day/night
cherry blossoms in tokyo
spring 2009
geylan at night
spring 2009
friends, not food
modeling/rendering, Maya
spring 2008
birds
acrylic on canvas
summer 2007
smile detector
Image Processing Class final project
spring 2008
Smile Detector takes live video feed from a webcam and uses symmetry detection (as described by a 1990 computer vision paper by Reisfeld, Wolfsont, and Yeshurunt titled "Detection of Interest Points Using Symmetry") to detect facial features including the mouth. The mouth shape is labeled as a smile or frown based on concavity. This project won a class award for best presentation. The paper describing the implementation can be found here.
tattletail
Tangible User Interfaces Class final project
fall 2007
The second group project for the Tangible User Interfaces class involved adding small anthropomorphic cues to household objects, to allow the object to convey emotional information in a minimal manner. For our working prototype, we added a tail to an alarm clock that wagged happily when the alarm was turned off, but thumped in annoyance at being snoozed repeatedly. The tail can be limp or taut and can curl in 4 directions. Its movement is controlled by servos and a micro-controller, which translates commands sent by serial/USB from a host computer. I was responsible for writing the programs on the host computer to control the tail animations for each alarm scenario. The paper can be found here.
teammates:
Michael Bernstein (MIT CSAIL)
Adam Kumpf (MIT MediaLab)
Kosuke Bando (Harvard GSD)