good!
Remember that there are lots of people in Barcelona, so nightlife can't be that bad, right? This is good too! To be in accord with that, Barcelona is actually the home of a bunch of my favourite music creating people, The Pinker Tones. Visit their homepage and/or myspace! That is just awesome! :-)
Another criteria is the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. It's a huge university located slightly out of the city which is just fine and their computer science department deals with the topics I'm doing in Vienna. This is perfect! :-)
Facts and numbers would have never convinced me to go there so I decided to check out what's some kind of important for me in particular.
Ok, let's start again.
Remember that Barcelona has a port, which means it is in some kind of way connected to the sea, right? This is good!
Remember that there are lots of people in Barcelona, so nightlife can't be that bad, right? This is good too! To be in accord with that, Barcelona is actually the home of a bunch of my favourite music creating people, The Pinker Tones. Visit their homepage and/or myspace! That is just awesome! :-)
Another criteria is the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. It's a huge university located slightly out of the city which is just fine and their computer science department deals with the topics I'm doing in Vienna. This is perfect! :-)
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
The different cast-ings...
The last three weeks I recovered from hitting a seriously damn hard thing and breaking my right hand. Oh please, don't ask me why or how...
So, I needed to wear a cast for the last 22 days and yes, I'm of course right-handed, so computer belonging actions (and some other actions too :-) were some kind of shut down. I'm very glad that from now on both of my hands are back on the keyboard again.
I have got big plans for the near future. My master study in computer science does great and so I decided to go on Erasmus next term or maybe even the next two terms. For those of you who don't know what the fuck this is, here is a little explanation:
The term Erasmus refers to an European initiative for students exchanges. It means something like European Region Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students. Phew... So, different faculties from many European countries connect to each other and provide space for students from abroad to get to know their culture, language and their field of study.
It is the last time I can go on Erasmus within my current study and so I'm really looking forward to get a nomination. The deadline to bring in my application is on the 15th of April. Please wish me good luck!
And finally here are my nominees:
KTH Stockholm (SWE)
UAB Barcelona (E)
I would really love living in both cities for a while and so I'm very excited where I'm finally going to go. See you soon with more information!
So, I needed to wear a cast for the last 22 days and yes, I'm of course right-handed, so computer belonging actions (and some other actions too :-) were some kind of shut down. I'm very glad that from now on both of my hands are back on the keyboard again.
I have got big plans for the near future. My master study in computer science does great and so I decided to go on Erasmus next term or maybe even the next two terms. For those of you who don't know what the fuck this is, here is a little explanation:
The term Erasmus refers to an European initiative for students exchanges. It means something like European Region Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students. Phew... So, different faculties from many European countries connect to each other and provide space for students from abroad to get to know their culture, language and their field of study.
It is the last time I can go on Erasmus within my current study and so I'm really looking forward to get a nomination. The deadline to bring in my application is on the 15th of April. Please wish me good luck!
And finally here are my nominees:
KTH Stockholm (SWE)
I would really love living in both cities for a while and so I'm very excited where I'm finally going to go. See you soon with more information!
Thursday, November 15, 2007
5th and last time VR...
The 5th assignment has been successfully completed. The task was to write a little C++ application which is able to track the marker sheets and to do some sort of collision warning. If the sheets come too close together one cube (the one from which the distance is measured) has to turn red. the given distance is defined by the small sphere on the bottom right. It's radius can be changed by pressing and releasing the mouse button.
We do now have all the necessery information to produce some enhanced work. Therefore we will work together in groups of three for the next few weeks. Our plan is to program a computer game which takes place in augmented reality. It will be some sort of a tankblaster-clone. I'm feeling pretty tense about how it's going to look like. I'll give you more information next time.
Yours truly, Max
We do now have all the necessery information to produce some enhanced work. Therefore we will work together in groups of three for the next few weeks. Our plan is to program a computer game which takes place in augmented reality. It will be some sort of a tankblaster-clone. I'm feeling pretty tense about how it's going to look like. I'll give you more information next time.
Yours truly, Max
Thursday, November 8, 2007
2nd, 3rd and 4th time VR...
... and Nice in between.
Phew! The last two and a half weeks were both exhausting and really beautiful too. I made myself a little present to celebrate the graduation and so I travelled to Nice to visit my girlfriend Sarah. She is currently living there to enjoy all the advantages the Côte d'Azur provides even in wintertime. And of course she's doing some university courses too... :-)
One of the following posts will be a detailed report of my journey combined with a selection of more than 150 pictures I took. As well, I'm thinking of creating a Picasa web album to upload my pictures there.
