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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
Additional Resources
- Disaster averted: But (sob) my next notebook might not be an Apple one
- I'm thinking I owe GreenTech Pastures readers an update on the state of my Apple PowerBook G4, which now is resting comfortably on the desk behind me, although it's in a bit of rehab with some applications that have disappeared. (Yes, I have two computers, so shoot me.) One of...
- Tags: Toshiba Tecra, Apple Inc., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-17
- Survivor Buddy, a friendly robot rescuer
- The St. Petersburg Times, Florida, reports that a well-known robot designer, Robin Murphy, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of South Florida USF, 'plans to add a heart to robot rescuers.' As says USF, the goal is to develop 'a robot that will be a companion...
- Tags: Details, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-17
- 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
- Federal charges in MySpace suicide case
- Federal charges in MySpace suicide caseIndictment Sad Misplacement of JusticeYes the suicide was tragic. There is no ignoring that fact. And yes Lori Drew acted improperly, but where is the line drawn? The line between being a mean person and being a criminal has now been blurred...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, MySpace
- Discussion threads 2008-05-15
- Judge: Possible 'manifest error of law' in Thomas case
- Judge: Possible 'manifest error of law' in Thomas caseI don't buy the argument......that a copyright holder should have to prove an actual distribution took place. Given the circumstances it's obvious to anyone who isn't clouded by RIAA hatred the files were there to be copied by anyone. Does this mean...
- Tags: Copiers, RIAA, actual distribution
- Discussion threads 2008-05-15
- 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
- DIY phishing kits introducing new features
- DIY phishing kits introducing new featuresArrest them, Jail them.Make the posession of such software, with the exception of the scientific community, illegal and punishable by 5 years minimum in jail.Or send them to Gitmo. That would be my choics...Turn em loosein a room filled with people who have had...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, phishing kit, DIY, phishing
- Discussion threads 2008-05-15
- Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?
- Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?Mark Cuban - Time Traveller and MastermindMark Cuban "founded Broadcast.com in 1005 and sold it to Yahoo in July 1999". HOLY %&*! Mark Cuban not only travelled back to 1005, but he also registered a domain and started an internet company...
- Tags: Portals, Web technology, Financial accounting, Gordon Gekko, Yahoo! Inc., Mark Cuban, Icahn
- Discussion threads 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
- Canon PowerShot SD890 IS
- Whether human or camera, it's always hard following in the footsteps of a popular sibling, and the near-universally well-liked Canon PowerShot SD850 IS is a harder act to follow than most. Rather than simply bump up the resolution and zoom range for the SD890 IS--it's now 10 megapixels, up from...
- Tags: Canon PowerShot, SD890 IS, Canon Inc., SD850 IS, camera
- Product reviews 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
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