DT's Kahn Presentation 4/21/16
--D. Thiebaut (talk) 13:37, 17 April 2016 (EDT)
Contents
Videos
Zittrain on Wikipedia
- Jonathan Zittrain on Wikipedia (3 minutes)
Reconstructing the World in Six Days
Researchers at the University of North Carolina have processed 100 million images from Yahoo and used the geolocation information of the camera, along with the image, to recreate a 3D model of various buildings. Once the 3D object is reconstructed, computer software can be used to "move" around the object. The video shows such reconstructions. 8 min 30 sec.
- Reconstructing the World* in Six Days *(As Captured by the Yahoo 100M Image Dataset) (CVPR 2015),
- Authors: Jared Heinly, Johannes L. Schönberger, Enrique Dunn, Jan-Michael Frahm
- Presented at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference (CVPR), 2015
- Web site: http://cs.unc.edu/~jheinly/reconstructing_the_world.html
- Data Set: The 100 million image dataset used in this paper was obtained from Yahoo: One Hundred Million Creative Commons Flickr Images For Research, Yahoo Flickr Creative Commons 100M
Mike Tyka, The Art of Neural Networks
(With thanks to MJ Wraga for discovering this video)
From the YouTube page: "Mike Tyka, who is both artist and computer scientist, talks about the power of neural networks. These algorithms are capable to transform computers into artists that can generate breathtaking paintings, music and even poetry."
The tool used by Mike Tyka in the video is Deep Dream, created and released to the public (the source code is available) by Google.
The video lasts 16 minutes.
Non Required Reading
If you are so inclined and have time, you may find this article of interest:
- Hepp, M., K. Siorpaes, D. Bachlechner, Harvesting Wiki Consensus: Using Wikipedia Entries as Vocabulary for Knowledge Management, IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 11, No. 5, Sept-Oct 2007, pp. 54-65.
