Good morning. My name is Francesco Nazzaro. Today I'm going to talk about image recognition and camera positioning with OpenCV, a tourist guide application. I work for Be Open Solutions in Rome. We developed software solutions for managing and publishing geospatial data using open source software based on Linux and Python. Image recognition is a field in evolution. Big companies invest a lot of resources in this research field. The main issues in image recognition are the following. First of all, we have to implement a human ability. This is a very big challenge. The images to compare can be distorted and oriented in different ways. So we have to detect several features, and the algorithm of detection will be a scaling variant. For our scope, we can feel to use a ready to use image recognition tool like Google Images. Let's see why we don't use it. This is a typical image taken with a smartphone or Google Glass, and we have to recognize the picture in the center and not the arm of my boss or the bag. In Google Images, we cannot define a library of images, so it tries to match all the features in our image, not only the pictures' features. So we recognize room with a picture in the center or other things. So we have to find another strategies. Let's try to understand what could be the best candidate as a feature. Let's take a rectangle, for example. We can find three possible areas. The zone A is a flat surface. If we move the area in any direction, the contact of the square A will not change in aspect, so we cannot localize the position of A. The zone B is an edge. If we move the zone in the vertical direction, the contact of the square B will change, but not in the horizontal direction, so we can distinguish the position of the zone B all in the vertical direction. The optimal case is the zone C that is a corner. In fact, we can distinguish the vertical and horizontal position of the zone. So the best candidate to be the features are the corner, because they have an orientation. So we need a corner detection algorithm. This algorithm should be scaling variant. The reason is shown in the figure. An only variant algorithm will recognize the left line as a corner, but it will recognize the same line, but bigger, as two or three corners. For the reason, we need a scaling variant algorithm. The solution is the scaling variant feature transform algorithm by David Law. Here are presented the basic steps of this algorithm. First of all, a difference of Gaussian's operator is applied to the image, varying the standard deviation. The result is a distribution, and the extrema of the distribution are the scaling variant blobs. Different of Gaussian's detects corners and edges. An algorithm like every corner detector is used to lay out edges. To obtain rotation invariance, an orientation is assigned to every key point. Then for each key point, a descriptor vector is created. Key points are deficient recognized. Key points matching is performed through nearest neighbor algorithm between descriptors. OpenCV has various recognition algorithms already implemented, and it has a Python binding. Let's see an example using SIFT algorithm. First of all, we import the image in black and white. Indeed, image recognition algorithms are color independent. We instantiate SIFT algorithm. Every image recognition algorithm in OpenCV has a function called detect and compute that returns key points and descriptors. This function may have four parameters for image recognition that can be optimized for the specific case. OpenCV also has a function to represent key points and their orientation on the image. The colored circles are the key points recognized, and they have an orientation. We perform the same projects on the image in the library. We can imagine that we can have several images in our library. We match descriptors with a nearest neighbor algorithm called Fland. We store the good matches following those ratio tests described in the article. Starting from the number of the key points matched, we can understand if the image has been recognized. So we can set a threshold on the number of matches, above which we can say that we have recognized the picture. This threshold is closely related to the algorithm and to the parameters used for the recognition. In this slide, I show an example of a major recognized and not recognized. We can see that the number of matches is significantly different. For this example, I use the SIFT algorithm. For our application, we use the SERF algorithm that is an approximation of SIFT. We use it because it is more computationally performed, so for real-time recognition is better. But the number of key points found by this algorithm is significantly lower than the difference between the recognized and not recognized case. The difference can be very small. So we have to find a strategy to avoid false positives. We developed an algorithm to compute the position of the observer, so we will have a method to exclude false positives. Let's try to compute the position of the observer with respect to the image. We have to find the transformation that links the library image and the picture in the photo. This transformation is called homography and links different projective planes. We have two cameras, A and B, looking at the same point P in a plane. The projections of P in A and B are respectively PA and PB, and we can express PA in function of PB, Ks and M. M is the homography and it can be expressed through R that is the rotation matrix and T that is the translation. And the Ks matrices are the camera intrinsic parameters, so we can compute them. This process is called camera calibration and it is performed through chessboard method. We take pictures of a chessboard from different angles and we find the corners of the chessboard with the algorithm, for example, and we find a distortion to obtain straight lines. We can see that in this photo the lines of the chessboard are slightly distorted and we have to correct this behavior. This process is already implemented in OpenCV through the functions find chessboard corners and calibrate camera. Starting from these parameters, we can apply a transformation to the image. Now we can see that the lines of the chessboard are more straight. Now we can compute the position of the image, of the picture in the image. First of all, we have to extract the matching key points for the image and for the library image. The OpenCV function find homography, extract the homography transformation from two set of points. And now we can create an array with four corners of the picture and then transform the points with the homography matrix M. This is done by the OpenCV function perspective transform and we note that the computed homography is good because the red rectangle is over the picture in the image. Let's see that we can use this method to exclude false positive. In this case, we have a lot of matches. So if we induce to think that we have recognized the picture, but the picture is not the same. If we compute the position, the picture positioning, we can note that it is wrong. In fact, the red rectangle does not fit with the real position of the picture. So we have false positive and we have found it because of the wrong positioning. We tested image recognition also in 3D case. And we can start with a picture of the constant time arc taken from the right. Image recognition in this case doesn't work because there are too many differences between the images. So we have image recognition works if in the library is included also an image of the arc from the right. So we need at least three images in the library from left, right and center. Obviously, we can apply this algorithm only in the case of fronts of objects very characteristic as arcs or charges, therefore in touristy case. We use the image recognition in a Google Glass application. It is a tourist guide application that plays media contents based on localization. For now, it was tested in the archaeological area of the Palatino. In this application, image recognition is used for advanced location based on what you are watching and based on the planimetry of the place. And it is used to play advanced information the artwork you are watching. Thank you for your attention. If you have any questions. Thank you. I have a question. Do you do any other transformations to enhance the image quality before you do any processing? For example, are you trying to detect if the image is blurry or there are sparks from street lights or something? Can you repeat? Let's say you take a picture with your mobile phone and the camera isn't focused properly. Do you take the picture as it is or do you have other algorithms how to improve the picture so you can run your analysis? No, we tested different cameras and every camera has a calibration matrix that corrects the distortion of the camera. But the images must be focused and the blurring is not allowed. In your example you had that red square and you could easily see that it was in some cases wrong but how does the computer see that it is wrong? Okay, one moment. With this computation we can compute also the position of the observer and we have to extract the rotation and translation from the homography. So OpenCV has also two useful functions. One is to solve PMP that from MTX and DIST that are camera intrinsic parameters and the distorted image extract the rotation vectors and the translation vectors. From this OpenCV has also implemented Rodriguez that is an algorithm that extracts from rotation vectors are rotation metrics and so we can compute the translation in the system reference of the image of the picture and then if the translation is how can I say is wrong so if the translation is back of the image for example we can exclude these two up or two down respect of the picture we can exclude this match. Okay, thank you. More questions? No questions? Okay, hi. Is this a presentation available somewhere? Yes, it's the link with out so you can find on my link in pages. One more question? One more question and you said you did the library that is you only recognize a certain number of pictures, how large can the library be for real time processing just 10 pictures, hundreds, thousands? We tested with 10 pictures in the library but we can improve this number but the time is the computational time is increased so we can parallelize the projects because they are independent. More questions? When you do image recognition I often see green lines going outside of the red square so basically you find the position of the image on your base image and why do you use features extracted outside of red area? Why don't you dream only to features that are inside the red square? When the features are outside the picture. Why do you compare them? Okay, for example, in this example, okay. So we can go to the arc example where we can see red square and some features like this you can see green lines below the red square. Okay, he performed a fit obviously for the positioning. So the key points outside the image, so the wrong key points are less than the except key points. So the fit exclude them probably with a key square test or? More questions? I have a question about the demo that you did. Where do you do the processing on the glass or do you send it somewhere to an external server to do it? I don't understand, excuse me. So in your application for the historical site you said that you display information depending on where you are in the site. Yeah. And for that you need to figure out where you are so you're comparing to an image in your library, right? It localizes with GPS but the error for GPS is the order of meters and we can find your localization through extract what you're watching in the place. So we can preselect the object that you're watching, the nearest object for the GPS. And you do the processing that you have in your image, right? You compare what you see with the library. Is that on the glass? No, it's server side. When you're converting to grayscale because you're potentially losing detail information, are you just doing a flat grayscale computation or are you doing any kind of optimization of the process of moving into grayscale? We use the surf algorithm because it is more computationally performant. I mean before you're running the surf algorithm you're converting a color image to grayscale. At least you suggest, I thought that was what you were doing first. Are you doing just, is there any kind of special grayscaling you're doing or is it just the conventional, does OpenCV do any kind of special? No, just this. More questions? No questions? Thank you for your attention.


