Infantry Fighting Vehicle, low poly 50k vertices generated from an image

both models available on sketchfab for comparison:

GENERAL INTEREST IN AVIATION AND MAPS

2013 SUPER TYPHOON HAIYAN

My first contact with drones was during the emergency response to typhoon Haiyan in 2013, Philippines. It was a record breaking super typhoon, of largest and fastest to ever make a landfall as of 2013.

Personally, it was a formative event for several reasons:

1. witnessed helicopter surveys by a US Marines, Philippines Air Force and Swiss private company and how it was a Godsend for local government and military who had no resources at a disposal. Helicopters were in high demand, both of Philippines Air force and US marines from USS Wasp, no commercialdrones or UAV were spotted that time
   There was no electricty for over 3 months in affected areas and only recharge was via the petrol generators.

1. first time used a drone Parrot drone with 720px camera around MAy 2014, brought by one of the volunteers, Phd student from Czech republic Jiri

1. first hand participation in surveys for UN LIVELIHOOD, WASH, FOOD clusters coordinated by United Nations, UNHCR
2. witnessed specialists from around the world uniting efforts around maps, sharing data, producing reports
3. Witnessed how developing country functions from individual and local government units
4. started to collect maps and curated data on various aspects of life: demographics, terrain models, weather, old maps

2015 BUDOTS MEDIA

These experiences were later applied to securing my livelihood in Cebu, Philippines. The most logical step for me was to establish a media company, as it would capitalize on the rapidly growing online population and the local population’s desire for media consumption.

This was validated by my founding of BUDOTS MEDIA, where we relied heavily on drones as a means of obtaining cinematic footage. Since 2021, I have been acquiring hardware, training myself and other FPV pilots, and pitching and preparing challenging flights, including those over water, from boats, or over VIP events. The culmination of these efforts can be seen in videos featuring aerial footage delivered to clients ie:

Philippines Department of Tourism, JPARK Hotel and Resort and many others predominantly in adventure tourism and hospitality.

Ironman 2022 IronKids, Cebu Philipppines largest dorne project with 6 pilots in various point on the route of 70 mile long, annual Ironman 70.3

2024 Noveau Camiguin island resort

2024 Harley Davidson Sinulog Ride Cebu, Philippines

2024 ’15 years of Jpark Resort and Hotel, Maribago, LapuLapu City, Philippines’

YEAR 2019 AEC, SURVEYS IN THE UK

While in the UK, I was engaged in short term, self employed type of gig work in security and since 2017, fire safety, while stil working on freelance internet gigs and running projects in the Philippines remotely (tourism, media and data).

I have felt rising demand for aerial surveys initially limited to video and photographic documentation of projects, like building cladding replacement.

Gradually it expanded into leak surveys, fire damage documentation and eventually into more complex, photogrammetry jobs.

Recent Examples:
https://vimeo.com/970653149 EBrik, Clarion Chelsea
https://vimeo.com/952269387 EBrik, Clarion Sutton

Most importantly, I have personally witnessed how strong London AEC industry quickly incorporated advancements in software and dramatically reduced costs of sensors. London also offered challenging, but accessible ground for leanring fpv flights.

Learnings from London were transferred to Cebu Philippines where standards of construction are well behind advanced economies.

Example of the mission planning proces in challneging setting of Guadelupe, Cebu City, Philippines [ Aerial Data Ops, Budots Media PH ]

4. YEAR 2023 — UKRAINE DRONE WAR, SAUDI ARABIA’s MEGAPROJECTS, CHATGPT

Year 2023 whenm I personally witnessed the scale of mega construction projects such as NEOM, DIRIYAH GATE, and RIYAD 7th CITY in Saudi Arabia, I was convinced of the continued rise of the drone in AEC industry worldwide.

Suadi is a home of numerous engineers from Saudi and nearby countries such as Jordan, Pakistan local univeristies and technology champions like Aramco, King Fahd Univeristy of Minerals and Petroloeum, VC companies and drone companies itself FALCONVIZ.

The mega projects wirtll be fueled by cheap raw materisl, fuel and well educated and motivated workforce.

2016 + UAS IN WARFARE (RESEARCH)

The rapid advancements in unmanned drone technology in Ukraine, is a real sign that technology is here to stay and will trickle down towards civilian use. The advancement from 5 main drone types att the beginning of the fullscale conflcit in Febrary 2024 to over 200 known drone types in Decemeber 2024 is remarkable.

2 years took to evolve carton drones with crude manual controls, to autonomous targeting, jet engines, strike avoidance capabilities. The scope of the advancement became apparent after I have translated documents distributed among the drone units on either Ukraininan or Russian Side.