Before I left Vienna I needed to perform the second and the third assignment of the 'Virtual and Augmented Reality' course. Again we had to take screenshots of our work and us. Here's what I got out of the second one:
We needed to accept two marker sheets showing two cubes whereupon the user (i.e. me) was able to change the color of one cube by pressing a button on the keyboard. Well, that was not too difficult again.
The third assignment was a little trickier but really funny:
The software supports some kinds of simple geometrical figures like cubes as you have seen in the previous pictures and other ones like cylinders, spheres or cones. So our task was to create either an alien or a robot standing, sitting, resting, whatever on a base plate. You can choose by yourself whether my figure has to be declared as an alien or a robot. :-)
I performed the 4th task when I got home from Nice. It has been the last and therefore indeed the trickiest one of all so far:
Again we had to accept two marker sheets and to perform some mathematical computations. You can see the normal vector and the vertices of the markers. In the top left corner of the picture you can see (if you can actually read it, I can't because of the damn color) the distance between both of the markers and the focus of the camera. This distance is computed in centimeters and will be the actual distance in the real world. The third line shows the actual distance between the two markers.
The most difficult thing was to compute the grey cylinder which connects the midpoints of the two markers. Well, the actual position wouldn't have been so difficult to compute but you have to remember that the position of the marker sheets can be anywhere in front of the camera. It's up to the user to decide. So the grey cylinder has to follow the movement of the marker sheets and has to be placed correctly in between with the corresponding length and everything has to be in realtime.
Please enjoy the pictures and explanations. There will be more next week when the 5th and last assignment has to be finished.
Bye-bye! Max
Phew! The last two and a half weeks were both exhausting and really beautiful too. I made myself a little present to celebrate the graduation and so I travelled to Nice to visit my girlfriend Sarah. She is currently living there to enjoy all the advantages the Côte d'Azur provides even in wintertime. And of course she's doing some university courses too... :-)
One of the following posts will be a detailed report of my journey combined with a selection of more than 150 pictures I took. As well, I'm thinking of creating a Picasa web album to upload my pictures there.
Before I left Vienna I needed to perform the second and the third assignment of the 'Virtual and Augmented Reality' course. Again we had to take screenshots of our work and us. Here's what I got out of the second one:
We needed to accept two marker sheets showing two cubes whereupon the user (i.e. me) was able to change the color of one cube by pressing a button on the keyboard. Well, that was not too difficult again.
The third assignment was a little trickier but really funny:
The software supports some kinds of simple geometrical figures like cubes as you have seen in the previous pictures and other ones like cylinders, spheres or cones. So our task was to create either an alien or a robot standing, sitting, resting, whatever on a base plate. You can choose by yourself whether my figure has to be declared as an alien or a robot. :-)
I performed the 4th task when I got home from Nice. It has been the last and therefore indeed the trickiest one of all so far:
Again we had to accept two marker sheets and to perform some mathematical computations. You can see the normal vector and the vertices of the markers. In the top left corner of the picture you can see (if you can actually read it, I can't because of the damn color) the distance between both of the markers and the focus of the camera. This distance is computed in centimeters and will be the actual distance in the real world. The third line shows the actual distance between the two markers.
The most difficult thing was to compute the grey cylinder which connects the midpoints of the two markers. Well, the actual position wouldn't have been so difficult to compute but you have to remember that the position of the marker sheets can be anywhere in front of the camera. It's up to the user to decide. So the grey cylinder has to follow the movement of the marker sheets and has to be placed correctly in between with the corresponding length and everything has to be in realtime.
Please enjoy the pictures and explanations. There will be more next week when the 5th and last assignment has to be finished.
Bye-bye! Max
Monday, October 22, 2007
Bachelor of science :-)
Yes, we made it! Last Thursday we completed our assigment by presenting our research project to the head of the 'Interactive Media Systems Group'. Right from the beginning he was pretty confident about our work. Indeed we were all sightly nervous that day but I really have to say that the whole presentation has been performed in a very comfortable way. It has been more of a cooperative discussion than an exam. I really liked it.
Well, it has been the last part missing on my way to the graduation. By now I can bring in all of my certifications to finish my bachelor degree.
What else can I say? I'm really really really really very happy right now! :-)
Best Regards, Max
Well, it has been the last part missing on my way to the graduation. By now I can bring in all of my certifications to finish my bachelor degree.
What else can I say? I'm really really really really very happy right now! :-)
Best Regards, Max
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
1st time VR...
Good news! Today I finished the first assignment of the 'Virtual and Augmented Reality' lecture. It has been some introductive work to get basic experiences of what is virtual and/or augmented reality and how it can be done.
