A couple of days ago, I went to Leuven to visit EyeTronics NV. In 2008 I attended a guest lecture from CEO Dirk Callaerts, who explained us what EyeTronics was all about. At the time being they focused mainly on 3D facial scanning. They were also exploring other applications that could benefit from the scanning [...]
Archive for category Master thesis
Get your face scanned
Jan 23
Expert Interview
Dec 22
After shifting the focus of my thesis, I also shifted my main reference. In the beginning I was particularly inspired by the research of Frederic Cox. He focused his research on Augmented Reality. I really like the concept of AR, and it was my intention to focus my research on that subject as well. But [...]
One of my two promoters, Rudi, arranged a visit to ESATfor Peter and me, a research department of the KULeuven. They work around Image Processing and Visualisation, and Augmented Reality is one of the subjects they are looking into. We got a tour from Paul Konijn who explained what was going on at the moment, [...]
Ubiquitous shops
Nov 13
Looks like I found a different focus for my thesis research. In my previous post I referred to a blogger writing about nanotechnology, and I wanted to do something with this subject. Actually working with nanotechnology is way too expensive and way to difficult. How way? Way way! But after some lectures about the New [...]
Indeed. I mean, it’s still a terrific technology with huge potential. I even believe it to be the medium of the future. A while ago I read an interesting theory of human nano-enhancement, which would include projection on the iris. This would be augmenting reality in an extreme way. There are less extreme applications though. [...]
Thesis proposition
Oct 12
A new year has started. I got my Bachelor’s Degree, and decided to tie an extra year to my trajectory. This means I can get a Master’s Degree by summer 2010. Before I can call myself a Master of Arts I have to follow some courses, and for the biggest part, write a thesis. I [...]
Yep, my hairs needed another session from my hairdresser. While he was doing his magic with scissors and razor, suddenly the bright light struck me. I was explaining what we are doing at Bivolino. And while saying rendering technique, the buzzword augmented reality crossed my mind. And both subjects connected immediately. Suddenly fresh air found [...]
So, after a time of quite intense studying today, I thought it was time to take a break. And, taking a break while your sitting behind your laptop means checking Facebook and Twitter. What, you thought I was going to leave my chair? And due to the socialness of other people, I ended up with [...]