ChatGPT is main talking point in the Architecture software world.
NEMETESCHEK AI LAYER
Text2BIM: Building Models Using a LLM based Multi-Agent Framework
Bentley Systesm: OpenSite+
Autodesk Revit, Construction Cloud with MS Copilot

I am certain that the integration of GIS and data through Large Language models will accelerate this trend, ultimately enhancing surveying and AEC efficiency. Already several interesting papers have poped up :
GeoGPT: An assistant for understanding and processing geospatial tasks

UAV-Borne Mapping Algorithms for Low-Altitude and High-Speed Drone Applications

Autonomous GIS: the next-generation AI-powered GIS

GEOFORGE: geospatial analysis with LLM

2023, where key technologies emerged: Gaussian Splatting.

3D Gaussian Splattng, probabilisitic pointcloud rendering method as a viable alternative to meshes. Field advacing rapidly and already most of my scans are done using this technology, mostly from low form camera droens like DJI Mini or AIR 3, with least flight restrictions and most conveniant for a rapid deployment and operated by a solo flyer.

A List of Gaussian Splatts 2023–2024 google drive

Bpresentation, featuring ‘cool’ Luma AI magic reveal: slides.com/bartsakwerdauk/bart-sakwerda-drone-scans-london/fullscreen

THAILAND, BANGKOK

EVTOL FLIGHTS IN LONDON

Currently working with variosu image analysis libraries and Unreal Engine, to advance Air Mobility and improve quality of scans.

Some further references and links :

linkedin.com/in/bart-sakwerda-sec-fire-drones
slides.com/bartsakwerdauk/bart-sakwerda-drone-scans-london/fullscreen
website bartsakwerda.com/aerial-drone-surveys/
List of Gaussian Splatts 2023–2024 google drive
sketchfab @BartSakwerda https://sketchfab.com/bart.sakwerda
sketchfab Philippines https://sketchfab.com/dataops
sketchfab Arabia https://sketchfab.com/bart.arabiya
https://www.facebook.com/aerial.data.ops

Michelle Dee, Filipina professional model, finalist of the Miss Universe 2023.

Concept: Bart Sakwerda, Budots Media (@budots_media), featuring an original dress design by Michelle Dee (@MichelleDee), Mark Bumgarner (@markbumgarner), and Personifi.io (@personifi.io). Michelle Dee, a finalist in Miss Universe 2023, inspired this design. It’s a complex, meshed dress reflecting traditional tribal tattoos from the Philippines.

Our previous attempts at fitting meshes using the AR Filter in Snapchat, along with its advanced full-body tracker, were suboptimal.

Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group #OutfitAnyone approach appears more practical and fitting, offering easier implementation for e-commerce websites and fashion retail. However, I anticipate the integration of scanning and generative 3D technology in the coming months.Stunning Michelle Dee, her dress and how her designs can be projected onto average persons body using AR or Gann.

BUDOTS MEDIA on Twitter: "Technology Demonstration: hashtag#OutfitAnyone Transforming original designs onto models with refined pose and cloth physics, or first "virtual try-on that wont suck"Concept: @BartSakwerda @budots_media, featuring an original dress design by @MichelleDee @Mark_Bumgarner pic.twitter.com/vKZQT0D8aC / Twitter"

Technology Demonstration: hashtag#OutfitAnyone Transforming original designs onto models with refined pose and cloth physics, or first "virtual try-on that wont suck"Concept: @BartSakwerda @budots_media, featuring an original dress design by @MichelleDee @Mark_Bumgarner pic.twitter.com/vKZQT0D8aC

BUDOTS MEDIA on Twitter: "https://t.co/8CnyIFf8m9 pic.twitter.com/HJjA71dkWF / Twitter"

https://t.co/8CnyIFf8m9 pic.twitter.com/HJjA71dkWF

https://www.pinterest.ph/budotsmedia/project-michelle-dee-dress-ar-filter/

The aim was to illustrate the absurdity of certain situations through the concept of “diffusion” imperfect characters resembling public people in the criminal spotlight in the Philippines.

The Philippine media landscape is a vibrant tapestry, reflecting diverse socio-political narratives. Within this milieu, the emergence of religious leaders like Pastor Apollo Quiboloy with their media outletsSMNI, represents a unique phenomenon of charismatic religious and political figures, whose followers tend to accept and propagate their messages without critical examination.

In ealry 2022 US FBI Federal issued wanted warrant of arrest

Pastor Quiboloy was arrested in Davao, former president Duterte strnghold in September 2024 and remains in custody as of November 2024.

When arriving in typhoon-torn Philippines in 2014, I had only crude a4 ink printouts i made quckly in Thailand. Little did i predict right, but the fact the disaster zone wont offer luxury of electricity, printers or internet would hamer organization and navigation was right.

Since then I have accumulated variety of digital maps, shape files and layers useful when visualizing South East asia from various angles.

WEATHER & SATTELITE

MULTIMEDIA

This type of maps ideally illustrate travel progress (travel destination suggestions).