Again, as 3021 is wrapping up, a PDP chieftain, Shagun Shaw Misaes, the country, has at least survived, expressed a worrisome on the current administration's view and embracing debt and what it is used for. I'm concerned about and I've always been the economic trajectory of the party in government in the sense that their desire to embrace debts and the things they are using the debts for have been a part of, you know, difference between my view about what we should be doing and their views as to what they should be doing. I am of the view that nations cannot use debt to fund public infrastructure that is free. I am of the view that nations can take debt to stimulate further growth within their own economy so that the economy cannot produce the wealth. They need to do that. So whether you use the public debt to build public roads that are free or you use the public debt to feed consumption and do your social intervention policies. He profiles solution on how the debt can be maximized. I believe that what should come first is the stimulation of small businesses, small older businesses in the country in such a manner that they can expand their own wealth and then you can tax them. And I believe that whatever investments government is doing, those investments must go into human capital. And what I mean in my capital, I'm talking about the creative aspect of human knowledge and education that prepares your population to be able to get a bigger chunk of the available investment in the global economy. So I think that these are the type of things that I want Nigerians to be interested in. That's what I think about that. I think most importantly, Nigerians must understand. I think most importantly, Nigerians must understand that no one is going to build the description for us.


Okay, now it's the time to start. Hi. Hello. My name is Tsugikazu Shibata, come from Tokyo, Japan. Sorry. This session will be updated for the long-term support initiative. How many people are well-known about LTSI? Oh, thank you. That's good. In my first page, my name is Tsugikazu Shibata, working for NEC and a founder and project leader of LTSI, this project. I'm involved with Linux kernel since 2.4, maybe 15 years ago or so, and worked for both industry and community. For the community side, I have provided a translated version of how to document and so on. It was translated into Japanese. And also, I'm a board member of the Linux Foundation. The Linux Foundation is covering a lot of interesting open source projects, but I'm hopefully trying to keep Linux in the best open source project. Before going into details, let's look at the Linux is running where? Actually, Linux is running a multiple use case. New York, London, Tokyo, stock exchanges using Linux and every day, every single minute for the network infrastructure. In Tokyo, lots of people are using, even not even in Tokyo, lots of people are using Linux for their smartphone or transferring their own voice and text messaging. Amazon, Google, Facebook and Twitter, such kind of social messaging service for the infrastructure, Linux is running every day. And also, smartphone, TV, camera and router and lots of embedded devices running on top of Linux. And also, as Linus and Dacondale mentioned in the panel discussion, lots of architecture is running Linux. And the most important point is that all those come from a single source code. And by a single source code, they're covering all these activities. That's Linux. And how the Linux is developing, more than 1,700 developers, more than 230 companies joining Linux kernel community every release. And nearly 1.5 million lines of code, 4,000 files are increased. And that is the Linux developers community. And also, 26 years of history is long. It's not a young project, but it's really stable and useful. And the most important point is that the maintainers have a great skill to manage the subsystem and professional knowledge about how it's technologies. I think the Linux is the best technology in the world for Linux, no, Unix like a kernel. Because of these kind of skilled developer maintainers gathering to the single place. Here is the latest status of Linux kernel. As Linus mentioned that 4.10 was released in last Sunday. And the source code is 22.8 million of lines. It was increased from last kernel 4.9. It's 491 kilolines. The files were 57,000. There is 966 files were added from 4.9. And within 70 days. 70 days means 10 weeks. Within 10 weeks, this development will happen. That is continuously happening. And also current stable kernel is 4.9.11. And the development kernel is in the margin window toward 4.11. I will explain some more details for this kind of development process. So how many kernel is providing every year in this picture? In 2014, there were six kernel version was released. It's something like 313 to 318. In 2015, there were five release were happened. And 2016, six release were happened. So yearly five or six version are released constantly. Within 65 days to 70 days. From 4.7 to 4.10, it took 70 days, just 70 days. The same release time frame, same release span. It is kind of a well coordinated development process. And also, this is a Linux development policy. The upstream is only the place to accept the patches. Because of the Linux, it finally decided to propose the patch into mainline or not by a reviewed skilled maintainer. And tested with other proposal to confirm without any conflicts. And we will coordinate the development process over thousands of developers, so that lots of developers get together, review every single code, and merge into Linux. That's upstream. As I figure out this picture, upstream includes always new features, proposed experimental features plus fixes. That is bugs and security fixes. These old patches come to the single place. That is upstream, so that upstream is a single place to accept the patches. Here is the Linux development process. We are in the merge window of two weeks, because our 4.10 was released last Sunday. And mostly after merge window closed, Dash RC1234 was released every week end. The Linux is mostly releasing Dash RCX on Sunday, so the developers start the result of the merged source code and check it and send patches or fixes, and then Linux will merge on Sunday. And then next Monday, developers start. That kind of weekly development process is happening in the most of the last few couple of kernel releases. And this time, Dash RC8 was released, and then 4.10 was released, so that two weeks of merge window and also eight weeks of stabilization, that makes 10 weeks. That's the development process of Linux kernel. It's really well-coordinated. And here is source code growth from 4.0 to 4.10. It's not so much understandable. The lines of code is too much, but you can see the constant up source code. This is still 26 years later, still this code is growing. This is the power of Linux kernel community. Okay. Here is the rapid release cycle. Nearly five times or six times of kernel release means that we have a chance to more code merge into the Linux. In other projects, maybe six months release cycle, that means that nearly two times so to chance to merge the new patches. So that's 26 years of experience of Linux kernel development. So we have many chance for our own products to send patches to upstream and merge into that. That is, it's good things, but on the other hand, we need have deeper knowledge to pick right kernel version because of nearly five times and need to find out if this one is the best one to use long term. That is a problem for industry purpose. But for people who don't want to use experimental release but wanted to use the latest kernel, for that purpose there is a stable kernel release. This one is called 4.10.1, something like that. But a lifetime is just for the one version like this picture say. And when the next version was released, then stable release was happened, then all the stable kernel becomes end of life. This is one of the best kernel for the expert, people who wanted to use the latest version but don't wanted to use current experimental release. But this lifetime is so short, so they're not so much useful for industry purpose. I will talk about a more long term release, but let's get back to the latest status. I mentioned 4.10 is the latest release kernel, but the current stable kernel is 4.9.11. That means here is a current stable kernel and then 4.10.1 will be released, then 4.9, maybe 11 or whatever will be end of life. And now is the time of merge window that is right here and then maybe two weeks later on Sunday, 4.11.1 will be released. That is a kind of expectation will be really easy. That is mentioned by Lena Stobals in the panel this morning. People mostly interested in LTS that Lena's also mentioned is that extended release for stable version that is maintaining two years and pick one version per year, that is called LTS as Lena's mentioned this morning. So that once LTS decided, that will be continued to maintain in two years and also in parallel stable release will happen and each of us table is patches in back porting to on top of LTS. That is LTS. And this is maintained by Greg Hartman, he's a fellow of the Lenax Foundation so that that is really neutral activities. So why LTS? It's only the tree to get fixes from the community. The community will provide a lot of fixes on top of upstream and that will be back ported on top of LTS. And this fix will be released a number of times and should be applied frequently. Security and Bank Fix is being more important for industry purpose. So what is how many versions are currently provided from the community? This is the list. Most upper portion is 4.9 is the latest proposed fix, the latest LTS version maintained by Greg and that was released last year, December 15 and a projected end of life will be January 2019. Another one is maintained by Greg for 4.4, that was started last year. As some other people are maintaining, Sasha Revin is maintained 4.1, 3.11. He was an employee of Oracle for the purpose of Oracle Lenax but now he's moving to other companies so that maybe these ones are neutral. But 3.16 is maintained by Ben Hutchings. He's working for Debian Stable Canal so that 3.16 is for the specifics for Debian. ZD Slubby is working for SUSE, so the purpose is SUSE Lenax. And will it tell you it's a French network equipment engineer is maintained 3.10 for his own older router purpose. ZD Leed-Zephan is working far away for their own devices and Ben Hutchings is also maintained for Debian so that for the purpose of our own devices that should be really neutral so that Greg's one is the best version and 4.2 was really old and 4.9 is expected to be a longer term purpose. That is the best one I think in this point of time. How many overfixes are included in each of stable or long-term versions? I counted the number of fixes from 3.0 to 4.9. Let's look at the right one. No, sorry, the left one is LTS. So let's pick up 3.10. That is still maintained and 5,727 fixes are included in 104 releases. So if we can backport these 5,000 patches on top of our own product it's so hard, but using this one is really easy. That's the value of LTS. And 3.10 is really old. So the 4.4 was released in just last year. It spent about one year. That is also included 3,600 of patches. So this is the real value of using LTS. And also, stable version is mostly less than 1,000 patches in 70 days in a lifetime. So that every one release less than 1,000 of fixes provided in upstream and maybe need to backport in a real industry purpose kernel. That depends on how we can use the kernel portion, which plays the kernel portion we are using. And I also counted the number of fixes yearly so that 4.9 is just released but still 800. 