A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
From the TV show 30 Rock: What if you didn’t need a remote control, because the remote control is your own voice? Along with a good laugh this also raises an upcoming solution voice control technology creators will have to think of: how can we assure that you — and only you — can control …
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This is rather crazy, especially if you know how it’s done: The opening titles for WDS11 were designed to test the graphical capabilities of modern web browsers. Using HTML, CSS3, WebGL and Canvas, I created a 2-screen production that required 2 laptops that were carefully synced to 2 projectors. Yes, that’s right: 2 separate browsers, …
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In this paper, we train a computer to select still frames from video that work well as candid portraits. Because of the subjective nature of this task, we conduct a human subjects study to collect ratings of video frames across multiple videos. Then, we compute a number of features and train a model to predict …
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HTML5 video has come a long way but still lacks consistent codec support and the ability to go fullscreen, until now of course. Webkit nightly, Chrome dev and Firefox nightly have added the ability to put HTML5 videos, and other elements, into fullscreen mode using The FullScreen API Interesting write-up on how to use the …