Maybe a path of logic would be to know what turns a handwriter would NOT take...
And that is a real problem. Topological approach have limited usefulness - similar turns could make different letters. Statistical approaches like baesian networks , ANN can help here, but even human brain often have problems with finding pattern in the handwriting...
Theoretically camera can be used for camera-games, or "augmented reality" games. However if DSi use the same 67Mhz+33Mhz CPUs it would be highly difficult to squeeze non-trivial markerless or multimarker tracking into device. Simple ARToolkit-stile tracking still possible though even with those CPUs.
Uhm, you don't need special lenses for 1d barcode scanning. Algorithm for perspective rectangle registration is efficient and robust. All you have to do is move phone close to barcode and move it along. If barcode is "far" - like > 50 cm scanning is unreliable, but if you move it closer bar code would be read with high accuracy, and you can scan it twice or trice to be sure you get it right. In fact I've written such an algorithm myself some times ago and it work on the nokia 6600 - about the same hardware as Nokia 3650. Complex picture scanning is around 100-150 ms on the old Nokia 6600. Heh, check my sig and see for yourself.
As an aside, that's a very cool link in your sig. I had the idea of doing something like that just five hours ago. I never told anyone about it, and I never wrote it down. Your spies clearly work with great efficiency and speed.:)
Porting to N95(Symbian 9.2) right now:) Probably will take couple of weeks more. After that - either to markeless outdoor tracking, or iPhone port, havn't decided yet.
I'm pondering idea of switching my augmented reality app to iPhone from Symbian. What kind of investment should I do ? Is MacBook + iPhone enough ? Are there a good free IDE for Objective-C ? Or IDE is part of SDK ? SDK (development programm) itself is only 99$, correct ?
I'd consider Nokia to be the traditional leader in usability, making snappy, easy to use and feature rich smart phones of high build quality. </blockquote> <br> What ??? Nokia is leader in usability for smartphones ? Nokia can make highly usable feature-rich dumb-phones, or sometimes (not always) good hardware design for smartphones, but usability of Nokia smartphones is terrible. To do any action you have to press several options from drop-down menus. Most useful function, like log etc. hidden deep in the menus holes, shortcuts are not really shortcuts, but another many-level menus. Also Nokia seems often employ professional torturer for designing buttons placement. My latest N95-2 have buttons which are barely usable (old Nokia 6600 a lot better), even though phone itself feature-rich, look nice, and camera is great. If I wouldn't made mistake going into symbian development some times ago I wouldn't touch Nokia smartphone with long pole.
Well, I worked with numerical simulation of liquids (not water, melted semiconductors), so I had some exposition to different numerical methods of FD. There is a lot of different numerical methods, so while equations well established, numerical methods for their solutions no way are. There are multiresolution methods, methods numerically conserving different quantities, like different combination of energy, momentum, entropy etc., adaptive meshes, methods with different tricks to fight numerical instability - a whole huge zoo, which is growing all the time. Efficient method for specific simulation can increase precision or/and stability on the orders of magnitude with the same cell size and about the same computation load.
For specific device at least ? Or it's Android SDK Java only still ? Android will have hard time competing with iPhone application-wise without native code support.
And I can assure you that dog poop is quite a problem here. There is a lot of small children on the outside and dog poop is more immediate danger to them than occasional suicidal bomber.
And infrastructure do. In fact big food handouts could kill national agriculture, fragile as it is, and make people worse off in between handouts.
Of cause broadband will create some potential for outsourcing. That is a legitimate complain, but don't have the moral high ground to invoke.
They had a single camera set up and then proceeded to light the outside of the building, from different angles, repeatedly. They did this for quite some time.
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this was 20+ years ago, so I doubt they were doing digital photography
They could have been making a panoramichigh dynamic range image.
From the wiki:"Probably the first practical application of HDRI was by the movie industry in late 1980s and, in 1985"
With all OpenGL extensions supported working properly, to latest and greatest from NVIDIA where I can never be sure which extension work on which driver with which card.
On the practice level where you can kick some ass with Kung-Fu you will have regular bruises, occasional joint dislocation and some probability of concussion. That's ok while you are under 30, but could be quite hurtful as you are becoming older. And not helping productivity either.
For science- and tech-related wiki it has surprisingly poor science and tech content.
Category theory - one of the most promising branch of modern mathematics - no article in Scholarpedia
Quantum field theory should I explain how important it is? - no article in Scholarpedia.
Homo florensis - One of the most fascinating discovery of modern paleoanthropology - no article in Scholarpedia.
Ok, may be it's better with tech ? Let's check the area where I have some experience - computer vision:
Feature detection - one of the basis of computer vision - no article in Scholarpedia
SIFT - no article in Scholarpedia
OK' that's enough.
Right now Scholarpedia is pretty much useless, and I don't see the reason why it should become better.
Privacy is NOT the product of your life. It is not a natural right, like you being entitled to the fruits of your labor is.
Neither entitlement to the fruits of your labor is the natural right. Neither is your freedom or right to live. In fact if understand "natural rights" in the classical sense as "universal right inherent in the nature of living beings" there is only one natural right - right of the strong to do as he want with weak. That is why there is no much sense in the concept of "natural right"
Startups promise chance of instant wealth and position, without slow climbing bureaucratic ladder. Scientist are not interested in material gain are better provided for by universities or corporate research centers. No need of humiliating security checks, freedom of publishing, travels and associations.
2006 interview with Putin revealed that Gian War Robots is one of the most pressing issues of Russian internal policy. What is USACEWP response to Giant Russian Robots ? Could be that US heading to the new Sputnik debacle ? Ah, and can you confirm or deny that USACEWP is staffed by Cthulhu cultists ?
