Jun 17, 2018Audio Steganography : The art of hiding secrets within earshot (part 2 of 2)In the previous installment of this piece on Audio Steganography, I described the fundamentals of Audio Steganography along with some applications and related concepts. If you haven’t yet read the earlier post, I recommend reading it before going further with this post. Audio Steganography : The art of hiding secrets within earshot (part 1 of 2) Decrypting the magic of Audio Steganography!medium.comMusic9 min readMusic9 min read
Jun 13, 2018Audio Steganography : The art of hiding secrets within earshot (part 1 of 2)What is Steganography? The word “Steganography”, like many other cool terms, has a Greek origin. It is derived from two Greek words steganos, meaning “covered,” and graphein, meaning “to write”, and refers to the art of enabling covert communication that uses clever methods to hide information in plain sight.Music8 min readMusic8 min read
Feb 6, 2018Getting Started with SpaceNetThe commercially captured satellite imagery that is available in SpaceNet dataset provides wide array of opportunities for advancements in computer vision and machine learning. This article attempts to create understanding and awareness for SpaceNet dataset for those who are unfamiliar with it. What is SpaceNet ? SpaceNet is a publicly…Spacenet8 min readSpacenet8 min read
Feb 3, 2018A primer on GeoJSON standard and visualization toolsWhat is GeoJSON ? Well, the name GeoJSON (Geo+JSON) itself is a giveaway. The GeoJSON is a format for encoding geographical data structures, using the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). Simply put, GeoJSON gives you an easy format for representing simple geographical features, along with their non-spatial attributes. As described in…Data Visualization9 min readData Visualization9 min read
Published inFrontend Weekly·Jan 31, 2018How to make a Chrome browser extension from scratch | Understanding Chrome extension anatomyAs a student at the University of Chicago, I regularly use the university’s Canvas portal to access class materials. However, this portal, along with a few uChicago portals require the user to take some unnecessary navigational steps to download files. …JavaScript7 min readJavaScript7 min read
Jan 25, 2018UC Grabber! A simple tool to batch download files from Canvas/ilykeiDear Fellow UoC Student, Hope you’re doing well! I just want to share a software that I wrote in last few days, to automate some routine and mundane tasks. I think it might be useful for all of us who use Canvas and/or ilykei.com portal. The Problem The problem that…Chrome Extension4 min readChrome Extension4 min read
Jan 20, 2018Training a neural network using Mobilenets in TensorFlow for image classification on AndroidFirst, a few definitions for the uninitiated. TensorFlow is an open-source library for numeric computation using dataflow graphs. It was developed by Google brain team as a proprietary machine learning system based on deep learning neural networks. …Machine Learning6 min readMachine Learning6 min read
Dec 20, 2017Plotting Population Weighted Mean Centroids on a Country MapA few days ago, a reddit user posted a beautiful visualization for Mean Centers of U.S. population by state on /r/MapPorn subreddit. Pretty neat, right ? This map conveys the point across and also maintains an appeasing simplicity. …Data Science7 min readData Science7 min read
