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Smart Eyewear – Port of Amsterdam

Team

José Carlos Quintas Jr juniorquintas@gmail.com
Marvin Straathof marvinstraathof@gmail.com

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Description

Wrapping things up

gradr-logoIt’s time for the final blogpost of the smart eyewear team. We started this project with the following research question: How can smart eyewear technology be integrated into the quality assessment system of the Port of Amsterdam in the area of maintenance of public spaces? We’ve developed a system called Gradr to effectively optimize the maintenance processes within the port.

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More headlines…

We’re still recovering from the first wave of press coverage, but a second wave is near; we made it to the frontpage of the HvA!

We made the headlines!


We’re honoured to be featured! You can read the articles here:

Everything is under control…

Greetings! We’ve been busy with developing the Glass app for the administrators of the public space. During the testing and developing of this app we noticed a few possible difficulties with navigating within the app. Some of these flaws have been solved by making the user interface more natural and simple, but some of the other flaws can’t be fixed that easily. One of these flaws is the input possibilities Glass offers. Some of these feel unnatural and take some time getting used to. They are also error-sensitive, a single tap quickly becomes a double tap. A lot of people don’t seem to notice that the whole side acts as a trackpad either. To circumvent these issues we feel that we need a new way of user input that is more natural. Read more

Prototyping

MenuHello everyone! Last few weeks we’ve been working on something completely different than computer vision. At the end of previous sprint we decided that it would be wise to start working on different solutions, since it would simply be too hard. A demand from the Port of Amsterdam is that we implement an idea that uses Google Glass. That is why we started this sprint implementing one of our previous ideas; redesigning the workflow of the checklist so that it is usable with Google Glass. Read more

From computer vision to Sprint 3

It’s been a while! Don’t worry, we’re still alive. Let’s catch up! Last Sprint, Sprint 2, was all about computer vision. We chose to continue with recognizing traffic signs. Our idea was to automatically detect broken, dirty, crooked, or bent traffic signs. We would mount a camera to the car of the manager of the public space so that the analyst could pay attention to the road. For the detection of traffic signs in the video feed from the camera we needed a computer vision application. Read more

Sprint 1: Our Insights and Ideas

headerLast Thursday (March 5th) we finished our first ‘real’ sprint. It was the day we had the sprint review with our assigner, the Port of Amsterdam. During that review, we presented our findings and ideas, just like we’ve done the day before during the peer pitch. This blog post will explain our insights using graphics created by Sanjay (Click the images for a bigger version). Read more

Computer Vision

Hi there! Do you still remember our previous blogpost? We elaborated a bit upon the current processes of assessing different situations. We also stated that we have some ideas on how to integrate smart eyewear into those processes. We found out that a big part of artificial intelligence (AI) can help with this proces. In some articles on similar projects, we saw a potential application for AI. Normally, AI refers to ‘making computers think’. A lot of work on AI really focuses on making the computer think like a human. But how can this contribute to our project? Read more

Quality assesment

The coming four months it is our quest to integrate smart eyewear into the quality assessment of the maintenance of the public space in the Port of Amsterdam. The maintenance is done by third parties hired by the Port of Amsterdam. These third parties are responsible for tasks such as: cleaning roads, cleaning traffic signs, emptying trash cans, repairing benches, removing graffiti and posters, and maintaining the lawns. But how can the Port of Amsterdam assure that the port looks its best? Read more

MediaLAB Adventure

Hi all, this blog will keep you posted with our adventures! Meet our team: José, Marvin, and Sanjay. We are three MediaLAB students. We will be doing a project for the Port of Amsterdam the coming 5 months. Our assignment is to integrate smart eyewear technology into the quality assessment system of the Port of Amsterdam in the area of maintenance of public spaces. But more about that later on! Read more