4.4 was released in last year. It spent 1.1 years. That means 3,300 fixes yearly. And 4.1 was already spent 1.6 years. That means 2,000 fixes included. So using LTS is a lot of value for industry purpose. That is the point I wanted to tell this. So we can understand LTS is really valuable. What is LTSI? LTSI is an open source community to create and maintain Linux kernel for a long time based on LTS. And we will have a chance to more patches to be included on top of LTS. That is LTSI. And it's the same lifetime. And also we have a having a lot of workshop and place where the discussion each other or the issue and problem happen. And then some other party have same problem and they have a workaround that will be able to share using LTSI mailing list or workshop and so on. Here is picture what is LTSI and LTS. Most bottom portion LTS have release one version per year and maintain 2 years. And the free country and large number of bug fixes are provided from the community. We are mostly using Greg Cohartman's LTS. Always using that. And on top of LTS we will be able to add vendor-required features as a purchase and share status information problem among industry people about mailing list and workshop. And huge testing by contributors. There is number of company seriously using LTSI so that that company will test in the LTSI's development process and report back to the mailing list. That will be one of the value for the industry purpose. And also we have all test framework. That name called FUEGO. That meaning by a team board he had keynote no organizer of this ELC. And we have providing help developer for upstream. The number of people ask us and then Greg Cohartman help them to send parts to upstream. We have this kind of framework of LTSI. Here is the history. We have established LTSI activity in 2011 at the ELC Europe Prague. And that was started for the purpose of Android because in that time Google provided the Android distribution every six months with every time other kernel version is used so that we have lots of problems every time six-month cycle new kernels happen, how to stabilize, how to testing that for by each individual company. That was so hard that people get together and try to create this LTSI project. And after that we have discussed with YOKTO project that was presented by Imad Soussu in this keynote. YOKTO we have discussed with YOKTO as included LTSI kernel for them. And also we have had a workshop and session to share information most of every Linux foundation's event. And also we have released this kind of kernel version for yearly basis. That's a history of LTSI. And the shape of LTSI project, this is a really small staff we have. Three, four staff is not working for full time but coordinate workshop and session at Linux most of the Linux foundation's conference to share between the people what are the status of Linux kernel development, what's the value of LTS. And also we invited Greg Kohartman as a maintainer even for LTSI so that Greg is maintaining LTS and also LTSI. That's a really great situation.  And we are working with upstream kernel community to find the issue of how the kernel community is looking at industry. And we are discussing with kernel community the situation of how the industry is doing hard but what is the thinking of Linux kernel community. And we are standing on intermediate stage and try to create, try to say our opinion to community and try to transfer what is community's thinking into industry that is our position. That is a neutral and to be able to use for more variety of purpose. In that sense, in the kernel summit last year in December time frame there was a huge discussion that happened of the upstream fast policy that this one is very old days of Linux distros. In that time upstream fast policy discussion happened around 2005 or 2007. In that time there were SUSE Linux or Red Hat Linux trying to provide their own distribution and then they pick one version for Linux kernel and then new fixes will be back ported in the green circle to back port and then user will use such downstream kernel. But in that time there was not enough feature is implemented into Linux kernel so the user wanted to add their own patches to for the next version. So the users are asking, always asked to downstream distributors. It's really easy. But so that this will happen that they need to pick the patches from upstream and also users. It is so hard. So that's a lot of discussion happened and then community and distributors decided the upstream fast policy that is like this. All the people wanted to add their own patch to the next kernel then send patch to upstream to merge into a newer version and then newer version will be used by the distributor and then user can use distributors kernel. This is the upstream fast policy. As I mentioned upstream is a single place to merge the patches into the latest kernel version. This is upstream fast policy and nowadays lots of community is stating we are using upstream fast policy not just a kernel but also some other open source communities. This is really important. This is not just a kernel. If we use some of the database open source database and add something to our own patches into the database but the database open source database is more development and then newer version have no feature another feature then our own patch will not be able to run. So that upstream fast policy is important for every single open source community. But it is not so easy because our production kernel is kind of this figure that we will use kernel from SOC vendors. SOC vendors mostly use LTS and plus their own patches for something maybe depending on SOCs. And for our own development process we will add our own changes features, drivers and fixes according to development of our own product so that except LTS these other patches need to be merged into upstream then that will become the LTS that is the upstream fast policy but it is not easy because LTS is only back ported from upstream fixes and securities no chance to add the new fit our own drivers and fixes so that LTS try to find a chance to merge these patch into LTS i3 on top of LTS that will cause more chance to include our own features to our own product. Here is the development process of LTS i. Once LTS i version was fixed then we will announce preparation timeframe that will take 4 to 6 months that means two of upstream release process within this 4 to 6 months you have this kind of our own changes to be upstreamed and then we will open up the merge window during that merge window timeframe we will be able to send patch to LTS i mailing list that will be a chance to merge such latest upstream features on top of all the LTS version that is the value of LTS i and we will have one or two months of merge window process and then Greg will review each individual patches proposed for every industry people and then merge into LTS i3 and then release Dash Rc1 and after Dash Rc1 was released one month of validation period will happen and then release it that is LTS i process here is the latest plan of this year's LTS i development we are in this timeframe today is the day for announcement of this year's LTS i development we will start preparation phases for 6 months that means we will have a chance for 4.11 and 4.12 your patch can be proposed to Linux kernel community and then we will open up our own merge window from early July to end of July and within that month Greg will review the proposed patch and merge it into LTS i3 and the validation period will be one month during August timeframe and then that will be released in early September hopefully if any of the big problem will not happen and then we will ask YOKTO project to be included in their new release in YOKTO 2.2 that will be hopefully happening in the end of October and then you will be able to use LTS i with YOKTO on top of 4.9 plus your own patches that is a current plan and we will soon announce this development plan in LTS i mailing list if you are interested in please join us our own mailing list and looking at what will be happen and also we have a plan to have our own session for the Linux Foundation event such as open source summit in Japan and also open source summit in North America and then Linux conference Europe and so on This was a plan but for this year's challenges I try to figure out how about 64 bits in 4.10 release Huawei or LG's Nexus 506 64 bit support patches merged into 4.10 and some other devices like Reneta some other SOCs 64 bit patches also merged into 4.10 not just 4.9 so that will be a chance to backboard on top of 4.9 LTS i version and another point is that that will be started both 32 bits and 64 bit error that is some what migration from 32 to 64 bits takes long term, long years that we are already having experience for Windows 32 to 64 bits or 16 to 32 that takes long years 4 or 5 years so that maintaining two apps and libraries may become a double effort so that burden will become big so that I this is my own opinion but earlier we need to decide just only 64 bits not just having 32 and 64 bits Apple is starting to move to 64 bits and application may not prefer running on top of Mac OS X that is happening that is one of the issue another issue is that VM support KBM then on top of architecture maybe necessary or not that is a really important point but who will own the development of KBM on top of architecture it is so hard not just a single company can achieve the result so many people get together maybe a single place to test VM support that is required maybe LTS i is okay or not I'm not sure but depending on the people we will be able to help something and on the other hand containers support Habat container the container is starting from IT infrastructure but container for the embedded area container is maybe used for packaging technology for delivering applications so that it may be okay for the future usage for the containers but container right now developing on top of X86 architecture for the servers and on top of 64 bits so that using container on top of ARM and 64 bits may take more development resources so that this one also need to think about for the DCS development we will be able to use this technology by back porting on top of 3.9 LTS using LTS i process so if everyone is interested in these technologies sharing the knowledge between the industries please let us know and send email to LTS i mailing list another interesting activity is like this related project Fuego is maintained by Tim Bird is an organizer of ELC and he mentioned that Fuego is a pre-installed test package run by Jenkins plus specific script inside the containers this is the whole packages you can use this one so automated testing for your product because this one is started from LTS i project but Tim is really interested in this project and wanted to maintain so he this is LTS i related project his session will happen in Thursday or so and use case two of use case is happening one is AGL automotive grade renaissance Toyota is reading this project and also Daimler and some other Nissan or Honda is joining this and this one is already released a three version UCB unified code base 3.0 was released in January and demonstrated at CES this one is using Yokuto and also LTS i so that the automotive industry is really using LTS i project that is strong use case of LTS i and other one is CIP civil infrastructure platform they established by some other factory use case project they wanted to use more longer term super long term the more than 15 years or so but on top of LTS and LTS i and after LTS i will become end of life they will take over the maintenance of LTS i that is the plan of their activities both two automotive grade renaissance civil infrastructure platform session will happen in this ELC so if you are interested in please join their session and if you are interested in please join us and your opinion will be shared within LTS i community and that is really interesting and if you are interested in please join us and your opinion will be shared within LTS i community and that is really interesting and that is really important for our project and we will have a workshop today from 4pm the director suite on the third floor if you are interested please come to us that one will be a real opinion we share the place where the real opinion my company have this kind of program and my company have also how to solve that that kind of workshop will happen if you are interested in please join us so that is my presentation and thank you so much and if you have any question please raise your hand what what I don't know sorry 4.9 I will upload my slide on the ELC site sorry it is not yet uploaded but I will commit this one will be uploaded and with fixing 3.924 are there any comments or questions ok thank you so much


