Category Archives: Thesis

A System for Non-linear Exploration of Visual Information Abstract: The amount of personal data in the form of social media, email, music, video, and personal photos continues to grow at a rapid pace. While some advances have been made in … Continue reading →

Face Recognition, XML, initial clusters… Closing in on a working backend system We, being myself and Akira Shibata, accomplished a lot over the break. The current face recognition system based on Phillip Wagner’s Eigen Face implementation is working and provides … Continue reading →

Histograms and Frequency …ever closer to face clustering, but not just yet. Using the birthday data set a plot of face frequency over 5 years. Not especially meaningful as it is, but getting ready for face comparison and clustering. Playing … Continue reading →

Extracting EXIF data from images for clusteringI was able to use the Python image library (PIL) to extract time and GPS location data from a test image set. The test set is comprised of roughly 500 images from various devices … Continue reading →

The Algorithmic Display of Ranked Information I’m a believer in the strategy: When faced with obstacles, switch to something else… More often than not a seemingly unrelated perspective offers an unseen inroad. I had been struggling to understand how an unsupervised or … Continue reading →

Using OpenCV to detect and extract faces My thesis will be utilizing different tools to sort and filter images. Among them, face detection and face recognition. OpenCV has a robust set of  optimizations for face and facial feature detection based on the … Continue reading →