2006W

MAT 256 Course

2.16.2006

Terrence Handscomb(terrence at umail dot ucsb dot edu)

Joriz De Guzman (lawmajor1 at aol dot com)

The Problem with Noise:


Table of Contents

The following links provide quick access to the various sections on this site:


Project Description

In this project we attempted to make a visual document, which contrasted cultural noise with signal noise as its driving metaphor. The video tended to illustrate the notion of compression noise in the first part, but implemented the notion of cultural noise in the second part. The over-arching body imagery and action tended to overpower the technical noise considerations.

The result was partially successful, but it generated much discussion.

Project Methods

This project was developed in Processing and Apple Final Cut Pro. We pre-processed video to look for changes in between frames. Where there was change, that information would be left out. Superpixels of 8x8 were layered on top of the changes video regions. A final result video was compiled and created within Final Cut Pro. Links to related sites are presented below:

Screenshots

Some representative screen captures are provided below:

Project Source

The video file for this project can be downloaded from here.


Team Participants

Terrence Handscomb

Website

Terrence Handscomb. I am a MFA student specialising in critical theory and video. I have worked extensively with media based art. I have exhibited extensively in Europe, Australia and New Zealand.


Joriz De Guzman

Website

Joriz De Guzman. I am a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. My research interests lie in the field of Computer Vision with Bioinformatics/Bio-Image Informatics as a sub-interest.