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Wrapping things up

It’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 […]

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: Computable Amsterdam Smart City Port of Amsterdam [EN] / Port of Amsterdam [NL] Groenervaren Watertalent

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 […]

Prototyping

Hello 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 […]

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 […]

Sprint 1: Our Insights and Ideas

Last 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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]