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IP: Continuous Personal Imaging device
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 10:24:01 -0400
Subject: Continuous Personal Imaging device From: Steve Mann <mann () eecg toronto edu> To: clarkson () media mit edu (Brian Clarkson)And if anyone else knows of work that is similar to this please let meknow.So far I've gotten most of my inspiration from the conceptual art communityMy experience wearing camera systems at the Media Lab, especially when I went fulltime wearing continuously as a two year experiment from 1994 to 1996 was considered conceptual art by some. (First wearable camera at Media Lab, and first example of someone putting their personal life as video on the WWW). This was met with opposition by the co-author on your paper who called in Mitch Kapor, founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation to try to resolve a standoff that had resulted. In a strange twist of events, Kapor felt that what I was doing was worthy of being done, and ultimately I prevailed in not being prevented from wearing it. I must give credit to Kapor for saving this work from being kept outside the Media Lab (I had been doing this work at home in previous years, and had planned to continue doing it that way). It is interesting that your paper makes no reference to this early research in lifelong videocapture, especially since your co-author was very aware (and even opposed to) the work. Many of these early systems were of a panoramic nature, capturing full 360 degree views in both video and radar. See for example, Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 86, No. 11, describing a large body of work in the area of Intelligent Signal Processing systems for lifelong videocapture, not just for recording but also for Intelligent Signal Processing. One of my combined backpack-based and front-facing 360 degree camera systems called "shootingbackpack" contained five cameras and radar system, and was also exhibited at the List Visual Arts Center (LVAC) in the Media Lab building October 1997, and can be seen at http://wearcam.org/lvac/index.htm
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