Some notes from studying James Tompkin’s excellent Computer Vision course at Brown University:
James Tompkin
Great research from James Tompkin— essentially bridging the gap between creativity, imagination, and computer vision:
Things he has worked on I find fascinating:
Touchable Augmented Reality On Your Phone
Part of Brown’s Human-Computer Interaction research.
DensePose
Dense Pose — absolutely fascinating.
My thoughts:
This can be a good tool to teach photography, video, and human bodily positions/poses. Perhaps can also assist for composition when you need to pose a subject (wedding, corporate, portrait)?
Also fascinating, perhaps can be used after-the-fact to analyze photography compositions of humans (I want to try to apply this to street photography composition):
Motion capture
The Hobbit
Planet of the apes
Vision for graphics
Another course by James, this one on graphics >
Machine Learning
Brave new world of photography:
- Use Photoshop to Make Visual Experiments on Your Photos
- Brave New World of Photography and AI
- Use AI, Neural Networks, and Deep Learning to Judge Your Photography Compositions
- How Can AI (Artificial Intelligence) Help You Analyze Your Photos?
- What Can AI (and AlphaGo) Teach us About Being Human?
- Composition and Machine Learning: Bounding Boxes for Photographers
- How Photographers Can See Like Machines
- Why AI (Artificial Intelligence) is Good for Photographers!
