Research Topics
After a decade of helping people learn about computers, I’m now helping computers learn about people. Specifically I have been building a synthetic dataset to train neural networks on human detection, tracking, and segmentation tasks.
Here's a Medium article I wrote on the subject.
By combining a tool for generating human models and some clothing and hair models I made, I have been able to produce a dataset which was used to train a neural network and achieve equivalent results to the same network trained on natural data.
My work even made it into a Wired article. And I have a Tumblr page of synthetic humanoids for the world to enjoy.