{"id":315,"date":"2007-08-21T11:06:56","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T03:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/21\/clever-co-pilot-drinks-the-koolaid\/"},"modified":"2007-08-21T11:06:56","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T03:06:56","slug":"clever-co-pilot-drinks-the-koolaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/21\/clever-co-pilot-drinks-the-koolaid\/","title":{"rendered":"Clever Co-Pilot drinks the koolaid"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Co-Pilot is one of two finalists for Western Australian Inventor of the Year 2007<\/a> in the Early Stage category. I’m very proud. He’s very low key.<\/p>\n

His team has already won something, although I’ve never quite seen a prize schedule<\/a> so complicated. He’ll know the result on 19th October. This ad was on p38 of our Saturday paper (the West Australian).<\/p>\n

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The project is Virtual Observer<\/a>. There are cameras on buses in central Perth that take footage out their front windows. Things happen in Perth that the cameras see. Co-Pilot writes programs to index what is on the videos – so people don’t have to watch hours of footage to find notable events. He has set it up so that you can specify a place and time and see what any of the buses saw at that time – for example what the traffic was like at a particular intersection between 3 and 4 pm from the point of view of several different buses. Or maybe trace the path of a lost child.<\/p>\n

His viddler clip of the Perth Webjam winner, ICCARUS was the viddler featured video<\/a> last Friday and got over 1000 hits . I think he’s realised that there are some times when it is useful to have a site that lets people know more about you.<\/p>\n

He’s finally drinking the blog koolaid and has spent the last couple of days registering a domain, crafting a blog and populating it with posts. Finally he decided on A Different Tune<\/a>: Stewart Greenhill on life, music and the art of science.<\/em><\/p>\n

There’s a link to videos of six presentations at Perth Webjam<\/a> and he’ll be adding Perth Barcamp<\/a> ones soon. If you are interested in audio cassette surgery<\/a>, it’s the place. There’s a nifty post about how to use autostitch to automatically insert still images into a panorama<\/a>. There’s also a description of how to use autostitch to automatically drop video into the right place in a previously recorded video clip<\/a> – watch the video clip where he turns the little bouncing kid sideways but the program still puts it in the right spot in the video. They are work things, but feature a very cute little boy in a karate outfit and another one dancing on furniture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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