5 July 2024
Published contribution to OGC Testbed-19 Engineering Report demonstrating how WebVMT can identify wrong-way traffic & estimate vehicle speed for forensic evidence using roadside camera footage for road network use cases.
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21 June 2024
Presented WebVMT roadside litter monitoring proposal using dash cam footage from a vehicle fleet to Testbed-20 kick-off meeting.
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5 June 2024
Launched Testbed Video demo page with summary videos from the OGC Testbed research programme which demonstrate how footage can be geotagged with WebVMT to analyse real-world problems.
Testbed Videos
28 May 2024
Published Testbed-19 demonstration video on OGC's YouTube channel describing WebVMT analysis of roadside footage with GeoPose for road network use cases, including tracking, synchronization & wrong-way traffic.
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26 April 2024
Collaborated in geotagged video capture using dash cam vehicle fleet to monitor roadside litter at Ordnance Survey, near Southampton.
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5 April 2024
Launched new community page to help users of dashcams, drones & body cameras to get started with WebVMT, including practical guidance & links to online tools.
Get Started
27 March 2024
Presented results of traffic video analysis to GeoPose meeting at OGC Delft, including encapsulation of GeoPose within WebVMT for video synchronisation, data interpolation & web integration.
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7 February 2024
Launched community pages to guide users and developers seeking knowledge and resources, including free tool to convert GPX tracks to WebVMT to help new users get started.
Community
16 January 2024
Presented results of WebVMT traffic video analysis to OGC Testbed-19 Demo Day, including OGC GeoPose integration, multi-sensor synchronisation and BBC Crash Detectives CCTV vehicle speed analysis.
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30 October 2023
Presented in GeoPose mentor stream at OGC Code Sprint in London, including vehicle speed analysis using CCTV excerpt from BBC Crash Detectives (series 4, episode 1) augmented with WebVMT.
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11 October 2023
Demonstrated traffic monitoring synchronisation of multiple data sources with smartphone video using WebVMT to OGC Testbed-19 Geospatial In Space meeting.
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19 September 2023
Spatial Data on the Web Working Group published WebVMT W3C Group Note as a deliverable item in their Charter.
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9 August 2023
New version of WebVMT mobile app published to comply with forthcoming W3C Group Note.
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28 July 2023
Updated WebVMT web player to comply with forthcoming W3C Group Note & added VMT format update tool to support existing users.
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26 June 2023
Published contribution to OGC Testbed-18 Moving Features & Sensor Integration Engineering Report to prototype video geo-alignment for handheld web devices.
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10 May 2023
Presented WebVMT multi-camera synchronisation proposal at OGC Testbed-19 Geospatial In Space kick-off meeting.
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25-26 April 2023
Collaborated in geotagged video capture of moving objects with multiple cameras at Ordnance Survey near Southampton.
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18 January 2023
Presented geoposed video analysis at OGC Testbed-18 Demo Day and published free 3D Compass app for Android devices.
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15 December 2022
Presented Testbed-18 Moving Features & Sensor Integration Engineering Report results for geoposed video analysis at OGC Moving Features SWG meeting.
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26 October 2022
Field-tested 3D compass snapshot feature to record location and camera pose using an Android device.
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18 August 2022
Demonstrated native Android app version of 3D compass at OGC Testbed-18 Moving Features & Sensor Integration meeting.
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4 August 2022
Demonstrated updated 3D compass webpage with floating pointer at OGC Testbed-18 Moving Features & Sensor Integration meeting.
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7 July 2022
Demonstrated initial 3D compass webpage showcasing W3C Geo-alignment to OGC Testbed-18 Moving Features & Sensor Integration meeting.
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29 May 2022
Field-tested W3C Geo-alignment prototype webpage to record video camera direction at Boscombe Chine near Bournemouth.
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26 May 2022
Presented WebVMT camera direction proposal at OGC Testbed-18 Moving Features & Sensor Integration kick-off meeting.
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9 March 2022
Published Testbed-17 Moving Features demonstration video on OGC's YouTube channel describing WebVMT analysis of video & LiDAR data from an autonomous vehicle to track moving objects in a web browser.
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3 February 2022
Presented OGC Testbed-17 Moving Features autonomous vehicle analysis to W3C Spatial Data on the Web Working Group to track moving objects from a moving object using video & LiDAR data synchronised with WebVMT in a web browser.
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21 January 2022
Published contribution to OGC Testbed-17 Moving Features Engineering Report using WebVMT analysis tools to track nearby moving objects from autonomous vehicle video & LiDAR data in a web browser.
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7 December 2021
Demonstrated autonomous vehicle analysis to track a cyclist on a cycle path in a web browser using WebVMT to synchronise video & LiDAR from a moving vehicle at OGC Moving Features SWG meeting.
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21 October 2021
Demonstrated moving object tracking in a web browser using WebVMT to synchronise multiple sensors on an autonomous vehicle at OGC Testbed-17 Moving Features meeting.
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30 September 2021
Demonstrated WebVMT previsualisation of LiDAR detections captured from an autonomous vehicle at OGC Testbed-17 Moving Features meeting.
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5 August 2021
Demonstrated autonomous vehicle data previsualisation showing camera location synced with video using WebVMT at OGC Testbed-17 Moving Features meeting.
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24 June 2021
Presented WebVMT progress update to W3C's Spatial Data on the Web Interest Group meeting.
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18 May 2021
First WebVMT-compliant mobile app published - a geotagged video recorder based on the prototype Android app.
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20 April 2021
Changed HTML specification in the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) to include unbounded cues for WebVMT support.
