Tracking and VJing [100€]

[Το κείμενο διατίθεται μόνο στα Αγγλικά] How to control your Vjing application with simple Computer Vision tools

Make an interactive vj set, move freely away from the computer or make your videos reactive to the playground are some of greater desires of every VJ. In this workshop we'll introduce basic elements of Computer Vision's tecnic that let you get this goal.

Computer Vision is an informatics tecnic for analyze the movement (but not just it) in a video or webcam stream.

During the 4 days long workshop we will deal with different analysis's tecnics and how to connect it to our favorite VJ application.At the end we will realize an interactive video performance created from all participants. In order to do that an interactive table interface hardware will be available to participants

The workshop is about 4 sessions, every one about 3 hours.

PROGRAM

may 27

• Computer Vision Introduction

• First experience with Motion Tracking

• First experience with Face Tracking

may 28

• Protocols and communication

• Reactvision system: examples and application

• Make a Reactable-like system using the table interface

may 29

• Reactable Second Session

• Connecting to our favorite Vj application

may 30

• How to organize an interactive gig

• Communication system set up

• Preparing the performance

During the workshop we will use free and multiplatform software, easy to connect all VJ programs. A personal notebook is needed.