TOURISM MAPS

LANGUAGE CONSIDERATIONS

We have worked on the chatbots in numerous dialects, used by the users concurently ie. Cebuano language migth be initatied but conversation also includes abbreviations (‘hm’ ‘prices’, ‘bayad’), english and Filipino.
​

I​ have compiled lists of sentences for training entities and intents​ in​ Google DialogFlow. ​​Using that sample modeled @intents and @entities (including composite bi-variate entities).

​ ​https://github.com/PhilippinesTourismCompany/tourism-chatbot-training-philippines

Recognition of intents can be tested here:

https://bot.dialogflow.com/cebu-port-hagnaya​

JAPANESE, DIFFERENT CHARACTER SET

DATA CURATION, GDPR

We took note of data privacy policies, including EU GDPR. A link leads to standard Privacy Policy and Terms of Service we are using.
https://github.com/PhilippinesTourismCompany/ChatBot-Legals ​

CEBU CHATBOT DEVELOPMENT MEETUP

​That has been all done this year, 1 year after first CHATBOT DEVELOPERS & CALLCENTER AUTOMATION MEETUP in Cebu, Philippines.​
We hope 2019 will provide us with more opportunities to learn, experiment and contribute to conversational interface development.

References:
https://bartsakwerda.com
https://linkedin.com/in/bartsakwerda

vr and 360

Since 2016, under the BUDOTS MEDIA brand I established, I have been pioneering the use of 360 cameras, capturing and creating immersive experiences to promote tourism and real estate in the Philippines.

Promoting tourism in the Philippines

image recognition and machine learning

Marketing and video production

Bots — automation of customer service

Biggest industry in Cebu is BPO (Business Process Outsourcing). As a whole that industry employs hundreds of thousands Filipinos making inbound/outbound calls. Philippines being in the East Asian Time Zone ( UTC+8) is an attractive outsourcing destination for english-speaking countries USA, AUSTRALIA, CANADA.

BPO industry depends on employing cheap labour (8 hours shift is a widely used cost estimate in call centers costing client 100 usd per 80–200 calls depending on the nature of the calls) in a large urban areas of the Philippines like Manila and Cebu.

Natural progression of the BPO industry is automation of call centers.
Automation of VOICE calls is progressing in the several different fields:

Organizatorzy PNIRF (Międzynarodowy Festiwal Rugby w Piotrowicach Nyskich) mają przyjemność zaprosić potencjalnych sponsorów lub dostawców do wzięcia udziału w siódmej edycji turnieju, która odbędzie się w Piotrowicach Nyskich (woj. opolskie), dnia 26 sierpnia 2017 (sobota).

Poprzednie edycje festiwalu gościły około 200 zawodników z krajów europejskich reprezentujących kobiece i męskie rugby — drużyny 7osobowe i 15-osobowe z Polski, Czech, Niemiec, Holandii, Malty, Austrii, Wielkiej Brytanii, Litwy i Japonii…

Turniej jest amatorski i każda donacja ma ogromne znaczenie. Jestesmy otwarci na inicjatywy sponsorów, by uczynić PNIRF jeszcze ciekawszą imprezą.

Co oferujemy w zamian:ekskluzywną prezentację na festiwalu;promocję marki, którą reprezentujemy w Europie i Japonii, w środowisku rugby;promocję waszej marki na naszych materiałach promocyjnych;jesteśmy otwarci na inne sugestie.

W tym roku naszymi sponsorami sa:

• Rhino Rugby (artykuły rugby, firma międzynarodowa)
• Gonga Rugby (sklep z artykułami rugby, Polska)
• Schleckdurf (producent mrożonych napojów, Austria)
• Samurai Sake ( producent japońskiego wina, Japonia)

Więcej informacji:
https://www.facebook.com/The-Piotrowice-Nyskie-InternationalRugby-Festival-167584456722162
https://www.pnirf.com

Prosimy zainteresowanych o jak najszybszy kontakt. Mamy nadzieję, że w tym roku będzie jeszcze więcej zabawy niż w latach poprzednich.

Z poważaniem, Satoshi Takehana (organizator)
info@pnirf.com +44 0797 961 1832

2016 AppOps PH: machine learning in whaleshark identification — project in Cebu, Philippines (DRAFT)

Analysis of images(tourists photos) leading to identification of individual whale-sharks in Oslob, Philippines.

Moved to KAGGLE in 2018.
Data set on ROBOFLOW 2023.

Since February 2017 we have produced 9 short videos promoting several original tracks featuring vocals of miss Madeleine Wood, australian recording artist.

Aim was to film, edit short videos and publish them on the same day with minimal time and budget. The videos supposed to be under 2 minutes in length, compatible with both 16:9 hd format as well as instagram video size 1080x1080 px. Please check them out.

Interviews