San Flashcisco

Recorded Attendees

Description:

Cost

Free. inc Pizza & Beer

Schedule

6:15 : Doors Open

6:30 : Welcome & Announcements

6:45 : Show-Tell-and-Win

7:15 : Pizza Break

8:00 : Eric Socolofsky

8:45 : Prizes

9:00 : End / Pub

Presentation: Augmented reality, Motion detection and Face tracking with Eric Socolofsky

With the advent and wide adoption of AS3, and increasing ubiquity of webcams, computer vision in a browser is finally starting to become a reality. We’ll take a look at some of the new developments in computer vision with Flash, including a brief overview of motion detection and face tracking, and an in-depth look at marker tracking with FLARToolkit and FLARManager.

Show-Tell-and-Win

This month our raffle gets competitive with a show-and-tell of your work. All members will have the opportunity to show a project they have worked or contributed on to the group. The group will then vote of their favorite project and the winner will be announced at the end of the meet.

All projects/presentations must be online or stored on external storage (such as a thumb drive, CD or DVD). Switching laptops for every showing is not an option as it’s too time consuming. The presentation laptop will be a current generation MacBook. The alloted time per presentations shall vary depending on demand and content.

Bio – Eric Socolofsky

An architectural background and a new media foreground work together to shape Eric Socolofsky’s body of work. Since receiving his Master’s degree at NYU-ITP, Eric has experimented with a variety of work, including web, game, and user interface design and programming, interactive and generative screen-based art, and interactive spatial installations. Following a fellowship in Eyebeam’s Moving Image department, Eric designed and built the comic generation tool Quickcomic.com, developed educational games with New York City-based GameLab, and taught at New York University and Pratt University. He is now a new media exhibit developer at San Francisco’s Exploratorium.

Address:

SFSU Downtown Campus,
835 Market Street,
6th Floor, Room: 627
San Francisco,
CA 94103-1901

The entrance to the downtown SFSU building is located between the entrances of Walgreens and the Westfield shopping centre on Market St between 4th & 5th. Once in the building, take the elevator to the 6th floor and follow the signs for room 627.

Recommended Public Parking – The 5th and Mission/Yerba Buena Garage at the corner of Fifth and Mission.

Time:

Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 6:30 PM

Event Discussion:

Only logged in members can leave comments, please register if you would like to comment