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Roboface-an Interactive Face Animation Tracker

I want you to imagine a character that tracks your mouse and expresses emotions based on how you interact with it. Emotions range from happy, surprised, bored, or neutral. The...

August 17, 2025

Technology

Trying Out Difix by NVIDIA for Image Restoration

In this post I discuss Difix, NVIDIA’s single-step image diffusion model available on Hugging Face. It is designed for enhancing and restoring images, especially those with artifacts or blurriness. First...

July 23, 2025

Technology

Agentic Object Detection and Document Extraction with Landing.ai

This week, I dive into agentic object detection and document extraction using tools from Landing.ai, one of Andrew Ng’s innovative startups! Inspired by Andrew Ng’s recent post on X about...

July 22, 2025

Technology

What's Hot Right Now? Find Out with Google Trends!

Ever wonder what people are searching for online—like the latest gadgets, hot topics, or even local events? Google Trends is a free, easy-to-use tool that shows you what’s trending on...

July 19, 2025

Technology

Personal posts

From Pencil to Stardom with Mr Beast: Ifure Usen’s Breakthrough Moment on X

Meet Ifure Usen, a talented Nigerian pencil artist whose incredible journey to fame began with a single tweet. On September 3, 2025, Ifure replied to a MrBeast post on X...

September 5, 2025

CMMRS in Saarbrucken, Germany for pre-doctoral researchers

In late July, 2025 I attended the Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-doctoral Research School in Computer Science (CMMRS) in Saarbrucken, Germany. We had group panel discussions that were helpful because...

August 24, 2025

Trip to Uganda- Kampala & silver springs

After three years in Rwanda, I finally seized the chance to visit Uganda, Rwanda’s vibrant northern neighbor, tagging along with a friend to a Toastmasters conference in Kampala, the Ugandan...

May 29, 2025

Finding a song from my phone -an ordinary google task

This was my method for finding a song from a video I watched on my phone. Here I used the split screen feature to open 2 apps at the same...

May 24, 2025