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UCL startup raises $2 million to revolutionise content creation with AI camera

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UCL News @uclnews.bsky.social · 21d

UCL alumnus Vishal Kumar has secured $2 million in seed funding for his startup Camera Intelligence, which is developing an AI-powered camera platform designed to simplify professional content creation. @thebartlettucl.bsky.social @uclenterprise.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/se...

A UCL alumnus has secured $2 million in seed funding for his startup Camera Intelligence, which is developing an AI-powered camera platform designed to simplify professional content creation.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Duncan Wilson @djdunc.bsky.social · 28d

"Switching off the theatres when not in use reduces energy consumption by a factor greater than the fractional reduction of time in use" New paper in Royal Society Interface from work last year supported by UCLPartners. cc @yrkalaji.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Towards NetZero for hospital operating theatres | Journal of The Royal Society Interface

Hospital operating theatre suites are a particularly resource- and energy-intensive component of the health sector. Reducing their carbon footprint presents a significant challenge due to the necessit...

royalsocietypublishing.org

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Duncan Wilson @djdunc.bsky.social · Sep 5

I think it was this one www.dbreunig.com/2025/02/24/b...

Building an Easier to Use FFmpeg With LLMs

Using the llm CLI to execute FFmpeg incantations using natural language.

www.dbreunig.com

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Duncan Wilson @djdunc.bsky.social · Aug 3

Fixing clamps and Greengages

A mix of making, lido benches and events this week. The greengages on the tree in the garden have started to fall, so I have started the annual ritual of making jam with the ones I can capture before ...

Duncan Wilson @djdunc.bsky.social · Jul 15

#ucldigifest today looking forward to exploring the digital twin, digital tech for education and the communities developing at UCL - @jamespjh.bsky.social getting us started

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UCL CASA @casaucl.bsky.social · Jul 8

Sense, Deploy, Communicate: Connected Environments MSc Show
18 July-03 August
1st Floor Galleries, UCL East Marshgate
Opening night: 17 July, 18:00-20:00

Join us later this month to enjoy Connected Environments MSc students' graduating projects at their final show.

www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...

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Duncan Wilson @djdunc.bsky.social · Jun 26

Day 3 CUPUM “like day 3 at Glastonbury” says @adamdennett.bsky.social so great to sit down to listen to the @casaucl.bsky.social legend Mike

Duncan Wilson @djdunc.bsky.social · Jun 25

Day 2 at CUPUM up next @fryrsquared.bsky.social and starting with a lovely game! Cc @casaucl.bsky.social

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Duncan Wilson @djdunc.bsky.social · Jun 24

And here we go with CUPUM @casaucl.bsky.social great intro from conf chair @adamdennett.bsky.social and liking the hat tip to @digitalurban.bsky.social metaverse of posters.

Image from Cities in the Metaverse book cover by Andy Hudson-Smith This time last summer I was focusing on researching and writing a chapter on AI for the Cities in the Metaverse book with Andy and Va...

Duncan Wilson @djdunc.bsky.social · Jun 7

www.iot.io/blog/2025/06... New book from the @casaucl.bsky.social connected environments folk will be hitting shelves soon.

Cities in the Metaverse

CUPUM 2025 | The 19th International Conference on Computational Urban Planning & Urban Management

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UCL CASA @casaucl.bsky.social · May 28

The window to register is closing! Lock down your attendance at CUPUM this year before this Saturday's deadline.

UCL CASA @casaucl.bsky.social · May 15

Registration for CUPUM 2025: Cloud Cities will close on 31 May. If you have signed up to present papers at this year's conference, but haven't yet registered to attend, don't miss the deadline!

Register here: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...

A global conference bringing together the international research community at the intersection of digital technologies, data science, urban planning and city shaping.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social · Apr 29

Great blog by @djdunc.bsky.social describing drone surveying of flowers for pollinators near oilseed rape fields last week, in association with our pan-European WildPosh project www.iot.io/blog/2025/04...

Drone in a field

Spent a couple of days this week flying the new DJI Matrice 4E in Hampshire. The task was to capture orthomosaic data for the WildPosh Grand Challenge project and involved a fair bit of prep with lots...

Continuing learning and preperation for capturing orthomosaic photos of fields in Wiltshire this week as a contribution into a UCL Grand Challenge project. We took delivery of the DJI Matrice 4E so th...

Duncan Wilson @djdunc.bsky.social · Apr 20

Some notes on getting started with the DJI Matrice 4E www.iot.io/blog/2025/04...

DJI Matrice 4E

Term 2 came to a close with a week of final group project presentations, voting for the CE 2025 mug design, a last lecture on Dead IoT and a visit to the Hampstead Observatory to see the partial solar...

Duncan Wilson @djdunc.bsky.social · Mar 30

Term 2 complete and a lovely partial solar eclipse:
www.iot.io/blog/2025/03...

S4T2 Completed

One of those weeks where you don’t think you have got much done, but in reality many seeds have been planted. I seemed to have a week of meetings - starting with RIBA Festival of the Future, ending wi...

Duncan Wilson @djdunc.bsky.social · Mar 30

In the 80's Design Technology was my favourite A-Level - now watching my daughter enjoy it as much as I did - I would have loved to design a pavilion #D&T #designtech

Duncan Wilson @djdunc.bsky.social · Mar 30

Hello Robin. Only the second time this box in the garden has been used.

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · Mar 23

It may feel as though we live in dark times, but here in the UK there are LOADS of science festivals celebrating ideas, sparking curiosity & sharing the latest research (for both adults & kids). Someone told me recently they didn’t know where to look, so I made a list. Here goes… [deep breath]:
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Duncan Wilson @djdunc.bsky.social · Mar 22

www.iot.io/blog/2025/03... notes from the week

Transdisciplinary

Nudged forward the work on exploring orthomosaics with the DJI mini 4. Mainly exploring the workflow with Agisoft Metashape Pro (we have a floating licence in the lab) and checking to see how well the...

Duncan Wilson @djdunc.bsky.social · Mar 15

This weeks side project - orthomosiac experiment www.iot.io/blog/2025/03...

Orthomosaic

Turns out there is a name for the thing I have been doing more and more over the past year. I have increasingly been turning to Gemini rather than Google when I am trying to work out how to write a li...

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UCL CASA @casaucl.bsky.social · Mar 14

Congratulations to Prof Michael Batty, whose book The Computable City has won a prize at the recent #PROSEAwards (Professional and Scholarly Excellence). Prof Batty's book was named by @americanpublish.bsky.social as a joint finalist in the category for Architecture and Urban Planning.

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UCL CASA @casaucl.bsky.social · Mar 12

The Bartlett, UCL has been ranked the #1 place in the world to study architecture and the built environment for the third year in a row in The QS World Rankings by Subject 2025. We also remain #1 in the UK for the 11th consecutive year.

www.topuniversities.com/university-s...

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Duncan Wilson @djdunc.bsky.social · Mar 8

have been doing some more vibe coding this week www.iot.io/blog/2025/03...

Vibe Coding

Duncan Wilson @djdunc.bsky.social · Mar 8

Glorious swim in the sunshine this lunch time at Park Road Lido in Haringey. Pity it is closed at prime time given the sunk costs of keeping this running.