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7 April 2021
Presented proposed WebVMT contribution to OGC Testbed-17 Moving Features From Digital Motion Imagery kick-off meeting.
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24 March 2021
Presented GeoPose With Video in the time series discussions with Moving Features & SensorThings at GeoPose Standards Working Group in the OGC TC virtual meetings.
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5 March 2021
Published guest blog post on Making Geotagged Video More Accessible for Geo4Good day in techUK's Geospatial Future week.
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18 January 2021
Uploaded Testbed-16 Full Motion Video demonstration to OGC's YouTube channel showing MPEG-2 with MISB location metadata exported to WebVMT & displayed in a web browser.
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13 January 2021
Published contribution to OGC Testbed-16 Full Motion Video Engineering Report exploring how MISB location metadata can be exported from MPEG-2 video using WebVMT and displayed in a web browser.
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29 December 2020
Previewed prototype time callibration tool which synchronises two WebVMT videos in a web browser.
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26 October 2020
Chaired breakout discussion on video metadata for moving objects & sensors on the web at W3C TPAC.
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3 September 2020
Demonstrated WebVMT exported from MPEG-2 with MISB metadata to OGC Testbed-16 FMV using recon footage from Esri.
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27 August 2020
Demonstrated WebVMT exported from MPEG-2 with MISB metadata to OGC Testbed-16 FMV using drone footage.
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18 August 2020
Created GitHub repository for WebVMT Community Group to track issues, support community & develop code.
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23 July 2020
Presented WebVMT progress in OGC Testbed-16 FMV to the W3C's Spatial Data on the Web Interest Group meeting.
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28 May 2020
Presented WebVMT roadmap to the W3C's Spatial Data on the Web Interest Group meeting.
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24 October 2019
Published mobile demo filmed at OGC Leuven in Belgium which uses WebVMT cues to present nearby points of interest and correct tracking errors.
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22 August 2019
Presented lunchtime talk on WebVMT at Ordnance Survey Headquarters in Southampton, with exclusive new demos.
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1 July 2019
Presented WebVMT at Standards Committee on Geographic Information (BSI IST/36) meeting at BSI in Chiswick.
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26 June 2019
Preview of new WebVMT demo filmed on location at the OGC Technical Committee meeting in Leuven, Belgium.
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25 June 2019
Chaired breakout discussion on video search with location in Spatial Data on the Web meeting at OGC Leuven.
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24-26 June 2019
Presented WebVMT progress at OGC meeting in Leuven to Emergency & Disaster Management/Law Enforcement & Public Safety, Unmanned Systems, Moving Features and Defence & Intelligence.
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16 May 2019
Contributed to W3C IG Note on Media Timed Events, now published by Media & Entertainment Interest Group.
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25 April 2019
Preview of upcoming WebVMT-compliant mobile app, developed from our Android prototype by innovation partners Away Team.
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29 March 2019
Created W3C Community Group for WebVMT to support online community with a public forum that is open to all & free to join.
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20 March 2019
Established GitHub repository in Web Incubator Community Group (WICG) to commence work on DataCue development, proposed at TPAC in Lyon.
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12 December 2018
Completed a document review of the W3C Editor's Draft for WebVMT with the Spatial Data on the Web Interest Group.
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9 November 2018
Presented WebVMT to the Blue Light Drones conference for police & emergency services at techUK in London.
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24 October 2018
Proposed and chaired a breakout session to discuss video metadata support for geolocation at the W3C TPAC Plenary in Lyon.
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23 October 2018
Reported progress to the Spatial Data on the Web Interest Group at W3C TPAC in Lyon, and participated in Media & Entertainment Interest Group.
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22 October 2018
Demonstrated WebVMT with Mapbox GL and OS Open Zoomstack at the Developer Meetup at W3C TPAC in Lyon.
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16 October 2018
Proposed W3C Community Group for WebVMT to support uptake and progress towards standardisation.
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1 October 2018
Integrated OS Open Zoomstack & Mapbox GL with the WebVMT prototype to demonstrate 3d vector map support.
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10 September 2018
Presented WebVMT to the Domain Working Groups for Defence & Intelligence and Emergency & Disaster Management/Law Enforcement & Public Safety at the OGC meeting in Stuttgart.
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5 August 2018
Added a mobile demo to the website for displaying user-generated WebVMT video with a map in a web browser.
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16 July 2018
Established the WebVMT.org website to promote the format, present technical demos and engage communities to help progress towards standardisation.
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6 June 2018
Presented progress to the Spatial Data on the Web Interest Group, who voted to promote WebVMT to incubation in the W3C Strategy Funnel at the OGC meeting in Fort Collins.
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24 May 2018
Completed the file loader technical demonstration webpage for drag and drop display of user-generated files, e.g. from a mobile app.
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4 May 2018
Built a video capture prototype mobile app in support of Geovation's CrisisHack 2018 to record crowdsourced video with accurate geolocation for the WebVMT Crisis Response use case.
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20 April 2018
Integrated embedded YouTube videos with the WebVMT web player technical demonstration to enable geolocation movies to be shared on the web.
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19 March 2018
Presented WebVMT to the Unmanned Systems Domain Working Group at the Open Geospatial Consortium Technical Committee in Orleans.
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7 March 2018
Published the first draft of the W3C Editor's Draft explanatory specification for WebVMT.
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19 February 2018
Presented WebVMT concept to W3C's Spatial Data on the Web Interest Group in Amersfoort, and subsequently joined the group as an Invited Expert.
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23 January 2018
Announced the first technical demonstration of the Web Video Map Tracks (WebVMT) web player with concept mock-up pictures.
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