Talk Proposal: Making sense out of pixels: Simple video analysis in JS 🔎

[kimadeline]

• Draft Title: Making sense out of pixels: Simple video analysis in JS 🔎
• Length: 20-30 minutes presentation
• Links: I have the code in Python here, currently porting it to JS (will add the link once it's available on GitHub)
• Which dates, particularly Tue/Wed/Thu during the 2nd/3rd week of a month, are you likely available? Tuesdays/Wednesdays/Thursdays in April, except for April 15-April 20

Who are we? Curious JS developers!
What do we want? To learn more about video analysis!
How do we want to do it? By performing simple video analysis of professional Overwatch games!

Speaker Bio

• Name: Kim-Adeline Miguel
• Mini-bio: Software engineer at Microsoft working on the Python Extension for VS Code 🐍 Succulent grower 🌵 Emoji user 👩‍💻
• Would you like help with your presentation? A practice run wouldn't hurt, and feedback after the presentation would be really helpful 🙂
• Social media link(s):
  • 🐦 https://twitter.com/kimadeline_m
  • https://github.com/kimadeline
  • 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimadelinemiguel/
• Do you agree to the VanJS Code of Conduct? Yes

[ShMcK]

Hi Kim, Interesting proposal!

I'm curious, what is the code portion? How does the talk relate to JS?

[kimadeline]

Hi @ShMcK 👋 Thank you for reading it!

Right now the code only exists in Python (repo is here, will add the link up there), however I am porting it to JS to use these packages and APIs:

• ffmpeg
• a database (probably PouchDB)
• Azure Cognitive Services (for the text recognition)
• plotly

The talk would be a fun (although "fun" is very subjective in this case) way to show how we can cobble all these pieces together to perform simple video analysis 🧩.

I can reword the summary to emphasize this, what do you think? Or should I refocus the proposal on one step of the process (in that case it would either be Azure Cognitive Services or plotly)?

[ShMcK]

Very cool!

Do you think you'd be available for a talk in March? Dates are flexible

[kimadeline]

I'll be back in Vancouver on March 6th, any day after that would work 📆

[ShMcK]

Would March 11th 6-8:30pm work?

[kimadeline]

I know I said "any day after March 6th", but that was before work asked me to be out of Vancouver between March 9 and March 13, I'm sorry about that 🙈

[ShMcK]

We had a February cancellation, would Feb 13th work?

[kimadeline]

Things happened, I would prefer April 😬

[kimadeline]

Hello hello, I updated my availability for April: Tuesdays/Wednesdays/Thursdays, except for April 15-April 20 📆

[ShMcK]

Thanks, we have a potential offer for April 21st. Unconfirmed.

[kimadeline]

Hello hello,

I know this has been in limbo for a little while, would it be possible to withdraw this proposal for now?

Sorry for the trouble 😞

[ShMcK]

Of course, it has been a while. April was a world away.