My family and I were on our annual beach vacation, during covid-19, and I had a few ideas on how to help out the condo/hotel industry.
Notes from exploring computer vision for the hospitality industry during COVID-19 — elevator usage analytics, amenity occupancy monitoring, and what signals matter when density matters. Practical CV applied to operational questions.
Closed captions have been around for awhile its time to try to innovate on them.
Experiment replacing traditional closed captions with AR-style speech bubbles anchored to the speaker. Built on React, AWS, and a computer-vision speaker-detection step — part of exploring more engaging and more accessible video captions.
As someone who loves exploring new technologies, I was thrilled to try out Apple's ARKit at the 2017 WWDC conference. I drove to the nearest Apple store to purchase the latest iPhone, just so I could use the latest ARKit technology.
WWDC 2017 recap: experimenting with ARKit on the day it shipped by placing 3D Cartoon Network characters into augmented reality on iPhone. A snapshot of what felt possible the instant ARKit became public to developers.
"Get off my lawn moment" setup a camera to capture how fast folks are speeding in my neighborhood. 25mph limit. pic.twitter.com/rtQZs6QFbG
— Scott Havird (@scotthavird) January 6, 2016
I live in a neighborhood with a 25mph speed limit. I've noticed that many people drive much faster than the speed limit. I wanted to capture how fast people were driving in my neighborhood. I set up a camera to capture the speed of cars driving by. I used a Hikvision CCTV to capture the video and a Python script with OpenCV to detect the speed of the cars.
Built a neighborhood speed-detection rig using a Hikvision CCTV camera, Python, and OpenCV. Pulled frames over RTSP, detected vehicles, and computed speed against the 25mph limit — early computer-vision work that foreshadowed later ContentAI pipelines.
Welcome! Thank you for stopping by. This is my first post for my first blog.
I want to use this blog to highlight quick ideas and prototypes with potential use cases.
Welcome post. This blog captures quick experiments and working prototypes across computer vision, AI, and engineering — written from the perspective of an engineer who ships small things fast and writes about what actually worked.