I passed my oral exam

I passed my oral exam this week. Now I need to start doing research again.

Montage of False Color Images from 165 Webcams

 

Yet another pretty picture generated from the AMOS dataset. This montage consists of 165 false color image (each created using principal component analysis) generated from 165 different webcams.

Images from the Archive of Many Outdoor Scenes (AMOS) on flickr

Here is one of the 170 montage images in a collection of images generated from the AMOS dataset. In addition to uploading them to flickr, I ordered a couple of mini-photo books from qoop that I am hoping will arrive before I leave for CVPR.

This is an archive of Scene 388 from the dataset which is located at (37.759700, -114.972400).

CVPR 2007

In less than two weeks a group of fellow graduate students and I will crowd into a van and drive to CVPR (a computer vision conference) in Minneapolis.  I hope to see some new things that will  inspire my research and to talk to people about a summer internship.  On Thursday, June 21, I present a poster on temporal variations in outdoor static cameras.

the computer vision canon

My colleague Michael Dixon and I have recently been wishing for a list of papers that everyone in the computer vision field should read and understand. Any good textbook on computer vision contains a list of important books, but I am lazy. I want a list on the web.

I think I have found the beginnings of such a list on Wikipedia as part of the Science Pearls project. In my opinion, the list of important papers in computer vision is too short—it only contains five papers—but it is a start.

Tensor Algebra Learning

For the past few days I have been learning the mathematical concept of a tensor (a generalization of matrix with additional dimensions) and trying to see how it applies to my research.

You can find a few tensor links I have gathered on my del.icio.us page.

wustl bound

I will be heading to St. Louis this fall to work on a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Washington University.

Stay tuned.

colorization using optimization

I love it when computer science is pretty.

.NET Information Retrieval

A quick search for .NET related information retrieval and text classification sites resulted in the following list:

• nlucene : a seemingly dead (maybe never alive) lucene rewrite
• lucene.net
• visual basic data mining

It looks like there is not much out there… can anyone point me to a few more sites?

update: added lucene.net

content management systems etc.

For the last week I have been evaluating bids for a content management systems that will be deployed across campus. The plan is for the central IT shop to act as a content management ASP (similar to atomz).

My first impression is that most of these systems are designed for deployment to a single location. Or possibly that is just the most common deployment scenario.

Gosh that was really boring… in other news… I twisted my ankle this weekend at Summer Soaker 3. It was my first ultimate frisbee tournament in about two years and I played well and had fun. Because of the sprain I have been mooching rides off of everyone since I can’t ride my bike. Oooohhh and guess what else… last night I played in the sandbox with my son. I buried his toes in slightly wet sand and then he made them peek out. We also made smoothies (yum) and ate popcorn.

I am also reading Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort (the origin of zipf’s law) by G. Zipf. I have seen it cited in many places and figured it was time to read this classic. I really love when the fields of sociology, economics, biology and computer science come together (sorry requires IE). If you want to read it for yourself I suggest your local library because $250 is the best price I found on the web.