At the media computing group I was asked if it would be possible to detect 3D objects in the video stream of the Kinect camera. There is previous work by Chavdar Papazov and Darius Burschk on detecting 3D objects in noisy and occulded scenes, which uses a RANSAC based algorithm to detect objects in depth [...]
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Talk: User Experience Design in Games
Back in 2009 I have attended the first Devmania conference. The Devmania is the successor of the famous Dusmania conference of hobby and indie game developers, and there were a lot of interesting people and cool talks. I decided to get over myself and give a talk on my passion: User Experience Design. So I [...]
Pencilcase on a birthday party
Interesting alternative to rock concert photos. Yesterday my favorite local band from Aachen was playing on a pretty big private birthday party. Energy saving garden lamps instead of an array of 500W concert lamps, and a relaxed acoustified set instead of rock action. But still Pencilcase was awesome and I even got a few nice [...]
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Talk: Progressive Photon Mapping
A few weeks ago I had to give a talk at the seminar of the computer graphics and multimedia institute of Prof. Leif Kobbelt. He chose the topic Progressive Photon Mapping for me and it turned out to be a really interesting technique for global illumination. I used my usual presentation template as I really [...]
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Interactive Particle Tracing for Ventricular Assist Devices
This was one of my first big projects during my work at the Virtual Reality Group RWTH-Aachen. The DeBakey ventricular assist device (VAD) is basically a blood pump which is implanted on a human heart and the big challenge for engineers is to provide a pump layout that does as little damage to the [...]
Create your own Marketing WordPress Network
In the last days I have been experimenting with WordPress Network, to get them running for my marketing blogs. A WordPress Network allows you to host many blogs in one WordPress installation. So it is perfect when you have a lot of blogs to manage. Good thing is, you only need to install and configure [...]
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Instant Public Link for Dropbox
I love dropbox! And I found it to be extremely useful to quickly share a file with someone I am chatting with. But still the process could be even easier. So I created a small, but useful tool. Drop a file to InstantLink and you will have a URL to that file in your clipboard. [...]
New Psycho-Cybernetics
I started to listen to the audio book version of the New Psycho-Cybernetics. The description and reviews looked very promising, describing Psycho-Cybernetics as the grandfather of all self development techniques. Hearing the first 1 1/2 CDs (about 2 hours) I found myself more annoyed than inspired. Until now I did not hear not much more [...]
Dan Pink – Drive
“The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us” Is actually not surprising to me at all. I have heard the first 1.5 hours of the audio book and find myself annoyed by the repetition of the same argument over and over again. Extrinsic motivation (mostly.. paying someone to do something) can have negative effect on motivation, [...]
C# Style Properties in C++?
I was in experimenting mood again. I got annoyed by writing the following code over and over again: class Test { private: int myVar; public: int GetMyVar() { return myVar; } } Sometimes additionally to that a Setter method which processes or checks the values. So how to make this more compact? With macro hacking! [...]
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