Tried a few times before and gave up on blogging each time! Even micro blogging didn't work well for me. After all the failure attempts, this time trying something different to…

Ray Tracing and more into Computer Graphics

Its been a long time since I wrote anything here. Been busy with many projects at work and hobby. Recently been working on a Ray Tracing Rendering Engine for our iOS / Android App…

Do you hate anything other than traditional CPP? Even after using a lot of new and powerful languages (C#, Java, Python, and whatever), when it comes to game development, do you…

Google AI Challenge Ants 2011 - Post Mortem

As a 3 week hard work and sleepless nights, I took the 127th rank in Google AI Challenge Ants 2011 and 1st in my country India. I thought the experience was worth sharing in this…

Hacking iPhone 4 into a Digital Microscope

I was always eager to zoom in to things to see if I can find microbes. This time I took a step forward and opened up one of my old DVD drives to remove the lens inside. I…

Kinect + Box2D

Past few days I've been trying to arrange a marriage between my Kinect Algorithms and Box2d and it finally came up very well. As they both didn't really love each other I had to…

Complex Gesture Recognition using Kinect

Like I said earlier, I was working on some complex gesture recognition system that can recognize numbers. The whole system was built with Embedded systems in mind, so its just c++…

Clean Background removal with blob detection

Yes, am a little ahead in the background removal. I have now removed the background noise that escaped from my first layer background removal algorithm. I've added a second layer…

Blob Detection in Kinect

After background removal, I've now completed the blob detection algorithm. After reading a bunch of blob detection papers, I ended up with my own (modified version of…

Background Removal for Kinect Depth data

I am wondering if am atleast 10% towards completion of the skeletonization code. However, here is the best background detection and removal, I could do. This code is not based on…