Projects

I'm making a piece of software using Computer Vision where learned body gestures are translated into a corresponding commands with the aim of generating sound. In other words this software makes it possible to create and manipulating sound without physical interaction with a computer. You can find out more at the project site.

At CWI I made a native rewrite of the MonetDB Python API.

Google reader is fantastic, but I prefer not be dependent on online services provided by very huge companies. Somehow I feel harvested. I thought it would be a nice project to start to write my own RSS reader, run it as a service and put it open source on the Internet. I got some friends of mine together, and we started coding in Django. We are not finished yet, and I don't know if we will ever be, but please feel free to check it out.

I've rewritten the sensor scripts for the SURFids sensor. The SURFids project is a honeypot based intrusion detection system. The sensor is actually a set of python scripts, that can transform an existing linux system into a honeypot. The sensor will set up a VPN to a central server that will monitor the network traffic on the sensors network. This may detect attacks on the network.

PERFsonar is a framework for monitoring network traffic. This software was designed to be deployed on a european scale, and is currently used/deployed for monitoring the CERN grid, used for transferring the data generated by the LHC. I've been working on two netflow related modules for perfSONAR. The first was a subscription service, which can be used for requesting live netflow data from somewhere in a monitored network. The second module was an historical service, which can be used to query stored netflow data.

A computer vision tool for monitoring a real-time real-life Go game in tournament conditions with a webcam. This was an assignment for the second year students of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Amsterdam. The code is quite a mess, but it is working ;)

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