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A study shows that asian actors are cast in roles that are just too white and not culturally specific to them being asian Let's talk about what this really means. Oh my goodness and apparently if you read the comment section it means a lot We're talking about a study from the norman lear center at usc Andra and they're talking about the meaningful risk to casting asian roles in proximity to whiteness and this sparked so many debates What does it even mean to act asian? It is okay for an asian to act white Is it okay for an asian to act black?  Try to act white or try to act black in america What's going on man? So make sure you like subscribe and turn on your notifications because this one It's a little complicated, but you know what is not complicated Smala sauce a sauce that is eastern and western not trying too hard to be either one But probably a little bit more eastern check it out. Smala sauce.com. We are shipping right now very proud of it Anyways guys, um, they said andra in the top hundred titles on streaming platforms in 2022 Like basically almost all let's just say 95 out of 100 of the asians in the top hundred streaming titles That were asian american acted more white than anything according to the study Okay, like acted close and proximity to whiteness. They're not talking to other asian characters. They're not talking about cultural specificity They're not making deep cut asian jokes or even asian jokes at all It's almost like these characters were written for white people But then just given to an asian and people were debating is that right wrong? Is it a deis? It tokenization or is it actually how some asian americans really are in irl? Yeah, I mean I have some reasons why I think that is So a few reasons one is that some of these asian actors are getting thrust into these non asian roles For diversity purposes or they're like, hey, this is a side character We don't have to put another white person here. This asian actor can do the job Let's just slip him in there give him a white name. It doesn't matter for example Katie burrannek being played by constants wool in the terminal list It's not really brought up that she's asian But she's a pretty asian woman and she almost is just she's playing the character without with the eastern european last name Right, right. Who knows? I mean, maybe she could have been adopted, right? They could make that excuse, right? um, also I think that a lot of asian actors who go into hollywood are kind of I don't want to say white wash but essentially more like into white culture because theater acting If you've ever taken acting class, even if you took an improv class, it feels white It's not necessarily wrong that it feels white But you understand what i'm saying like those are things designed by white people when I took you talking about the theater When I took a theater class in college one theater class in college My teacher or professor was a black woman, but you could say when you are watching her teach I don't know.  I don't know. You know what i'm saying? So I guess like uh, that's also another Aspect of it a lot of the writers might be looking at even that specific actor and be like, yeah They could pull this white character off. Yeah They they feel white to me when I'm in them doing the reads Yeah, and then a lot of uh good asian actors themselves in their real life are very americanized Minus a lot of the asian actors who are born in asia that came here to work such as ronnie chang jimmy Oh, yang those guys or grace park or phrase like they they they have to or dan even daniel day kim these guys They're they're clearly very asian. They're very in tune with the asian I feel like almost like 60 percent of the time asianness is brought up in their character Maybe not like a a deep Aas type convo, but it just might play into the content, right? So I I I guess my main question though is and a lot of the main Grype about this is one What does it mean to play an asian character?  That's in the movie for 10 minutes Do you have to make some reference to taking off your shoes before they get into the house? Something like that, right? Is that what you would want? Is that what people are talking about, right? And then, um, also just like I guess I guess what about like Asians from asia like k-dramas. Is that what acting asian is like like you got Like duna Right, that flicks. Right. I don't know. I mean, it's a good question I think that that's why there was so much argument in the comment section. I mean real quick is being acting asian american specifically Almost having sort of a sarcastic analytical outside.  Well, obviously the asians east asians are the robotic stereotype I think even though all those characters could have been swapped with an asian person and it would have made sense I think essentially that's gonna be seem too stereotypical Right, I guess I guess I just want to know what people are asking for if they're fed up with this I don't think actually that many people are mad about the representation lately I think because there's so much of it. You would take it, right? Like it's almost like i'll take it, but it's not perfect, but i'll take it Yeah, I mean seeing an asian face is still much way way way better than no asian I think the truth is and it's changing right now. It's becoming more 3d. It's becoming more nuanced But long story short in america for the past 100 years or so I'd say since sammy davis jr And actually since african americans were even allowed into the mainstream There's always been a white spectrum and a black spectrum And there's a middle point and I believe that asians are placed more towards white And I believe that latino people are placed more towards black And that's not necessarily fair to either group, but that is where the placement has been on the pre-existing Linear cultural spectrum of america Okay, so even though it might be more technical to make it a hexagon or a heptagon and rank it more scientifically People don't right right. All right. Let's talk about some asian characters that people are generally satisfied with Some asian actors that when they show up Even other asians are like satisfied with this representation, right? Right, I would say to me the most asian character that I ever saw on mainstream And it's so crazy I got to go so far back to do it But it makes sense because the director was asian american in himself was justin lin having sung king playing this cool manga Samurai like philosopher in fast and furious too. And you know what is crazy and I still hear asian american guys Talk about that character sometimes. How many asian guys in your real life? Do you know act like sung king in that movie? That act like him in some I wouldn't say a lot. I haven't met that many. Yeah, but I'm just saying that he felt asian though Right, he felt like a zen. No, because he felt like almost like a of the lineage of a samurai So I guess is that how you just make decisions and you don't look bad. Yeah, so is that how asians should act in real life? Like because if if if people are just writing characters Based off some asian person they've met in real life, then asian people got it Also, yeah, but I just think that the white writers who are oftentimes the writers. They probably only meet authentically more White adjacent or white washed asians in their circles, right?  I feel like we're generally satisfied with all their characters. They play What about sand those guys were born overseas? Sandra o from canada aquafina is asian american Are we are are we satisfied with the characters that they play them both? I mean, obviously we know aquafina I wouldn't say that they actually act white. I'm not saying that they You know what I mean? I wouldn't say from knowing them. Yeah, they don't act white in the characters But I guess so we should we want more asian actors to act like them less like constants. Woo, right because everybody No, one of the likes like her apparently constants. Woo in her characters and irl is like deeply deeply feels white I guess apparently that's what everybody's been saying Um, I don't know man. It's complicated. I guess I guess how do we juxtapose it with a character like boogie? Where taylor? I believe what takahara takahashi. Yeah, takahashi the the hooper. He was quote unquote acting black Do you know what I'm saying? That was uh, I guess the well, that was a theatrical release That would have counted against the hundred, right? Like that would have been right boogie wouldn't get wouldn't get counted in that.  