September 2022

Image processing
CartoonGAN

One or two years ago, I tried CartoonGAN to convert photos into anime like pictures. “GAN” is an abbreviation for “Generative Adversarial Network”, a deep learning technology that learns features from prepared images and generates new pseudo images. When I saw my recent photos of black dragonflies, I wondered what would happen to them, then […]

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Foveon sensor
Saho river

2022-09-16 Around the Saho river, black dragonflies can be seen everywhere. As autumn is approaching, the dragonflies are flying in groups probably for spawning. The bright green body contrasts beautifully with their deep black feathers. I found a gray heron about 3 meters ahead. map

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Foveon sensor
Soni Plateau

2022-09-12 I visited the Soni plateau located on the border of Nara and Mie prefectures. It is the place covered by wild pampas grass around the wetland called Okame-ike. It was the first visit for me. I went by a car loading a foldable bicycle, but there is no path to get around by a […]

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Image processing
Simple image cropping code (code included)

2022-09-09 When I started building a website, the first thing I had to do was to crop photo images many times. From a 6000 x 4000 pixel photo, I had to cut out a long rectangle image in 1900 x 600 pixels for example. I tried to do this with MS Windows default paint software […]

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Other
Started my own website

2022-09-05 I started my own website. If I have a chance to visit impressive places, I want to record what I saw with some photos. Also, if I found useful methods to process images, I will publish it. thank you for visiting.

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