We had to configure all the software one needs to perform light testing sessions at home. Therefore I had to fight against some badass Visual C++ difficulties and to print out calibration and marker sheets for my webcam. Afterwards I needed to configure the 'Studierstube' software which does all of the image tracking work. It is a common project of both Universities of Technology of Graz and Vienna. Finally I simply had to calibrate my webcam. You don't want to know what this means... ;-)
To prove that it has been me who did all the work I had to take a screenshot of myself together with one virtual object and my matriculation number.
So here's what I got out of it. Note that the blue cube on the right is indeed a virtually created object. This means it is not actually there. It is projected by the 'Studierstube' software and follows the movement of the marker sheet in a completely real way. As well the correct illumination of the cube is computed by the software:
It's really not too difficult yet and as you can see it makes a lot of fun. I really love this work and perhaps this is kind of a thing I want to do for a living in the future. :-)
Yours, Max
We had to configure all the software one needs to perform light testing sessions at home. Therefore I had to fight against some badass Visual C++ difficulties and to print out calibration and marker sheets for my webcam. Afterwards I needed to configure the 'Studierstube' software which does all of the image tracking work. It is a common project of both Universities of Technology of Graz and Vienna. Finally I simply had to calibrate my webcam. You don't want to know what this means... ;-)
To prove that it has been me who did all the work I had to take a screenshot of myself together with one virtual object and my matriculation number.
So here's what I got out of it. Note that the blue cube on the right is indeed a virtually created object. This means it is not actually there. It is projected by the 'Studierstube' software and follows the movement of the marker sheet in a completely real way. As well the correct illumination of the cube is computed by the software:
It's really not too difficult yet and as you can see it makes a lot of fun. I really love this work and perhaps this is kind of a thing I want to do for a living in the future. :-)
Yours, Max
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Terminator 2000 and seven?
Or maybe 2000 and eight?!
As you can see there is still no BSc in front of my name. Apparently we did not finish our work yet. Well, the programming and testing phases are now over and the program itself should be ready for shipping. Unfortunately we still have some documentation work to do. In fact it has been some serious research work and so of course we have to think about our final conclusions. But the really good news is this will finally be the very last thing we have to to. :-)
In the meantime the saga continues! A new term has begun offering loads of different perspectives. Since the introduction courses have finally been eliminated we are now ready to contemplate what really is media informatics. Here are some of the courses I take this term:
As you can see there is still no BSc in front of my name. Apparently we did not finish our work yet. Well, the programming and testing phases are now over and the program itself should be ready for shipping. Unfortunately we still have some documentation work to do. In fact it has been some serious research work and so of course we have to think about our final conclusions. But the really good news is this will finally be the very last thing we have to to. :-)
In the meantime the saga continues! A new term has begun offering loads of different perspectives. Since the introduction courses have finally been eliminated we are now ready to contemplate what really is media informatics. Here are some of the courses I take this term:
- Virtual and Augmented Reality
-- Computer Graphics 2
--- Multimedia Communication
-- Introduction to Pattern Recognition
- Visualization of Information
Inherently their names are beautiful, right? :-)
See you! Max
-- Computer Graphics 2
--- Multimedia Communication
-- Introduction to Pattern Recognition
- Visualization of Information
Inherently their names are beautiful, right? :-)
See you! Max
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Terminator 2000 and seven.
As I mentioned in the About:Me section on the right, I'm currently into finishing my bachelor degree of computer science at the Vienna University of Technology. To state it precisely I'm doing some special field of computer science which is called 'media informatics' or 'computer science in media'. I don't know if there is the one and only correct translation from the German word which is 'Medieninformatik'.
For this reason, two of my colleagues and I are working on a 'little' piece of Java that should be able to compare live pictures from a regular webcam-stream to pictures that are stored in a database and finally to correctly identify them to be equal or at least very similar. As it sounds pretty interesting it really is! But it's indeed a little tricky too. Currently we are planning to finish our work by the end of the next week. Who knows if we can make it? Only Java does... And seriously no, I will not tell you how long we are already working on it!! ;-)
Wish us good luck! Max
For this reason, two of my colleagues and I are working on a 'little' piece of Java that should be able to compare live pictures from a regular webcam-stream to pictures that are stored in a database and finally to correctly identify them to be equal or at least very similar. As it sounds pretty interesting it really is! But it's indeed a little tricky too. Currently we are planning to finish our work by the end of the next week. Who knows if we can make it? Only Java does... And seriously no, I will not tell you how long we are already working on it!! ;-)
Wish us good luck! Max
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