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- Face Recognition
- The ability to recognize people by their facial characteristics. The most advanced technology is based on the Eigenface algorithm, which maps the characteristics of a person's face into a...
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- Lenovo's 11-inch laptop now available
- Lenovo announced today that its new 11-inch widescreen laptop for consumers is now available online. The IdeaPad U110 was one of three notebook models Lenovo announced at CES in January when the company rolled out its new consumer brand, which includes IdeaPad laptops, and outside of the...
- Tags: Lenovo Group Ltd., Face Recognition, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Identifying a face from a single picture
- Law enforcement officers around the world can be happy today. A computer scientist and PhD candidate from the Umeå University in Sweden has developed algorithms that give a computer the possibility of recognizing a face, even if only one picture exists in the database used to identify criminals or suspects....
- Tags: Algorithm, Database, Face Recognition, Column, Image, Illumination, Engineering, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
- Face Recognition comes to photo albums
- Face recognition comes to photo albumsHere's the algorithms for thatThe algorithms for face detection:http://www.merl.com/reports/docs/TR2004-043.pdfhttp://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~cvrg/trinity2003/schneiderman_cvpr00.pdfAlthough if you want to do more general image analysis, I'd strongly recommend you don't read them until *after* you've created your approach, because it clouds your thinking and you can get a lot further down a...
- Tags: Engineering, face recognition, photo album, photograph
- Discussion threads 2006-03-14
- Can Face Recognition keep airports safe?
- Can face recognition keep airports safe?face recognition softwareI'm trying to find someone who may have face recognition software or tell me where I can purchase it for use in my job of Loss Prevention for the company I work for. Hope you can give me some helpful information.Thank you,Perry Newble
- Tags: face recognition, face recognition software
- Discussion threads 2005-01-19
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- Web 2.0 and the end of advertising
- The idea that software on the Web is going to be largely funded by advertising is just so wrong-headed, I hardly know where to start. It had me spluttering in the latest BriefingsDirect Insights analyst podcast hosted by Dana Gardner — more on that in a moment. Let's move on...
- Tags: Software, Web, Web 2.0, Advertisement, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Judge: Possible 'manifest error of law' in Thomas case
- In a huge break in the Capitol v. Thomas case – in which Jammie Thomas right was hit with a $220,000-plus verdict for copyright infringement – the judge in the case said he may have made a "manifest error of law" in his instructions to the jury. ...
- Tags: Distribution, RIAA, Judge, Mr., Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- A robotic chef for your kitchen?
- The European Commission has founded a project named 'Co-operative Human Robot Interaction Systems' CHRIS for a cost of €3.65 million. The project, which started in March 2008, will last 4 years. It is based at Bristol Robotics Lab BRL which will work with the University of the West of England...
- Tags: Project, CHRIS, Service Robot, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- The newspaper's last stand
- Interesting news today...or was it yesterday? I have no idea. I got off an eleven hour flight from Johannesburg this morning, and then had to race to the US embassy to get more visa pages in my passport because I've managed to fill every available visa slot with stamps, causing...
- Tags: Newspaper, CBS Broadcasting Inc., London Underground, Consumption Habit, E-books, Internet, Personal Technology, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Mobius Seattle 2008; First impressions of the HTC Advantage X7510
- As I stated in my Mobius Seattle 2008 Day one post eric lin from HTC gave each one of the attendees the new HTC Advantage 7510 device. These may not come to the U.S. due to Qualcomm import issues, but you will be able to pick them up from U.S....
- Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Mobius, Key, HTC Advantage 7510, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- What
- WhatWhat Vista Should BeAn excellent article and I couldn't agree with you more as to how an Operating System should be in 2008. Remembering of course that an OS is ONLY an OS. Everything productive one wants and needs to do on a computer sits above the layer of an...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, operating system, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-05-14
- Off topic: The facade of objectivity
- Off topic: The facade of objectivityGood post Larry!I think that what makes blogs so interesting is the fact that they're more like a conversation than anything else, and over repeated conversations you get to build up a picture of the person you are speaking to. Like you said, you generally...
- Tags: Blogging, Off Topic, facade, objectivity
- Discussion threads 2008-05-14
- Frequent open source miles
- Matt Asay's piece on "open source free- riders" got my goat this morning because we're on opposite sides of the market. Matt's a vendor, a high-ranking executive with Alfresco who by his own testimony spends a heavy chunk of his life in hotels and airports. ...
- Tags: Matt, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- College Schedule Maker (zip)
- College Schedule Maker helps students to create their own course schedules. Example: In our university, there is a system called Online Banner where we can register our courses for the next semester. The Problem: Almost all the times we face time-conflict of a course with another, so lot of us...
- Tags: Student, Course, AddaxSoft, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2008-05-14
- Will Jobs unveil a new iPhone at the WWDC keynote on June 9th?
- Will Jobs unveil a new iPhone at the WWDC keynote on June 9th?I think you're rightWhy else would the current stocks be dried up?Another Blow To Windows MobileI'm getting my next gen IPhone this fall and giving Windows Mobile the boot.I've had it with a second rate garbage OS....everyone I...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Advertising & Promotion, Keyboards, Handhelds, Cellular phones, job, Apple iPhone, WWDC, mobile, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- TopQuadrant welcomes Jena lead architect as Chief Product Architect
- Established North American Semantic Web company TopQuadrant today announced that Jeremy Carroll is joining the company as Chief Product Architect. Whilst at HP Labs, Carroll was lead architect on the open source Jena toolkit that lies behind much of today's commercial and non-commercial work on the Semantic...
- Tags: Toolkit, TopQuadrant, Semantic Web, Software Development, Internet, Software/Web Development, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Microsoft vs. Google: Are all monopolies created equal?
- Microsoft vs. Google: Are all monopolies created equal?until Google finnally invest into there own OSthey should start a nice bsd that in time will be the next os x and then MS will fine that they are in real troubleRE: Microsoft vs. Google: Are all monopolies created equal?made...
- Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., advertisement
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- Opera Mini 4.1 comes out of beta and earns a spot as my right soft key shortcut
- It was only a month ago that I mentioned the release of Opera Mini 4.1 beta and today I received the announcement that the full release of Opera Mini 4.1 is now available to download and install for free. It is so good that it has now earned a place...
- Tags: Opera Software, Channel Management, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- The key to Windows success? It's all about the drivers
- The key to Windows success? It's all about the driversTrialware payolaSo I read Item#5 as something of curiosity in terms of who pays and who gets. So if Widget Mfg. installs Widgette software as trialware, Widgette pays Widget Mfg. a fee to get into the installation rotation? Then...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Widgette, Widget Mfg, Microsoft Corp., OEM
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- Olympus E-520 dSLR debuts
- Cue "The Price is Right" music -- Olympus E-520 dSLR, come on down! In today's news, Olympus announced their E-520 this morning, the replacement for the E-510. Notable improvements in the new body include sensor-shift stabilization (including an updated system with a mode that...
- Tags: Body, Olympus Corp., ISO, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Pricing, Quality, Business Operations, Marketing, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- HP's bid for EDS: Opportunity costs loom
- HP's bid for EDS: Opportunity costs loomHP's bid for EDS: Opportunity costs loomI think it was a bad move on the part of HP. Its not that its going to be another Compaq deal but EDS the company itself is just a bad investment. They had a round of...
- Tags: Outsourcing, Mainframes, Sales strategy, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
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