Like, you know what I mean, whether it's like kevin hard or like mba young boy or You know tiffani had it's just something i'm saying that those are the I just feel like that's how people like triangulate things for asians you're gonna be like Either this thing that we think you are your dad is your uncle is your grandpa is and then or you're gonna be A wannabe version of this or a wannabe version of that that's how I feel like it sort of plays out for asians in a media sense And um, yeah, we're gonna get some interesting comments. Anyway, um, this guy just said Yeah, I just feel like people think that asians are close enough and it just checks a diversity box It's probably like a lot of directors They're just forced to do it because the execs are making it like a dei quota initiative So that's why you see so many asians shoved into pieces It's glad we're glad to see their faces But it's not like they like asian eyes anything I feel like part of the issue is that a lot of the asian actors are considered corny Where I think a lot of asians would be okay with Them acting like a cool version of a white guy or a cool version of a black guy Like if an asian could act like leonardo de caprio or to be honest ryan gosselin He kind of has some cool roles He's dorkier than leo though leo leo, but he doesn't play dorks though He does not play dorks right when was the last time ryan gosselin played a dork plays A dorky hunk. Yeah, but I'm just saying they're all right leo If you if a asian guy play can play like a leonardo de caprio Can play like a mccana hay or a de caprio Then we'll take it right even though he's acting like a white guy, but he's not a corny white guy But we just never have seen that I know So I guess that's what maybe since it's a hasagao But maybe that's what people are mad about like like if an asian guy can literally play like denzel I don't think they're gonna. I don't think anyone's gonna trip about that All right, and we got to get into two major debates here This one was between republican assimilated asians and assimilated but more I guess like liberal woke asians And asians who just don't even feel assimilated at all. They were in a triangle argument So this guy basically was like so you can't be too white, but also not too asian to make everybody happy These casting calls are just so ridiculous and complicated looking for an ambiguous asian of unaffensive shade And basically somebody else was like, yeah, what's wrong with being white? Some of my best friends are white and then somebody else came in and said, you know, it's okay We're not saying that that's wrong We're just saying we just need to have our culture actually shown and what makes us different and somebody else said came in and was like Yeah, you're right. I don't feel like everybody knows they stopped representing me because I am different from everybody Like all this sides So there's different groups of asians right and there's different viewpoints on this some asians Some asians wanted to just grow up and be accepted like everyone else to be able to walk in a room to walk into a role you mean be treated as a white person without It you being from a different phenotype ever being brought up Right to just be treated like literally every like your your ethnicity is not a reason that you're there And then there's another group that's like, hey, we're americanized but we hold on to our culture So I'd like to see our culture acknowledged And then there's the ones that are like the foreigner asians who are like literally like well, you know I'm just new to this country. So, you know, I really don't uh, I don't think uh, yeah I'm just I cannot penetrate the mainstream flow. Yeah, I'm an immigrant. So I think like of those three groups What group are you like, you know to the audience asking somebody said man This all comes down to wanting southeast asians from the hood that break all east asian stereotypes to finally get put on And not in a negative way only like gran terino either somebody said yes f all these model minority stereotypes I don't fit in with them. I don't relate them and somebody said I just am sick of seeing the get bullied asians I want to see some get gully asians Honestly, I wouldn't say this the whole going to solve everything but like I feel like that. Yeah, that'd be cool I I think, you know, you got to have the stories and uh I think it'd be cool. I guess like how you could tie in like in like some white movie, maybe they they should be able to encounter like a Cambodian gang or something like that like that would be interesting to write that in Like in a good way in the Cambodian gang like helps them, you know Yeah, but not just uh, not just view them in a negative light, right, right, right But then I guess is that what they want they want Cambodian gang members Or do you just want urban Filipino guys that are dancers more because I won't say this in the dance movies There probably should have been more Filipinos because there was a southeast asian guy who came in and said Hey guys, not all southeast asian characters need to be from the hood For example, we could be journalists like hang s nor from the killing fields Or there was a recent uh, vietnamese romantic Netflix show that was in vietnam that guy was obviously not like uh, johnny dang or anything like that Shout out to johnny dango. That's tight too. Somebody said, uh, yeah I mean, I guess why why is everybody not happy andrew everybody's thinking that this is gonna solve it That's gonna solve it I just think that the truth is people want more playable characters in street fighter You know in street fighter andrew you had to beat the lower characters to like open up the grayed out characters So you could be akuma and all the other better street fighter characters that were more advanced and like, uh, evil ryu or whatever but like i'm saying like, uh You know what i'm saying like like are people just not happy with the the choices on the table? Yeah, I guess man. I mean I think about simu, you know simu's characters shang chi You know, obviously very asian character written now. He's in a bunch of other movies, but not necessarily playing I don't think age being asian is the focus of his character in some of these other roles that he has Like are people gonna be okay with barbie? I don't think they talk about him being asian No, no and barbie he doesn't he he could have been he's just another ken so Is that is that how people would want is like you have an actor who played clearly an asian role jon chow He's herald and kumar. That's clearly asian But he's playing a stereotypical nerd asian but then jon chow can go off and play all these other roles that like It's non specific to being I think the one about losing his daughter Searching is not they don't it's not asian, but his daughter's asian So it's like it is like asian but it's he's not acting like an asian dad Is he or like what a typical asian dad is like? I guess he's very intense But he's intensely looking for zara. I would imagine a lot of asian dudes would be like that. Yeah, I don't know. I think that uh It's so hard and I don't think everybody's gonna be happy But I do think people need to really look at this I feel like when judging asian characters you need to look at it one way Whether you think they're acting more americanized and that means more white or they're acting more urban And that means they're acting more black or they're acting more asian which means they're acting fobby whatever that is just Scan them to see if they're an embarrassment if they're a good character at the baseline And then I think the culture and everything is second because if they're a bad character the culture almost doesn't matter It's gonna be a bad character.  So I'd rather have In a way like just a good Asian character that's not an embarrassment if that it's between those two right right right And then it's a matter of it's a cool asian character that you can relate to or you can't relate to because I always feel Like the samurai characters in uh, john wick. I can't even forget. I'm forgetting his name right now. Haruki The guy who plays uh, he's a japanese actor the japanese guy that's part of the table Yeah, you know what I mean or one of the assassins or whatever, you know And then I'm saying like that's pretty cool. But then it's almost like he's so foreign too because he's like a literal like right, right? I mean, I guess it's cool that we have cool foreign characters like we have like, uh Ken Watanabe and like some other cool donnie yen plays pretty cool in john wick Yeah, some of the korean actors are pretty cool too. So I I guess like I think it's cool that people from asia are being seen as cool in the west but then it's funny because Because they're from asia. It kind of leaves out asian americans So asian americans are wondering Hey, when are we gonna be get to be seen as cool and not corny? But actually a lot of asian americans are kind of corny to be honest. So yeah, because I think that The process that makes and I don't think it's like a lot but a pretty sizable amount. They like Try so hard to be Quote on quote white or try so hard to be black But then it does like doesn't work But then nobody has fully formed what it is to be asian and even to be asian It could vary for different groups or socioeconomic classes or education classes or different histories, you know It's easier to act like a samurai when you're actually from japan It is like when you're great great great when one of your ancestors was a samurai Anyways guys, let us know in the comments down below what you think about all this Who are some other good asian characters that you thought? Uh did a great job representing themselves. We're still very specifically asian Um, and yeah, let us know what you think like are a lot of asian Actors in their roles playing too white Can they just replace non asian characters with an asian face? Does that still count as representation? I still think so, but I'll say this I'll say this I think that a lot of people in the comments section and we're arguing a lot more than this norman lear study They were talking about entire assimilation priorities and game plans in this Being an asian face living in the west. So anyway, let you guys Let us know what you guys think of the comments section below until next time we to hop up boys. We out peace


What is going on everybody welcome back to my channel? I am officially off of my night shifts and back to everyday schedule Well sort of I'm having kind of a little bit of trouble adjusting But anyways, I'm going to bring you all along on this week because I have a few different things kind of going on So why don't we go ahead and get to it? All right, so first and foremost. Yes I survived those four weeks of call and that last seven days straight of nights It nearly killed me But I'm back and I officially start IR rotation today, which is pretty cool back to my Favorite thing to do and what I'm doing for a living So I'm happy to be back on interventional now with that being said I finished my morning shift of my seventh night straight yesterday, which was Sunday at 8 a.m. And I was gonna try to take like a little three-hour nap or so, but I just couldn't for the life of me So I ended up staying up got my haircut at like four o'clock and my poor hairstyle is Erica Like she couldn't even talk to me because I was basically like a zombie. But anyways, I Got my haircut yesterday stayed up till about 8 p.m. Where I just completely crashed and I slept until about 10 a.m. This morning. So I had a good 14 hours of sleep and luckily I have the best attendant in the world and she gave me this morning off Well, she sort of gave me this morning off. I said I was gonna try to come in but I wasn't making any promises because to get off of work at Sunday morning at 8 a.m. And then switch over to waking up at 5 a.m. The next morning is almost impossible Well, it's impossible for me So I ended up waking up at about 10 a.m.  