Chronicling the Escapades of Brian C. Becker

Welcome! I am a grad student in the Robotics Institute at CMU. Other than the microsurgical robots I work on as part of my PhD, I do have interests in computer science, hobbies in gardening, and books to read that I have an occasional moment to spend some free time on.

I love a good challenge, so over the past years I've tinkered with a lot of computer science topics and started a lot of different projects. One day I hope to document them here so they may be useful to others. Some of topics that most interest me are compilers, computer vision, plugin architectures, and artificial intelligence/machine learning.

Facebook Face Recognition

I have recently posted some information and resources on my Face Recognition project page. Included so far is a C# app that will download pictures and tags from a Facebook user's account (and all their friends). Very useful for creating multi-gigabyte databases of pictures and faces that have been manually tagged. Also included is a face extractor to match detected faces and Facebook tags and save them for face recognition.

Intertube Haunts

I'm all over the Internet, so see my personal/class videos on YouTube, check out my 365days picture project on flickr, get to know me via Facebook, or visit me at CMU.

Feel free to email me at X@BrianCBecker.com where X = "Brian" (sorry for the awkwardness, but I hate spam as much as the next guy).