Kinecity

Kinecity was founded in 2004 by Marek Walczak and Jakub Segen to create interactive architecture. They use camera based recognition systems to identify underlying patterns of activity, which can be translated into an active architecture. to activate facades, tunnels and interiors. Their first project is for 7 World Trade Center.

Marek Walczak
Artist and architect who is interested in how people participate in physical and virtual spaces. He was trained as an architect at the Architectural Assoc. in London and Cooper Union in New York.

Jakub Segen
Conducts independent research and consults in the area of computer vision, imaging and human-computer interfaces. He holds a doctorate in Electrical and Bio-engineering from the Carnegie-Mellon University. Segen spent 21 years at Bell Laboratories Research, where he led research and development in computer vision and its applications to human-computer interfaces. His recent contributions involve real-time recognition of hand gestures, gesture controlled animated humans and video-based analysis of human motion. His research contributions also include the fields of computer graphics, pattern recognition, machine learning, artificial intelligence, robotics, image compression, signal analysis, information theory, and bio-engineering.