Here is code for a Lafvin Arduino robot. The code gets the servo motor to sweep back and forth 180 degrees and uses the ultrasonic sensor to detect objects.
Security Film or Image Enhancing is Possible
How many times have we seen in a film somebody request security footage to be enhanced? Lots. We know it’s rubbish but in this post I present a possible scenario where this might actually be feasible.
How Deep Learning Works – The Very Basics
In this post I thought I’d try to explain how deep learining works. I want this to be a “Deep Learning for Dummies” kind of article.
Loss of Class Dynamics Amid Distance Learning
In this article I talk about how remote learning is becoming a thing and how class dynamics is going to suffer as a result.
Apple’s and Samsung’s Face Unlocking Technologies
Have you ever wondered how the technology that unlocks your phone with your face works? This is a fascinating question and, interestingly, Samsung and Apple provide very different technologies for this feature on their devices. This post will examine the differences between the two technologies and will also show you how either of the two […]
Review of The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
I detest receiving books as gifts in the workplace. Such books are usually of the soulless sort, the sort that are written around some lifeless corporate motto that is supposed to inspire a new employee to work overtime when needed. So, when I walked into my first day at work at Carnegie Mellon University (Australia […]
How Facial Recognition Works – Part 2 (FaceNet)
Here I describe a specific facial recognition algorithm – one that changed things forever: FaceNet by Google.
How Facial Recognition Works – Part 1
(Update: part 2 of this post can be found here) Facial recognition. What a hot topic this is today! Hardly a week goes by without it hitting the news in one way or another, and usually for the wrong reasons – i.e. privacy and its growing ubiquity. But have you ever wondered how this technology […]
Image Steganography – Simple Examples
In my last post I introduced the field of image steganography. In this post I present two very simple ways secret messages can be hidden in digital images.
Image Steganography – An Introduction
In this post (part 1 of 2) I would like to introduce the topic of image steganography, which is the practice of concealing secret messages in digital images.