All posts in “My Life”

Workflow

Posted 15 years ago · 3 Comments

E-Mail & Contacts

All my e-mail accounts (personal, work & school) forward to my main Gmail account, and I use Gmail’s web interface since no application support Gmail’s labels and filters very effectively, as far as I know. Gmail also makes it possible to set the sender of composed e-mails to external e-mail addresses, meaning that I can send e-mails from my student account from within Gmail’s web interface.

I strive to have no more than 20 e-mails in my inbox. To do this I use stars for important e-mails in the following fashion:

Red Star: Needs attention today or tomorrow.
Orange Star: Needs attention within a week.
Green Star: Needs attention within 1-6 months.
Yellow Star: Needs no attention until reply is received.

Furthermore I use filters and labels extensively, also based on colors:

Reddish Labels: School-related.
Greenish Labels: Work-related.
Blueish Labels: Receipts, invoices, etc.

My contacts are synched from Google to my iPhone, I am however thinking of switching this to iCloud when it becomes available.

To-dos and Project Management

For personal to-dos I use Flow. The interface is amazing and so are the features. The service syncs automatically with their iPhone application and it has a Mac application making it possible to always add to-dos with keyboard shortcuts. My use of it is quite simple, I have different lists depending on the category of the to-do, and I use the “flagged” feature to flag important to-dos such as pressing homework.

For project work I have mostly used Pivotal Tracker. Although it’s designed for software projects, I have also used it for other project-related tasks such as writing reports.

Calendar

I use Google Calendar for all my calendar needs. Within it I have several external calendars added such as upcoming tv shows, Facebook events, and school schedule.

Note-taking

For notes I use Simplenote, another service which automatically syncs up with an iPhone application. I used Evernote for a while but found it to be too cluttered for my needs.

Bookmarking

I use several services for bookmarking. I use Google Reader for my news reading, and within it I star news I want to read later. For websites I want to look at once or twice again I use Instapaper, and for sites I want saved permanently I use delicious.

Right Vision: Utilizing Optical Flow to Prevent Right Turn Accidents

Posted 17 years ago · Comments Off

Oh boy, this is going to get geeky. Today, me and my group finished our 3rd semester project after three months of very hard work. The semester theme was Human Senses – Digital Perception, and was mainly focused on using computer vision. We ended up creating a cyclist protection system, which can detect a cyclist in a right turn situation and warn the driver. The system is implemented in C++ using Intel’s computer vision library, OpenCV, for various image processing functions. Basically, the system, called Right Vision, estimates what is called optical flow (the apparent motion of objects, surfaces and edges) and performs segmentation based on objects’ and the background’s vanishing points to detect a cyclist from a dynamic video feed mounted on a moving car.

Estimating right-to-left movements.

This semester at Medialogy was the first in which I really felt that I learned something useful. I have always wanted to learn C++ and learning how to implement various image processing techniques such as thresholding, edge detection and compound operations at the same time was very effective.

The entire project ended with a 97 page report, which can be downloaded here.

Tumblrized

Posted 17 years ago · Tagged: blog, tumblr · 2 Comments

Hello non-existing blog reader, I’ve started blogging more on my tumblr instead of here, so if you and your non-existing friends want to read about stuff I like head over to my tumblr on mattsson.tumblr.com and follow me there. Peace.

Focusing and Freelancing

Posted 17 years ago · 2 Comments

I’m going to a focus group at Danish video game company IO Interactive, this wednesday. My friend Simon works there, as a game tester, and he forwarded a mail about it. It’s gonna take 2-3 hours, and I think it’ll be a lot of fun. I’m also about to organize focus groups at school, as part of our semester project, so it’ll be nice to see how the pros do it.

I’ve also been freelancing for SDI Media for a while. They make language dubbing, translations, subtitling, etc. for clients like Sony, Fox, Warner Bros., and Paramount. I’m translating subtitles, and that’s really all I can say, they didn’t make me sign a 5 page confidentiality agreement for nothing.

Oh yeah, my Macbook is making weird creaking sounds when I move my hand around, on the left side, so I probably have to have it replaced. Crap.

I’m in Copenhagen!

Posted 18 years ago · Tagged: copenhagen institute of technology, ropa · 11 Comments

Today I moved into an apartment in Hvidovre, with two of my friends. The apartment is 75 sqm., and the rent is 9.500,- including power and water. It’s right next to Føtex, Aldi and the train station (10 minutes from the main train station), so it’s pretty much awesome. I have three weeks of chilling, until school starts at AAU in Ballerup. I’m going to study Medialogy. Until then I’ll probably see a shitload of movies and enjoy our entertainment center, in our living room, which has been named, rightfully so, “Room of Pure Awesomeness”:

What you’re looking at is a 32″ HD flatscreen TV, digital 5.1 surround sound, a PlayStation 2, Wii, Xbox 360, Nintendo 64 and Sega Mega Drive.