The user is presented with links that promise access to 'interesting' pages with explicit pornographic content, copyrighted software or media.
In other words, the people who have their computers hacked are those looking for trouble in the first place (although I have to admit that I don't consider porn trouble but I bet most of these problematic sites are serving copyrighted material anyways.)
I guess you get what you pay for!
Very interesting post and I agree with you that we should not forget our past. But there is a difference between us and our family and closest friends knowning of our past actions and the general public having access to all this information. There are people in the general public that will not hesitate to use this information to harm you and/or your family. People are already getting burned because of some photos that they published on MySpace or a video of themselves on YouTube.
Navigation is one of the biggest challenges faced by mobile robots. One popular technique, dubbed SLAM (simultaneous localisation and mapping), involves having a robot build a map of the local area, whilst also tracking its position
SLAM is a problem not a technique for navigation. Navigation involves more than just doing SLAM because you also have to do things like obstacle avoidance.
Actually, face recognition can be stated mathematically. It is about finding a function that maps an image's pixel values to a boolean value, i.e., true if the particular person is present in the image and false if otherwise. You can extend this to more than one person. In fact, the computer vision problems that you describe can all be stated mathematically.
The "hacks" that you talk about are the heuristics that we have in our algorithms that search over the space of all possible functions to find the one that solves our problem. These heuristics simply encode our knowledge of the information that a face recognition algorithm should use. If you have enough data and a robust machine learning algorithm, the computer could learn these heuristics. Unfortunately, we don't have such algorithms yet.
In the computer vision community, nobody claims that face recognition is a solved problem. However, we have developed some good algorithms that work well for certain tasks.
Cheers!
Since Microsoft's main market is the average computer user, i.e., desktop sales of their OS, am I correct to conclude that said people don't read Business 2.0 and hence his call to boycott Vista will go unheard?
Eventually, it will get you a much better search engine. Unless of course you are satisfied with the current state of Google's (and others) image search functionality. I am not, so I will spend a few minutes every now and then to tag a few images.
Cheers!
WowWee and Evolution robotics announced a partnership last March which will probably get Evolution's object recognition technology onboard the Robosapien. This is the same technology that the AIBO used to recognize its special command cards. WowWee might have to upgrade Robosapien's processor for this because the image processing for the object recognition is expensive to do. However, I see that Evolution has an optimized version of the software for mobile phones so that might help a lot. Expect the next Robosapien version to be more capable but also a bit more expensive.
"Haven't emulators exploded in popularity (not to mention promised classic gaming on newer consoles) because people DO want to re-play these games?"
A publisher needs the correct answer not to the question as to whether people want to play old games, but rather whether people are willing to pay $50 for an old game. Would you pay that much for an old game? I wouldn't no matter how much I enjoyed playing it 15-20 years ago.
There are too many things to keep kids busy today. For example, tv, video games and let us not forget the Internet. When I was growing up we could only watch cartoons on Sunday morning for an hour and had no access to this amazing toy called a computer. So, I am not surprised that LEGO is not doing so well financially. At least they have started listening to their customers so there is still hope that they will survive for a long time. I would want my kids to have access to LEGO toys more than anything.
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Very interesting post and I agree with you that we should not forget our past. But there is a difference between us and our family and closest friends knowning of our past actions and the general public having access to all this information. There are people in the general public that will not hesitate to use this information to harm you and/or your family. People are already getting burned because of some photos that they published on MySpace or a video of themselves on YouTube.
Actually, face recognition can be stated mathematically. It is about finding a function that maps an image's pixel values to a boolean value, i.e., true if the particular person is present in the image and false if otherwise. You can extend this to more than one person. In fact, the computer vision problems that you describe can all be stated mathematically. The "hacks" that you talk about are the heuristics that we have in our algorithms that search over the space of all possible functions to find the one that solves our problem. These heuristics simply encode our knowledge of the information that a face recognition algorithm should use. If you have enough data and a robust machine learning algorithm, the computer could learn these heuristics. Unfortunately, we don't have such algorithms yet. In the computer vision community, nobody claims that face recognition is a solved problem. However, we have developed some good algorithms that work well for certain tasks. Cheers!
Since Microsoft's main market is the average computer user, i.e., desktop sales of their OS, am I correct to conclude that said people don't read Business 2.0 and hence his call to boycott Vista will go unheard?
I am very interested in your property. I will email about it once I am done installing the Alexa toolbar and Browzar!
Eventually, it will get you a much better search engine. Unless of course you are satisfied with the current state of Google's (and others) image search functionality. I am not, so I will spend a few minutes every now and then to tag a few images. Cheers!
You managed to forget Microsoft's BOB. What's your secret?
WowWee and Evolution robotics announced a partnership last March which will probably get Evolution's object recognition technology onboard the Robosapien. This is the same technology that the AIBO used to recognize its special command cards. WowWee might have to upgrade Robosapien's processor for this because the image processing for the object recognition is expensive to do. However, I see that Evolution has an optimized version of the software for mobile phones so that might help a lot. Expect the next Robosapien version to be more capable but also a bit more expensive.
"Haven't emulators exploded in popularity (not to mention promised classic gaming on newer consoles) because people DO want to re-play these games?"
A publisher needs the correct answer not to the question as to whether people want to play old games, but rather whether people are willing to pay $50 for an old game. Would you pay that much for an old game? I wouldn't no matter how much I enjoyed playing it 15-20 years ago.
I haven't seen this posted yet, but recently Google started displaying the number of clicks that they consider fraudulent. You can read more about it in the Adwords blog here https://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?a nswer=44008
He sounds very confident that he will get this thing approved by the FAA. I say this might just be a good time to go to law school!
There are too many things to keep kids busy today. For example, tv, video games and let us not forget the Internet. When I was growing up we could only watch cartoons on Sunday morning for an hour and had no access to this amazing toy called a computer. So, I am not surprised that LEGO is not doing so well financially. At least they have started listening to their customers so there is still hope that they will survive for a long time. I would want my kids to have access to LEGO toys more than anything.
/. post so be gentle :-)
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