Author Archives: Faisal

The TV Station – Short Movie

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Faisal

This year a new event, Arts Olympix, took place at Jacobs University. Unlike the sports olympix event which includes all the colleges, along with alumni and graduate students; this event was only for the four residential colleges and their associated … Continue reading →

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Image Stitcher

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Faisal

Recently, I created a ROS node which would listen to an image topic and start stitching them to create a mosaic. This was done using multiple methods. Two methods were OpenCV implemented (this and this) whereas a third method was manually … Continue reading →

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Animated gif and Happy New Year… :)

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Faisal

I am done with 75 % of my Master in Science degree… almost. I still need to finish my thesis proposal but I think I am doing good on that front and that is why I decided to take a … Continue reading →

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Robot Walk Around

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Faisal

For a Robotics class assignment, I had to program a robot with obstacle avoidance behavior, such that it ends up walking around an unknown environment, without hitting anything. The behavior was tested on Kurt robot in USARsim environment. The obstacle avoidance was … Continue reading →

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Color regions in black and white Images

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Faisal

Recently I saw a few photographs in a magazine where majority of the picture is black and white, except for a certain region which is in color. Few other examples of such images are used to show only one color, … Continue reading →

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Re:Art Contest Entry – Aluminium Coke Table Chair

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Faisal

The first week of December was Environmental awareness week at Jacobs University Bremen. One of the contests taking place during the week was Re:art. The idea was to recycle, reuse, rethink, and create an art piece using rubbish/trash/garbage. One of … Continue reading →

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Stop Motion

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Faisal

During the first week of September, as I was starting my second year of Masters, I was without a computer. Restless as I am, I just could not wait and not do anything for a week while my computer was … Continue reading →

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Iceland 2011

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Faisal

So I went to Iceland in November. The timing of the trip might seem unusual, but it looked perfect in so many ways. Firstly, we got really cheap flights, and we would have gotten even cheaper bus had we been … Continue reading →

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Dominant Plane Detection

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Faisal

The following ROS package can be used with Kinect data to find the dominant plane. This is done using RANSAC. Two versions of the software are programmed. The parameters regarding RANSAC can be changed from the launch file. The selected … Continue reading →

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Naran, Pakistan 2011

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Faisal

More pics from Naran trip. More pics from Lahore trip. More travelling pics.

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