Sunday, November 11, 2007

Sunday

Done some research regarding my masters thesis. Seems that I'll make a pretty good use of the lecture slides provided by Marc Pollefeys of UNC Chapel Hill, especially his Multiple View Geometry course (http://www.cs.unc.edu/~marc/mvg/), I'm also in process of acquiring a book by Hartley & Zisserman "Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision" and "Computer Vision - A Modern approach" by Ponce. Those, along with a bunch of papers, should cover most of the 2D->3D stuff I'm going to do in my thesis.

F-spot - I looked into the Adaboost algorithm of my trainer, seems that it concludes the training too fast (after 4-5 stages), I remember I was happy with that earlier, because I got some results, but the training only took a couple of hours, but now it's time to make it work it's way up to 20-30 stages, like in the original V-J classifier.

I bought a dsm-g600 NAS device a couple of months back, today I'll be trying to put uShare onto it so it will uPnP stream my photos / music / videos to my home network. Maybe a cool idea for f-spot - adding a dpap plugin, so it could pop-up a photo library just like rhythmbox does with music libraries.

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Follow-up

Wow, it's been 4 months since I last blogged. Time flies - seems to be my keyword for life. For the past couple of days I've been thinking about how to improve the results of my face detection implementation and I think the order's gonna be (I'll stick to Viola-Jone's nomenclature, if something's not clear to you please check their paper) :
1. Switch to integral images and integral-image-based features
2. Fix AdaBoost (there's something wrong with my AB implementation, it's not optimal - gotta find why

After that I should run the training process on a larger dataset and see how it affected the results.
----
During my stay in Tucson, over the summer, I've been doing some work at the University of Arizona, namely at the Arizona Simulation Technology and Education Center - ASTEC. Because of my interest in medicine I'm very happy of the time spent in that lab, I was also able to collect some data that should make a basis for my thesis - "Image processing in computer-guided surgical training". One of the interesting things I'll be doing in there is a structure-to-motion application. My website http://wytyczak.com/andrzej/upload/ should have the most up-to-date stuff on that matter.