Posts Tagged ‘School’

I’m still alive!

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Just swamped with work. I’m really not going to take much time to write this post, but I will at least give a really, really short update. Schoolwise, I’m working hard. One course, which I’m probably going to fail is taking up way much more time that healthy. Other courses are taking up their fair amount of time too, but nothing compares to my CS5340 Bayesian Network course.

The Computer Vision course is hella fun! We’re working on an algorithm that stabilizes video material which it is doing pretty well already. I can’t show you any results yet, since my eee doesn’t do coding video that well ;) . I have a small clip that shows you how we find the movement in video via which we try and remove the shaking that people usually do. Some more than others…
The video looked better before uploading to Youtube… what you should see is a movie clip with in it arrows pointing in the direction in which points in the movie move. For people that are interested: Shi and Tomasi feature finding and pyramidical Lucas Kanade optical flow. YEEEE!


And as far as holidays go, we have it locked down. The mrs. is coming over 5th of december from which we will spend a whopping 5 days in Singapore. Then fly to Krabi, Thailand for a week of sunbathing, seeing … whatever… and doing… whatever… I don’t know about Thailand. And after that we’re flying to Jogyakarta to meet a friend of ours and a teacher of mine. It’s going to be weird, yet awesome. It is kind of weird, but he is the only 40+ person who actually commented on this blog, so that kind of levels stuff out.

Anyways, now off for dinner, than bed, then school again. Cheers!

Happy Birthday!

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Oh man… good weather leads to slacking, slacking leads to having to work extra hard further along the road, having to work extra hard further along the road leads to sleepless nights, sleepless nights lead to weird IRC convos.
At the moment I’m really not enjoying school. I am on the verge of missing a few deadlines, so I’m really putting some effort in my work now. Too bad that todays work consisted of finding trivial answers to trivial questions. I mean… the whole perceptual side of JPG-compression is somewhat interesting. From a computer science point of view, as well as from a photographer point of view and even as a psychologist to be. But when making exercises equals debugging a teacher’s Matlab code and doing the same trick over and over and over again, the fun kinda gets… less.
Ah well. At least I can use this as an excuse to stay up late and make weird blogposts right?
Happy Birthday Mystikal!

IRC Log

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the end of CHI

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Wow, this has been a crazy week. So much information to process, people to meet, pictures to take.

Lectures and courses
I’ve been following so many lectures on so many papers. It’s been crazy. Subjects ranged from “A comparison between Heuristics Evalutation Methods” to “User Research using Mechanical Turk”. I’ve been trying to attend to a lot of usability lectures, some of which were really interesting and some of which were plain bad. It was nice to see the difference between academic work and corporate work.
On the general however, it’s just like school. A lot of people sitting and listening to a lecture. Some people taking notes on paper, some taking notes on their macbook pros and some just taking pictures of the projected slides. (more…)