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September, 2006
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Software Transforms 2D Photos to a “simplified 3D ‘popup’ Environment” Automatically
One thing the system does not do is correct for the perspective, since it creates a simplified 3D standup backdrop and then just maps the actual photo over it without actually making any changes to it…. In our ICCV’05 paper Geometric Context from a Single Image, we provide a quantitative analysis of our system and extend our work by subclassifying vertical regions and using the geometric labels as context for object detection.
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Photos: Shuttle and ISS passing in Front of the Sun
Taken by a french astronomer, quite stunning to look at:Incredible!
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DPR (Dynamic Physical Rendering) Research at Intel: Touchable, Feelable Nano holograms using “Claytronics”
The goal of the project, which Intel has labeled Dynamic Physical Rendering (DPR), is to create a new form of media the researchers call pario-Greek for “to bring forth” or “to make.”What the researchers propose to make are moving, physical, three-dimensional replicas of people or objects, so lifelike that human senses would accept them as real…. Once they have refined the prototype, they will begin to experiment with shape control, communication and routing algorithms.The hardware goal for the coming year is to develop catoms that are reasonably robust, and inexpensive enough that kits containing 100 or so catoms could be sold to other researchers who could perform their own experiments and explore new programming models and applications.
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What the guys at the NSA are reading
Wired Magazine reports: “”This is one of the first glimpses we have had into NSA’s own library — and it’s a safe bet there are some gems in there,” said Secrecy News editor Steven Aftergood. Titles include “NSA in the Cyberpunk Future: A Somewhat Educated Guess at Things to Come” (1996), “I Was a Cryptologic Corporal” (1983), “Inference and Cover Stories” (1993), “Handy-Dandy Field Site History: Fifty Years of Field Operations, 1945-1995,” “The Fallacy of the One-Time-Pad Excuse” (1969), “Meteor Burst Communications: An Ignored Phenomenon?”
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Lizard Saliva against Diabetes
“If we needed another reason to stop the extinction of animals and plants around the world, the new medication derived from the saliva of the giant Gila monster desert lizard may be one. In three companion articles published Tuesday, September 26, 2006, in The Arizona Republic, Phoenix’s daily newspaper, reporter Connie Midey examined the excitement about a new diabetes medication based on the venomous saliva of the Gila monster.
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Windows Vista from a Mac User’s Perspective
Fun to read Article at MacWorld, for those of you who have not yet tried out Windows Vista and are curious to know what it feels like from “our” point of view. See Article.
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Amazing Cornstarch Fluid (Clip)
Just watch, I have really no words to describe this.
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Harry Potter 5: New High Res Images
Fearing that Hogwarts’ venerable Headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, is lying about Voldemort’s return in order to undermine his power and take his job, the Minister for Magic, Cornelius Fudge, appoints a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher to keep watch over Dumbledore and the Hogwarts students. But Professor Dolores Umbridge’s Ministry-approved course of defensive magic leaves the young wizards woefully unprepared to defend themselves against the dark forces threatening them and the entire wizarding community, so at the prompting of his friends Hermione and Ron, Harry takes matters into his own hands.