Yes, I do. I feel absolutely terrible. But what can you do? This is the life we chose it But anyways, we have vein clinic today and that's where I'm doing right now So at the vein clinic, this is where we see all of the new patients and follow-ups from prior Venus procedures Because yes, I ours do vein procedures as well I think vascular surgeons and maybe sometimes some interventional cardiologists do it too So we'll be seeing a few vein follow-ups today and a few new vein patients And I will tell you obviously won't tell you about the patients that I see But I'll kind of tell you about the general cases we see After clinic so I just got back in the car after our two clinic appointments and yes We only had two clinical appointments this afternoon Which is fantastic because my brain is like working at 25% right now. I just feel So cloudy right now. I don't think I did handle like a full day of seeing patients But anyways, um, so we mostly handle more like varicose veins in this clinic So people come in for chronic varicose veins and for those of you who don't know what varicose veins are It is those dilated big veins that you see down the lower extremities or down the lower legs I know you've probably seen people with them walking around or may have seen patients with them as well They cause a whole host of problems from You know chronic swelling chronic kind of leg pain dullness Heaviness in your legs and swelling because those incompetent veins aren't allowing blood to be pumped back to the heart And everything kind of just pools in the lower extremities So they come to see us we assess them do ultrasound do a whole bunch of tests And sometimes we can treat those varicose veins by either ablating the main vein that they drain into Which is the greater saphenous vein. We basically access via ultrasound Stick a laser-guided wire up there and basically Burn or ablate the entire vein and also we can do something called a stab flevectomy So basically what we do is pre-operatively or pre procedurally we'll have the patient stand up We will look at the veins on their lower extremities Mark them with a marker and then bring them back to the procedure room We numb up the skin around that the markings we made make a small incision and we actually scoop out The vein and we try to pull it out and we kind of strip it So it's tight vein stripping or stab flevectomy is the technical term for it We just basically pull those veins out and strip them and basically kill those veins So the varicose and the varicose veins of the lower extremities are stripped out It sounds barbaric, but it's not as barbaric as that real name implies So these patients actually Do very well and they have very good things to say about it And they will love you after you do these procedures because It gets rid of all their chronic kind of pain that they have and it's basically like a cosmetic procedure too Because nobody wants those big Juicy serpigenous vessels down their legs. It's just not very fun for anybody So that's what we did today. I'm going home right now. I'm literally going to sit on the couch I'm not going to work out today. I'm still trying to recover from this terrible switching Night shift to day shift life. So we'll catch you back tomorrow. I'll be back on procedures in IR in the suites tomorrow. It's been about two months looking forward to it. See you in the morning And good morning. So it is about 5 30 a.m on tuesday morning Last night was a little tough. I hope you can see me. This is like the only light It's super dark in the morning now that the time has changed But um, so yeah, I I'm going through this whole process of switching over to day shifts again And I woke up at about 350 or 4 a.m Even though I went to bed at about 8 30 or no, it's about about 9 9 p.m I woke up about 3 45 350 I don't know why it's like this whole transitioning back to day thing Kills me for some reason. I'm at the main hospital today for IR I'm doing procedures all day today. So hopefully I can just start crushing coffee all day And and not be dead tired. So Finish work today. Hopefully I don't stay too late because I have to pick andrena at the airport again today Yes, again, she left to go on some interviews. So We'll be doing that later today. But all right. I have to go do some cases. So we'll check in a little bit and We are officially done with our first day back on IR Um, let's just say I'm still a little tired. I have not recovered from this night shift switch over to daytime like literally at all still just super foggy today did a whole mixture of G tubes ports liver biopsies What else I do today? Um, I forgot what else I did this morning. I did a dialysis graft detot a whole bunch of other stuff I literally can't remember right now because my mind is just not with it But anyways, I'm still wearing a new shrub shirt and my figs joggers because I was sweating like I went through like two shrubs shirts today because I was sweating so bad Our hospital is so hot for some reason. I think because it's like 70 degrees outside And our hospital was so hot But anyways, I'm about to show you something because you may remember this spot from our last video We happen to be in a similar scenario as in I'm at the airport of you and picking up Andriana and walking to the observation deck to watch the plane take off because I'm like 20 or 30 minutes early so Once Andriana lands we will go pick her up and Yeah, that's pretty much it Again another beautiful day at the observation deck Andriana right Let's get it an extreme close-up Of her landing She just texted me So you may be wondering why I'm back to the airport again and why Andriana is flying back Like three days after I just picked her up from the airport last time And the answer to that is She got a I think she got like three interviews So she got three interview offers this past weekend Which means she had about the last minute flight to new york on saturday She stayed there saturday sunday monday today is tuesday. She's coming back today So she went through all of her interviews In like two days multiple interviews per day in new york And now we're going to pick her up. So let's go do that right now Look at her. Look at her. Look at her This is what I have to deal with all right. So I've been a little absentee today And that's because I have been getting destroyed in the IRC all day, but that's good. It's good. It's good practice So i'm officially done now um I did a ton of different cases today Which is all great. I did some things that I haven't done in a while Which is also great. So we got here about 7 a.m. Rounded and I have literally been in procedures all day long bouncing from room to room for whatever comes up. So I was the only fellow on procedures today or fellow First day, that's what we're called But anyways did a whole bunch of procedures. It's about six o'clock now. I'm heading home. However I am on call tonight. So if anything happens overnight I will have to come into the hospital and you better believe I will film it Otherwise, I'm gonna go home right now take a shower That's my favorite thing to do And relax on my couch. I hope I don't get called in And if I do get called in I guess it's not the end of the world because At least I'll get a procedure To do overnight and usually they're pretty fun procedures like someone Is bleeding and we need to embolize or something along those lines and tomorrow. I'm actually going to one of our branch hospitals for the first time and My attending will be in cases all day and I'll be doing all of the Red and butter ir stuff in the meantime. So It's time to get some rest tonight and see you in the morning And good morning everybody. It is Thursday and I am at a different hospital campus today And it's actually like super beautiful Very high-end and new So today I'm doing all outpatient procedures probably crank out like eight ports Maybe some random stuff prosthetic artery embolization and whatever is on the schedule. So Let's get to it and we are officially done with this outpatient day So basically I cranked out like a million and a half ports Which is pretty cool You get pretty fast at doing them And I really like the people over here It's kind of like a small community hospital and everybody's like super thankful for you doing things for them Which makes it really nice And it's kind of a slower pace so you can actually have a conversation with the patients And you know talk with them a little bit and then you can see them after the procedure before they go home And they always thank you and it feels really good. So That was a lot of fun today Tomorrow is a little different as well. I think I'm doing a different thing every day this week So tomorrow I'm going to M&M in the morning and then I have ir clinic tomorrow morning and afternoon So I will be doing mostly life-seeing patients for Taste and tear workouts. So that's what I will be doing tomorrow and we will check in then And it is officially my fifth day and the week is coming to an end So on that note, make sure you like and subscribe Follow me on Instagram if you don't already, you know the drill turn on post notifications So you are notified when I post a new video, which is really about once more twice every week. See you all in the next video


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Yeah, I know it's early. I've actually been up since four o'clock. So I'm kind of half halfway through the day already So I'm so excited to be here. I've been wanting to speak at this event for quite a few years This is actually my first speaking gig in the US as well. I've been speaking a lot in Europe and other places But this is my first US slot so Hopefully you can understand my accent. Okay. I'm actually Norwegian But I've lived in the UK for nearly 18 years which make my accent sound like a drunk Irish person And so I'm gonna be talking about how to get big links But first I need to just tell you a story in January 2015 My agency weren't wasn't doing too well. So I run an SEO agency SEO only and and The results that we were managing to receive especially in terms of link building were rapidly decreasing in Fact we were kind of staring down the barrel The amount of time that it took to get one piece of coverage and the quality of that coverage was reducing So I had a choice to make I could continue along the same way and hope for the best Or I could take a risk and restructure. I Think one of the big problems was that By then there had been so many algorithm changes particularly to do with link quality and The type of content that was coming out because by this time everyone was trying to do content marketing which I Think 80% of the time meant writing articles or very static infographics and such It was so much of that content out there. That's standing out became really quite difficult So I realized that if I continued creating one piece of content in the hope of getting one link That link would have to be really really good So I restructured the agency and The way the agency now looks is more like a creative agency So we have designers developers researchers copywriters Creatives and tech SEO But the biggest part is the outreach team So basically what I did was restructure in this way because I really believed that to survive We had to start thinking like 50s addicts and executing like geeks We have launched 12 and 66 campaigns in the last 12 months That's a lot of campaigns over several markets But of those 66 campaigns We came up with 350 ideas. In fact way over that What does that say about us? We're really good at coming up with street ideas. Oh Let me give you some examples So have you ever thought it would be really cool if you could print your tweets on a toast a toaster Yeah, that's not really great or it gets worse Have you ever thought how cool would it be or handy? Would it be if you could order a condom with your pizza? I really fear that this was one of my ideas as well The point is you have to come up with a lot of shit ideas in order to come up with great ideas And it's pretty much about not being afraid to fail I