I know it sounds trivial to most people, I know I should “get a life.” But…

I have lost the lanyard that I wear around my neck to tether me to my SenseCam.

I am having difficulty adapting to a day without it hanging from my neck like some sort of technological military dog tag.

It feels “weird” knowing that the conversation I am having, or whatever physical act I am engaged in, is not actually being recorded to my digital memory store.

After two years of wearing this thing and having it with me every waking hour I am now at a bit of an emotional loss as to what to do with myself.

It feels like being separated from my laptop!

I don’t know how people can live like that.

Yes, I know, I need to get out more.

Someday I may actually take your advice and leave my girlfriend’s Mother’s basement and go out, see some of the world, interact with people, get a life, as it were.

Just as soon as I find my SenseCam lanyard so that I can record the event…

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I have been tinkering around with the software I use for image feature extraction in my large collection of SenseCam images.

Using OpenCV, a SURF algorithm and Python I have been able to create a small command-line application that can accurately determine places I have visited before based on the captured images.

The Python script is also capable of tagging images such as “Venice Office" or “Home/Bedroom” or “Local Coffee Shop” very accurately. I am quite pleased with the results.

By automatically tagging images I can group them in to similar sets of images, and quickly locate pictures of an event or location. Next I want to start working on automatically recognising and tagging people.

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