We are in the process of making all of our data freely available for research use. As well, we have also worked on tools for analyzing eye-movements during such dynamic scenes.

CARPE, or more bombastically known as Computational Algorithmic Representation and Processing of Eye-movements, allows one to begin visualizing eye-movement data together with the video data it was tracked with in a number of ways. It currently supports low-level feature visualizations, clustering of eye-movements, model selection, heat-map visualizations, blending, contour visualizations, peek-through visualizations, movie output, binocular data input, and more. The videos shown above on our Vimeo page were all created using this tool. Head over to Google code to check out the source code or download the binary. We are still in the process of stream-lining this process by creating manuals for new users and uploading more of the eye-tracking and video data so … Continue reading...

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It was an interesting group of people that strangely somehow all had much in common. I had the fortune of presenting my research as it relates to DIEM in the place of Tim J. Smith.

The schedule:

Close-Up 2: Schedule for Wednesday 17^th June 2009

10am coffee and tech checks (G.11, William Robertson Building)

10.30 Welcome, Annette Davison (Music, ACE and Director, Cfpma), Martine Beugnet (LLC, Convener of Film Studies)

Who is who, where is what? People and resources for which the Cfpma will provide a point of convergence.

11am Individual Presentations (MAX 10 mins each):

Andrew Lawrence (African Studies, SSPS) — Difficult satire under austerity: the films of Sissako and Amoussou

Martine Beugnet (Film, LLC) — “The Wounded Screen”

Richard Williams (Architecture, ACE) — “The Modernist City on Film”

Stephen Cairns (Architecture, ACE) — “Cultures of Legibility: Emergent Urban Landscapes in Southeast Asia”

Simon Frith and Annette Davison (Music, ACE) — “The Role of Cinemas in the History of Live Music”

Mary Fogarty (Music, ACE) — “The … Continue reading...

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16 June 2009, Edinburgh

Allison McInnes, Member of the Scottish Parliament, comes to greet protesters after they have collected over 600 signatures of people in support of the protest against the Iranian election results.… Continue reading...

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My students for the Digital Media Studio Project here at the University of Edinburgh have asked me to present a small workshop on using some aspects of the Processing.org environment. I’ve worked up something and thought I could share it online as well. I’ve setup a google code repository with the necessary files. The code simply highlights what you could find throughout the Processing.org discourse and the OpenCV example files though is more thoroughly commented and organized.

A few notes, I really dislike the Processing IDE. Maybe it’s just because I’ve used IDE’s like VS, Netbeans, Eclipse, XCode etc… and I haven’t really played with Processing enough to have a well founded basis in the functions available. I believe going through a few extra steps to setup an IDE like Eclipse makes the task of programming much easier though at the cost of a bulky editor that may not be so easy to setup at first…

Eclipse is an (Integrated Development Environment) IDE for many coding languages, one of which is Java. Some advantages:

• code completion – automatically see possible choices for all members belonging to a class definition, such as functions and their arguments.

• javadocs – javadoc is

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