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Blog


A selection of curated resources, published by our colleagues.

9 September 2023

Our work: Art X Informatics

Vera Dimovska speaks of our work at the intersection of creativity and informatics.
16 May 2023

A new method to align cross-sections in LiDAR point cloud data (and how we’re changing a 100-year old process)

We designed, built and assessed novel mathematical models to automated the detection and categorisation of safety defects in rail tunnels.
16 June 2022

How to explain AI to non-technical users – a GOV.UK example

Here is how clear UI/UX and no-code prototyping allowed us to effectively validate the functionality of a fairly sophisticated AI system for sensitivity review of government records.
14 June 2022

Putting accessibility first early in the alpha stage

While design practitioners follow a ‘mobile first’ paradigm, we as a community should change our mindset to ‘accessible-first’ because it’s the right thing to do.
25 May 2022

Improving road lane detections with data augmentations

During a 4-day hackaton we guided several PhD students to define a problem and explore a few approaches for solving it.
15 March 2022
9 March 2022

Calculating objects size from point cloud data – ARKit on iOS

A short tutorial how to extract and process RGB+Depth data from iOS devices equipped with infrared sensors, most notably the Pro lines of iPads and iPhones.
10 February 2022

Future of generative AI in Fashion

We built the AIs and web-app powering pioneering fashion technology company AWAYTOMARS which uses generative AI models to co-create novel fashion and textile designs. Here, Alfredo Orobio, founder of the brand, talks about the future of AI in fashion.
3 September 2021

Concept to prototype: Open data with smart cost-effective air quality sensors

Making pollution data open with affordable smart particulate matter air quality monitors
7 April 2021

Quick 3D design & prototyping to support ML Ops

Often training data is not available immediately at project kick off. Here is how we cobbled together some parts and 3D printed others to build a waterproof casing to collect initial training data and avoid delays on a recent project.
21 April 2020

Detecting health risks in a non-invasive way, a Viapontica AI and Cisco Inc collaboration

4 June 2019

Smart Roads: A Proof of Concept

This is one of the very first machine learning projects that we worked on as a company.