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.

2006 recap: Landscape Challenge

During 2006 we won a native plant landscape makeover and below are a few pictures from the event.  Our home was selected for a makeover over 75 other applicants. We had a great group of volunteers help transform our yard on a Saturday in September.  I will continue posting pictures of the yard to my flickr site as the seasons change.

Before the makeover.

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.

I’m back

I have not blogged in a year and a half because I moved to St. Louis to work on a Ph.D. and decided to take a break.  Anyhow, I should be blogging more regularly now.

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.

dude

I have watched The Big Lebowski twice in the past week and, incidentally, the stress from the semester has faded. So, now I am putting together a proposal for my summer research.

and relax

The semester is over for me. I spent the last few weeks working on projects and papers but they are done. I still haven’t shaken the stress — or maybe it is just allergies — but my office is clean and I am ready for new projects.

I am currently working on a coding standards document (about which, incidentally, Joel Spolsky just published an article). It is a topic that many have opinions about… but I am only hoping to get a reasonable standard in place for our group so that it can improve over time.

super mom?

My mom is making quite a scene in the knitting-blogger world.

Congrats mom.

St. Louis Science Center

This past weekend I went with my son to the St. Louis Science Center (in the Cyberville gallery) to see an exhibit I helped create several years ago. In the game three players (a supplier, a builder and an architect) work together to build a house. After the house was complete the voice of Aaron Brown congratulated us and we got to shoot off some fireworks. A kid standing behind me… waiting for a turn… actually said “Cool… mom I want to build a house too”.

It was the first time I had gotten to see the exhibit running since it was installed… a proud moment.

colorization using optimization

I love it when computer science is pretty.