Second important thing is to start working and build your credibility, which could come from working somewhere either voluntarily or accepting job that was not your profession in Australia.
Wow, that sounds really unattractive. Canada have overabundance of IT workers ?
Here in Israel a dog can work as programmer if he/she could prove he have some coding skill and have work permit. Don't have to know Hebrew either, if English is fluent enough. Of cause the pay is about half of that in US and the summer is really hot. Oh, and security checkpoints in the supermarkets.
Slashdot Mirror
Expect global warming rate to accelerate.
Start from assembler.
Mwa ha ha ha ha!
That is easy enough. Edge detection and morphological thinning can do the job.
And that is a real problem. Topological approach have limited usefulness - similar turns could make different letters. Statistical approaches like baesian networks , ANN can help here, but even human brain often have problems with finding pattern in the handwriting...
Theoretically camera can be used for camera-games, or "augmented reality" games. However if DSi use the same 67Mhz+33Mhz CPUs it would be highly difficult to squeeze non-trivial markerless or multimarker tracking into device. Simple ARToolkit-stile tracking still possible though even with those CPUs.
Uhm, you don't need special lenses for 1d barcode scanning. Algorithm for perspective rectangle registration is efficient and robust.
All you have to do is move phone close to barcode and move it along. If barcode is "far" - like > 50 cm scanning is unreliable, but if you move it closer bar code would be read with high accuracy, and you can scan it twice or trice to be sure you get it right. In fact I've written such an algorithm myself some times ago and it work on the nokia 6600 - about the same hardware as Nokia 3650. Complex picture scanning is around 100-150 ms on the old Nokia 6600. Heh, check my sig and see for yourself.
Porting to N95(Symbian 9.2) right now :) Probably will take couple of weeks more. After that - either to markeless outdoor tracking, or iPhone port, havn't decided yet.
I'm pondering idea of switching my augmented reality app to iPhone from Symbian. What kind of investment should I do ?
Is MacBook + iPhone enough ? Are there a good free IDE for Objective-C ? Or IDE is part of SDK ? SDK (development programm) itself is only 99$, correct ?
Well, I worked with numerical simulation of liquids (not water, melted semiconductors), so I had some exposition to different numerical methods of FD. There is a lot of different numerical methods, so while equations well established, numerical methods for their solutions no way are. There are multiresolution methods, methods numerically conserving different quantities, like different combination of energy, momentum, entropy etc., adaptive meshes, methods with different tricks to fight numerical instability - a whole huge zoo, which is growing all the time. Efficient method for specific simulation can increase precision or/and stability on the orders of magnitude with the same cell size and about the same computation load.
For specific device at least ? Or it's Android SDK Java only still ? Android will have hard time competing with iPhone application-wise without native code support.
And I can assure you that dog poop is quite a problem here. There is a lot of small children on the outside and dog poop is more immediate danger to them than occasional suicidal bomber.
And infrastructure do. In fact big food handouts could kill national agriculture, fragile as it is, and make people worse off in between handouts. Of cause broadband will create some potential for outsourcing. That is a legitimate complain, but don't have the moral high ground to invoke.
They could have been making a panoramic high dynamic range image. From the wiki:"Probably the first practical application of HDRI was by the movie industry in late 1980s and, in 1985"
With all OpenGL extensions supported working properly, to latest and greatest from NVIDIA where I can never be sure which extension work on which driver with which card.
On the practice level where you can kick some ass with Kung-Fu you will have regular bruises, occasional joint dislocation and some probability of concussion. That's ok while you are under 30, but could be quite hurtful as you are becoming older. And not helping productivity either.
Ironically, search
http://www.cuil.com/search?q=cuil.com
doesn't return cuil.com
For science- and tech-related wiki it has surprisingly poor science and tech content.
Category theory - one of the most promising branch of modern mathematics - no article in Scholarpedia
Quantum field theory should I explain how important it is? - no article in Scholarpedia.
Homo florensis - One of the most fascinating discovery of modern paleoanthropology - no article in Scholarpedia.
Ok, may be it's better with tech ? Let's check the area where I have some experience - computer vision:
Feature detection - one of the basis of computer vision - no article in Scholarpedia
SIFT - no article in Scholarpedia
OK' that's enough.
Right now Scholarpedia is pretty much useless, and I don't see the reason why it should become better.
which means that you lived in the hole in the mandelbrot fractal
Goedel would probably think it's an intricate conspiracy to kill him.
Neither entitlement to the fruits of your labor is the natural right. Neither is your freedom or right to live. In fact if understand "natural rights" in the classical sense as "universal right inherent in the nature of living beings" there is only one natural right - right of the strong to do as he want with weak. That is why there is no much sense in the concept of "natural right"
Windows Movie Maker 2.6 description at microsoft.com:
Movie Maker 2.6 is for Windows Vista users whose computer cannot run the Vista version of Movie Maker.
Pointed in the comments to TFA.
Startups promise chance of instant wealth and position, without slow climbing bureaucratic ladder. Scientist are not interested in material gain are better provided for by universities or corporate research centers. No need of humiliating security checks, freedom of publishing, travels and associations.
2006 interview with Putin revealed that Gian War Robots is one of the most pressing issues of Russian internal policy. What is USACEWP response to Giant Russian Robots ? Could be that US heading to the new Sputnik debacle ? Ah, and can you confirm or deny that USACEWP is staffed by Cthulhu cultists ?
Wow, that sounds really unattractive. Canada have overabundance of IT workers ?
Here in Israel a dog can work as programmer if he/she could prove he have some coding skill and have work permit. Don't have to know Hebrew either, if English is fluent enough. Of cause the pay is about half of that in US and the summer is really hot. Oh, and security checkpoints in the supermarkets.
Am I only one who read it as "Planned startup fail is in the 2009" ?