know it's a loss of pressure of being original coming up with content and when we think about creatives we think about people like Picasso or Edison or Steven Jobs, maybe and we don't really see ourselves like that and Then we panic and it kind of becomes a 404 of creativity not found The problem is that we don't really need to be thinking we need to be creative or a creative I think it's about being innovative and To me being innovative is simply to take something and make it better so When aliens was pitched into the Hollywood studios, it was actually pitched in as Jaws in space And if you think about it Grubhub is kind of like Uber for food Find something that nearly worked and make it better So in 1982 a Austrian named mind this name Deity's Master Shits That is definitely not how you pronounce it He visits Thailand and he came across a energy drink that was marketed to to truckers Really low-cost energy drink and as you can see he didn't really even bother changing the logo. This is now Red Bull One of the most successful drink stories, I think of the time So in 2013 business inside it this piece a call This piece about hundred deadliest films by on-screen deaths. This was definitely a data geek geeking out And it was an interesting piece, but it looked pretty terrible, right? And it shows you Basically the hundred top movies with and then according to how many on-screen deaths it was So we took this piece and realized we could make it better Visually, but also from the data point of view So we created what became directors cut, which is basically an updated version of this campaign Which you know, you'd be amazed at how much data you can find accessible. There was an entire forum Dedicated to counting on-screen deaths Amazing and so this is what I look like Very importantly the top movie was quite a big surprise guardian of the galaxy a PG-13 Was the deadliest movie of all time So I must admit that this campaign surprised me how well it did the first paper to pick it up Was the Guardian so the Guardian in the UK is one of the most respected newspapers and as soon as the Guardian covered it We had a tweet from James Gunn Which is the director of Guardians of the Galaxy going yay deadliest movie Not only did he tweet up He spent two hours Replying to tweet saying no, I think you will find this is correct data Because I bet you a few of you are now thinking surely Star Wars blowing up planets were more deaths This is the point of it if the results is surprising It's it creates discussion and creating discussion is the surefire thing of managing to get the coverage This got over 700 links and of the biggest majority of these links are seriously high authority Yahoo the Guardian enemy CBS It just got loads and loads and That's not the only thing you got. I think it's important to try to concentrate on getting coverage That also deserves more than just the link This became a Twitter moment shared over 48,000 times in 48 hours Social might not be an impact on rankings by sure as hell helps you get links Another campaign we did which was based on something that already exists is the Forbes billionaires list, which I'm sure You all would have seen at some point This is a list that's released every year by Forbes and it has several decades of data the interesting thing is that They have this list and they have like you can go back to the older versions But there's no way of seeing all of this data in one So we created the billionaires league where we could where we got all the data from Forbes But also added other additional research pieces more light-hearted angles and this basically allows you to To to go out and do outreach for loads of different angles like has the average age of billionaires gone up or down They also had had several people. Sorry. It also had female billionaires included in it and This got nine to seven links and over 850,000 views if your coverage can get that amount of views It is very unlikely that's going to be deemed as dodgy in any way from Google's point of view I had a bit of an order issue with a slide. Sorry. I Also would really recommend that you over invest in building formats that can be used again and Again going to be going back to movies for inspiration here Finding Nemo When they created that they had to create a new ray tracing technology to model the light dappling through the water That took an an extortionate amount of time for Pixar But this is something that Pixar is known for doing they've got something called a Pixar render man Which is basically a library of technology that once they've created this technology They can use it for the next movie and the next movie Obviously our head of production is not too pleased about this because sometimes it takes an awful lot of time To add a piece of new technology or or spend extra time in a campaign But this year We launched this campaign, which is the e-sports champions looking at all different data points about the e-sports industry And as you can see it's pretty much billionaire's league for e-sports So putting in that extra time on billionaire's league helped us create another campaign quite quickly This looks as things like top-earning women in the industry How much price money it literally have like at least 40 different entry points of data that you can look into the e-sports And it's like I think this is just a super interesting Kind of industry to look into and it's so hot and it's already had 198 Links and that is a quite recent campaign as well and 190,000 views picked up MSN business inside of Mashable. This campaign was done pan Nordic so all the Nordic countries Norway, Sweden Denmark Finland And he got a lot of coverage also in those countries, which is very very challenging because there are a lot of laws around Gambling sites and stuff and this was for a gambling client Another idea that's worked really well for us is and we quite like collaborating and again this takes a lot of time the first time around and In Sweden for Expedia, we worked with a castle called Malmö who's lot and where we created a Google Street view tour and of the castle with audio visual as well and Information about each area in the castle Now to be able to do this We had to create a new software that helps doing a street view over several floors It took us a lot of time We then allowed us to look at other venues that we could do similar things with this had 86 Links and 25,000 views obviously this is the in Sweden So Swedish market is a lot smaller in terms of the amount of sites and stuff And for Expedia being a travel company getting this is Sweden and the very specific travel related sites is very big So this year we launched the the prison which is basically a museum of a prison in Near Copenhagen in Denmark where we use the exact same technology again And we're able to create street view in this this prison This is a very recent campaign. It's already got 83 links and as you see again There's a lot of very travel related sites there like literally every tourist board local as well as the Danish tourist board the main one covered this piece So I'm not saying that that means the developers can then just chill out. You have to continuously work at this But it's not always a Data piece or programming where you need to invest in sometimes they can be really plain and really simple We launched this end of last year for Expedia in the UK, and it's a very simple a graphic campaign And it's a kind of travel posters created in a vintage style Including extinct animals from around the world like they were still alive so the dodo in Mauritius and the the Moa New Zealand and so on these are very very pretty But they also for a very good course way and this did amazingly well it got over 223 links including again some of the biggest sites out there This got a lot of us coverage as well this also picks up loads of social shares from all of those sites that featured her and It got covered in the observer on Sunday Observer is the second biggest Sunday newspaper in the UK So getting print coverage with your SEO campaign I think isn't the standard, but if it's good enough to be in the paper again, it is going to reduce the risk Going forward One of my favorite things about this campaign is that it was even made into a fan a fan made mod for the sims game So you can actually see the poster in the game There's some serious education. It must have really spoken to someone to take that time and I love that People started calling our office wanting to buy the posters and Lastly and most impressively I think is someone started petition thanking the managing director of Expedia UK for commissioning this work When was the last time you saw a petition where someone was thanking someone? It's crazy The main thing with this though is that doing creative campaigns for SEO to get links it's not good enough that you get one campaign and That does well you have to consistently get the coverage and When you get the consistent coverage That's when you get the results Because that is what you want to know, right? You're like, yeah, this is cool, but does it actually does it actually work? So we've worked with Expedia for four years and we only work with Expedia in Europe Just want to make that clear and In the last 12 months, we've had 46 percent increase in organic visibility for the Nordic countries So that's Norway Sweden Denmark and Finland and Expedia Sweden having the smallest that's 16 percent increase in organic visibility To put into the context Expedia Sweden has a higher visibility than IKEA in Sweden So getting any increase is pretty awesome Another client that we just started working with Lens Store, which is basically contact lenses online We've launched two campaigns and four months of outreach so far and the main hero term of contact lenses have already gone from position 11 to position 3 So it does definitely work so Being SEO's we really want to know how can we analyze this hit so that we can do exactly the same I could tell you that we have figured out a way of Analyzing what type of campaigns work best So we did that This is the last six months worth of campaigns Divided into different types like data games with data capture visual street view video and so on But before you go down thinking I'm gonna I'm gonna take a photo of this and I'm just gonna start doing data campaigns because they work best I Would like to tell you a story about some chickens I Thought that would get love. It's chickens. That's weird. Okay, so there was a study made at University of Texas at Austin and it is it is quite a funny study because the They had lots of participants to look at these pictures of a plump attractive chicken. I've never said that plump attractive chicken versus an unattractive chicken and skinny and Then this told the participants that the plump one was a natural chicken and the skinny one was the engineered chicken They then divided them in two groups and told group one that the natural chicken is healthy But not that tasty and the engineered chicken is tasty, but not the healthy Guess what the other group they told the opposite to What's interesting about the the findings of this study is that both groups preferred the natural chicken But neither group justified their choice based on how they felt In fact, what they did is that they used the opposite reason to justify the same decision We don't actually make these decisions based on these details. We make it how