10 projects

a personal challenge to do a project each day for 10 days


While on coronavirus lockdown, it can be a challenge to work on projects with unknown future outcomes. By forcing myself to complete a project each day, it helpfully limits the scope of work, and forces me to make progress rather than perfection. These are a collection of those projects.

ocean super resolution
In this project, I was curious whether I could use an image super resolution neural network to improve the resolution of remote sensing data in the ocean.

openstreetmap
A trail is being created in an open space near my home. Because the area was private land for so long and the park is not yet open, maps of the area are sparsely populated. In this project, I mapped the trail and ponds and added the data to OpenStreetMap.


mapping tree loss from space
In 2013, my family's home burned down in the Black Forest Fire. It also burned part of the open space I mapped in Project #2. In this project, I created a map of where the fire burned based on remotely sensed forest cover data.


running form analysis
Finding and using a neural network that can do 3-dimensional pose tracking to quantify elements of running form.

birds of a feather
Clustering photos of birds by their visual similarity to one another using neural network feature extraction and dimensionality reduction.


why we're blind to the color blue
Here, we'll dive into optics, the structure of the human eye, and why truly seeing sharp blues is all in your head.

pinhole photography
This is a simple project with tangible results. I took a photo with a pinhole camera, and developed the photo paper to create an image.


visualizing density
Using a computational photography technique called background oriented Schlieren to visualize density differences.

microcolor
Most microscope images are in grayscale. I trained a neural network to take black and white microscope imagery as an input, and produce colorized versions.


instagrammetry
Using photogrammetry to ubild a 3D model of a scene using images scraped from instagram.