Schlagwort: cameras

  • Take a photo of yourself as an unreliable cartoon

    Take a photo of yourself as an unreliable cartoon

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    Take a selfie, wait for the image to appear, and behold a cartoon version of yourself. Or, at least, behold a cartoon version of whatever the camera thought it saw. Welcome to Draw This by maker Dan Macnish.

    Dan has made code, instructions, and wiring diagrams available to help you bring this beguiling weirdery into your own life.

    raspberry pi cartoon polaroid camera

    Neural networks, object recognition, and cartoons

    One of the fun things about this re-imagined polaroid is that you never get to see the original image. You point, and shoot – and out pops a cartoon; the camera’s best interpretation of what it saw. The result is always a surprise. A food selfie of a healthy salad might turn into an enormous hot dog, or a photo with friends might be photobombed by a goat.

    OK. Let’s take this one step at a time.

    Pi + camera + button + LED

    Draw This uses a Raspberry Pi 3 and a Camera Module, with a button and a useful status LED connected to the GPIO pins via a breadboard. You press the button, and the camera captures a still image while the LED comes on and stays lit for a couple of seconds while the Pi processes the image. So far, so standard Pi camera build.

    Interpreting and re-interpreting the camera image

    Dan uses Python to process the captured photograph, employing a pre-trained machine learning model from Google to recognise multiple objects in the image. Now he brings the strangeness. The Pi matches the things it sees in the photo with doodles from Google’s huge open-source Quick, Draw! dataset, and generates a new image that represents the objects in the original image as doodles. Then a thermal printer connected to the Pi’s GPIO pins prints the results.

    A 28 x 14 grid of kangaroo doodles in dark grey on a white background

    Kangaroos from the Quick, Draw! dataset (I got distracted)

    Potential for peculiar

    Reading about this build leaves me yearning to see its oddest interpretation of a scene, so if you make this and you find it really does turn you or your friend into a goat, please do share that with us.

    And as you can see from my kangaroo digression above, there is a ton of potential for bizarro makes that use the Quick, Draw! dataset, object recognition models, or both; it’s not just the marsupials that are inexplicably compelling (I dare you to go and look and see how long it takes you to get back to whatever you were in the middle of). If you’re planning to make this, or something inspired by this, check out Dan’s cartoonify GitHub repo. And tell us all about it in the comments.

    Website: LINK

  • This 1000FPS Slow Motion Video was Shot with Sony’s RX100 IV Compact Camera

    This 1000FPS Slow Motion Video was Shot with Sony’s RX100 IV Compact Camera

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    Sony’s RX100 IV might be a compact camera, but it certainly doesn’t lack features, especially in the slow motion video department. According to PetaPixel, „Photographer David Candlish got a chance to play with a pre-release RX100 IV yesterday, and he shot the 40x slow motion clip seen above that shows what the RX100 IV is capable of. The camera was handheld and a couple of tabletop LEDs provided lighting. When shooting with the 1000fps feature, 2 seconds of real time becomes a whopping 80 seconds of slow-motion video.“ Product page.

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    Inside the compact RX100 IV is the world’s first 1-inch stacked back-side illuminated Exmor RS CMOS sensor – a remarkable advance in image shooting possibilities. Use it to reveal the wonders of up to 40x super slow motion, super-high-speed 1/32000 sec. Anti-Distortion Shutter, and handy 4K movies.

  • SONY Action Cam LIVE Demo – Game City 2014 – BLOGDOTTV

    SONY Action Cam LIVE Demo – Game City 2014 – BLOGDOTTV

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