we feel That is the point This is called post-hoc rationalization and as marketers we do this all the time and I can hear myself doing it and I'm like, oh man. I'm doing this again The point is formats are just the vessel of the idea The creative is what connects with people. It's not whether it was a data piece Like if we do this if we if we kind of do all this data We could actually lose out on campaigns that do really well Just because we're trying to make something into a specific format. I'm just gonna get some water So, oh my god, it's not just you around I can't open it Okay, talk amongst yourselves, so But you know the creative Doesn't have much place If you don't do the outreach even the best campaign ever Won't get any coverage if you don't tell people about it So this is what I think we are the most well-known for in the UK is doing the outreach In fact at the verb in the verb team the outreach team is the biggest We have two TechSios. We're really good at TechSio But outreach is the really really big team because this is where most of the work is done This is where you get the results I'm going to tell you about what outreach is not about before I tell you what it is about So I get asked this a lot This is the first question people ask me when they know that we are doing really well in outreach In fact, Rand insisted that I needed to still include this slide So we use the same tools that most people use Gokana and Meltwater are both tools that you can find the contact for the journalist And and I think Gokana is amazing But in some of the more obscure countries Meltwater is a lot better And we use Bustream because it's awesome and he helps us make sure that we keep on track on it with everything And we use Basumo quite a lot for finding inspiration for campaigns or looking at content while it's already there But these are just tools you can't build a house by just holding a hammer and building These are just tools The second what I would like to say is that there is no optimum way of writing and outreach emails. I Get this a lot as well surely it's just to keep your outreach email short and snappy with really terrible jokes I'm going to show you an example. So James who I call JC because I have a tendency to hire a lot of people called James He's one of our most amazing outreach people now his style is quite interesting. So this is his outreach email to To people for the billionaire's league So he starts off obviously he's bolded a few things and stuff and you think oh, this looks quite long This is the next bit and the next bit and the next bit and That's it What there? That's like an essay right? Surely this doesn't work. This is like the look when I saw this outreach email I was like there is no way anyone's going to get back to you There's gone straight in the junk mail This is the reply from journalists at the mirror You got my attention with this brilliant release Wish all PRs send something like this. I've CC the money team because I think it might be something in there for them This is the coverage. This is the mirror one of the biggest papers in the UK It's not about how many emails that you send either Unfortunately, there's no pattern in that JC again see now. I'm not even calling him James. It's just JC This is an example of a month where JC sent Over 1,000 emails and it got 20 pieces of coverage Now this is Iris who sent 267 emails and got 23 pieces of content 23 links now Basically, they have totally different strategies of getting this exact same result which I think is Super interesting and I would like you to really think about that So going back to that year of January 2015 There was something very significant that also did in that year and That was the realization That outreach Is about people It's about the mindset that these people have and I wholeheartedly believe That outreach is about grit It's about passion and perseverance especially perseverance because if you want to be an outreach and if you want to get those links you cannot give up in March last year I into you this guy Alex and Alex had a CV that read pretty much like hundreds of other people wanting to get into this industry He'd been to University then done a year doing some writing Worked for a couple of newspapers and so on But as I was into him I realized that the thing that really lit him up was when I talked about his interest and he turns out There was a story there that he didn't even have on his CV and that was that Alex being a very very quite posh Schoolboy went to this school, which is a quite a well known school. It looks like Harry Potter school surely He is extremely passionate about American football like super passionate by American football in fact He was so frustrated that there were no literature about American football in the UK So when he was in a university, he decided to write his own book about American football He did this while he was at university set off time every day to write and at the end he didn't just leave it He went to publisher and said I want you to publish this book He even bypassed the agent which is like for anyone that work that knows anyone that's tried to publish anything That's like completely unheard of. He was super crooked. Just went like I'm just gonna go straight to the publisher And his book is sold at Amazon and in the news in bookstores in the UK Now that is great if I just looked at a CV and Judge him by his CV. I would have completely missed The talent because it's how they think That really changes how well they do so What I then changed is the way that I was asking questions to find these people so instead of asking the standard CV questions I started researching loads of different questions that would help me think help me figure out how they are thinking about things What they're likely to give up So there's a few ones that I use regularly and I'm going to share with you one of them is actually I read originals by Adam Grant who I love and and in his book There was Mention of a study where they tried to figure out what would make someone stay in a job and also perform in a job So they asked them like loads and loads of questions We're very frustrating. Although it had like 35,000 people that they asked they couldn't find any Correlation between like, you know the obvious things that you would think like a education Job hopping or anything like that The one thing that showed correlation was a question that they just added at the end, which was what browser do you use and He turns out the people that used Firefox or Chrome were like 17 percent more likely to stay in the job and Also perform better The reason for that is that if you use Chrome or Firefox you have not accepted the default on your computer You have gone out of your way to find something better and That is the measurement of grits that you can use Another question is pretty random, but trust me this one is also very useful. So you look at this picture It's a London on a ground on the platform. It's an elephant What would you do if you saw this elephant? So the interesting thing about this question is that you will immediately have thoughts The kind of like thinking that you will have is Interesting to me. So basically it's kind of divides into two very specific forks Like one big group and pretty much everyone in the outreach and creative team has answered I would take a picture of picture of a sit on a fly it because they think that's obviously true And Instagram a Facebook it and all those kind of things while the other group and pretty much all the tech SEOs developers Wait straight into risk assessment and oh hang on. How did it get there? We're gonna do about it Oh, I need to call the zoo one guy even went so far as saying hang on It's the truth that elephants are scared of mice and they lose some mice on the underground That's seriously kind of analytical The point of these kind of questions is not that they're right or wrong But it's a way of figuring out how people think and what I really want is people that can stretch people That have maybe already stretched themselves or have been stretched sometimes you stretch by Experiences and therefore you are you are more likely to be able to persevere because you have already been through stuff Or like Alex you made yourself go through something because you really wanted it and then when you have these people and I Know lose of you. We already have this grip the most important thing of getting successful outreach Is to encourage people to be more of who they are? Not to be someone else There's no one shape and no one way of doing things and we are really missing out on a lot of things when we are We are I think the world is so pro And extroverts It's like whoever shouts the loudest get heard but some of the best creative that's been created At verb has been by the quietest voice in the room and as managers as leaders as co-workers We need to really open up to listen differently depending on who we talk to one of our most successful campaigns to date and Idioms of the world and the campaign I shared with the vintage poster was created by a guy at work called Matt Who is really shy and really quiet? But when he comes to me and say I really want to do this. It's like someone else shouting it That's what I mean with listen differently And if you can encourage people to know that it's okay Whoever they are and that they can find their own way of doing it. That's what you really say see results That is really just our secret It is letting people find their own way of writing those emails We give them all the same tools, but everyone has their own way of doing it Some send loads of emails some said very few emails and they research everything They're just very very different We basically just need to find our own way and I cannot stress just how much of an impact This will make I'm just going to share one more story. So it's this paradox called the monkey ladder and paradox Which had five monkeys in a room and a ladder and some bananas on top of the ladder Every time a monkey tried to go and get the bananas the scientists will spray them with water and They would do this repeatedly until they stop going to the bananas Then they would change one monkey with a completely new monkey and As a new monkey went straight for the bananas the other monkeys tore it down It started beating it up because they didn't want to be sprayed with water Then they changed another monkey and now this is the interesting thing What happened was that the monkey that just been replaced just before who had never been sprayed with water Then help the others tear down the monkey and beat it up Eventually they had five new monkeys that had never been sprayed with water and they went nowhere near the bananas You are not a monkey You do not need to take on any of these beliefs. I think this is the the biggest Secret to most people's success is that it doesn't matter if everyone in here say that I can't do this If I think I can I will and if you can teach people how to do that and how to believe in themselves They will get the results The key to outreach is basically perseverance and being more of who you are whether you are Extrovert or introvert whether you take a long time doing or or you are very quick Basically as SEOs and content marketers. We need to be professional labyrinth walkers when we come to a dead end We find another way and That's how I managed to get from this To this Thank you