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  1. Re:Cool, but probably still has a ways to go. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Erasing Objects From Video In Real Time

    I'd bet they used this, which is an OpenCV builtin. There are other methods for image inpainting giving better results on textured backgrounds, e.g. exemplar-based image-inpainting, albeit being way too slow for realtime video.

  2. Re:Microsoft already did this by Foresto · · Score: 2, Informative · on Hitachi Does Microsoft Surface Without the Table

    Are you sure the whole tech was started off by Microsoft? I saw at least one project using this sort of tech before I had ever heard of Surface.

    http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable/
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReacTable

  3. Re:Amen by Damarkus13 · · Score: 1 · on Google and Microsoft Help To Defend Fair Use
    Since 15khz is ear-piercing, I really hope most artists avoid using sounds in the 15khz-20khz range.

    In fact, here http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php ?id=18266 is a sample of a 14-15khz wave. Do you really care what wave form that kind of sound is?

  4. Re:It's all about marketing by Red+Leader. · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft's Multitouch Coffee Table Display

    Here are some even better links. MIT's SenseTable was presented at CHI 2001. http://tangible.media.mit.edu/projects/sensetable/

    Here's a good MIT thesis on RFID tables: http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~mazalek/publications/ mazalek_phd-thesis.pdf

    There's more than just Audiopad, look at all these audio-related tables: http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable/?related

  5. Re:Similar tech - the reactable by teslar · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft's Multitouch Coffee Table Display

    Some more similar tech, albeit applied in a very different domain: The Reactable, basically a glorified synthesizer developed at the UPF in Barcelona, but very cool indeed. It also has a homepage and is used for instance by Björk.

  6. Reactable by the+grace+of+R'hllor · · Score: 2, Informative · on Microsoft's Multitouch Coffee Table Display

    You seem to be thinking of Reactable. The main difference is that Reactable uses a camera and fiducial symbols. Reactable is really a great and low-cost system, which works fairly well (just sketching one of the symbols with marker got it recognizable). They've segregated the optical processing and the application layer very well from what I could tell, which should lead to clean and easy apps.

    MS appears to be using a combination, as the guy showed some optical symbols on the bottom of objects as well.

  7. I've seen this before... by KevDude · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft's Multitouch Coffee Table Display

    Sounds like the Reactable synthesizer. Cool demo video here. The original looks way more fun than checking into a hotel too...

  8. Freesound by lonemonk · · Score: 1 · on Sounds Bring Google Earth to Life

    The creative commons site Freesound also tags sound to map locations, but it does so with Google Maps, not Earth. Here is a link from near my home:

    http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/geotagsView.php?lon=- 123.759596943855&lat=48.3681998651109&zoom=16

  9. Clam project by Ferante125 · · Score: 1 · on Linux as A Musician's OS?

    I'd like to post a link for the CLAM project, which is an open source (GPL) C++ framework for processing audio. It has nice visualizations that show the chord and key being played. It seems to support all the jack/ladspa connectivity and it has a rapid development tool for connecting networks of audio analysis/synthesis processing nodes (the gui is implemented with qt). It's currently being supported by google summer of code. Here's the link:http://clam.iua.upf.edu/ . I'm affiliated with the clam project so I might be biased, but since I didn't see it mentioned here, I thought I'd add it in case it strikes anyones interest. --why procrastinate today what you can procrastinate tomorrow?

  10. FOAFING THE MUSIC: another music recommender by ocelma · · Score: 1 · on Music Recommendation Engines Compared

    There is still one more music recommender system left, named FOAFING THE MUSIC. And, if you have a last.fm account, it can import all the info from there! I bet you'll discover a bunch of new artists (even coming from magnatune.com, garageband.com, cdbaby.com and lots of more cool music sites!). Enjoy!

  11. Re:Never happened... by shenanigans · · Score: 1 · on How to Avoid Mobile Phone Interference w/ Speakers

    Here's an example of what it sounds like, if you've never heard it:

    http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php ?id=9220

  12. FOAFING THE MUSIC:: another music recommender by ocelma · · Score: 1 · on Comparison of Pandora and Last.fm
    http://foafing-the-music.iua.upf.edu

    Here's another music recommender, named Foafing the Music. Its based on user listening habits (tracked from Audioscrobbler/last.fm) and user profiling (from the user's FOAF profile -e.g LiveJournal, Tribe.net, my.opera.com, or directly from a user account in www.blogger.com).

    Although its still more focused on the research, it has a lot of interesting stuff in it, for instance the system recommends to the user:

    • similar artists to the ones she like
    • new music releases from iTunes, Amazon, Yahoo, etc.
    • MP3-blogs to download music
    • Podcast sessions to stream/download
    • Automatic creation of playlists based on (only!) audio similarity
    • Incoming concerts near to where the user lives!

    Cheers, Oscar.

  13. My contact address is wrong... by bdejong · · Score: 1 · on Freesound Reaches 10,000 Files

    Ugh, someone borked my contact address.
    It's: http://www.iua.upf.edu/mtg/pages/contact/single?id =17