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Smart self-service scales

German researchers have developed new self-service scales able to automatically recognize fruit or vegetables placed on them. As says the lead scientist, 'The scales automatically recognize which fruit or vegetables are to be weighed and ask the customer to choose between only those icons that are relevant,' such as various...

Tags: Scale, Vegetable, Fruit, Image Evaluation Algorithm, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-08-17

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Particle swarm optimization for pictures

Particle swarm optimization PSO is a computer algorithm based on a mathematical model of the social interactions of swarms which was first described in 1995. Now, researchers in the UK and Jordan have carried this swarm approach to photography to 'intelligently boost contrast and detail in an image without distorting...

Tags: Swarm, Algorithm, Optimization, Image, Particle Swarm Optimization, Engineering, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-02-03

Learning Fast Classifiers for Image Spam

Recently, spammers have proliferated "Image spam", emails which contain the text of the spam message in a human readable image instead of the message body, making detection by conventional content filters difficult. New techniques are needed to filter these messages. Their goal is to automatically classify an image directly as...

Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, Image, Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing

White papers 2007-06-12

Honest Image Thumbnails: Algorithm and Subjective Evaluation

Image thumbnails are commonly used for selecting images for display, sharing or printing. Current, standard thumbnails do not distinguish between high and low quality originals. Both sharp and blurry originals appear sharp in the thumbnails, and both clean and noisy originals appear clean in the thumbnails. This leads to errors...

Tags: Algorithm, Hewlett-Packard Co., Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

White papers 2007-06-01

If others think poorly or well of you (personally or professionally), TheGORB.com will tell you

If others think poorly or well of you personally or professionally, TheGORB.com will tell youopportunismI only see this site as either being abused by opportunists or either not creating any controversy at all. The goal of creating controversy already is very opportunistic and quite frankly when people's personal feelings are...

Tags: INTERNET, Scum, rater

Discussion threads 2007-03-11

Vista Hands On #4: Clean install with an upgrade key

Ive been reading the breathless reports from other websites this week about the "Vista upgrade loophole." Most of it is typical echo-chamber stuff, and most of the reports Ive read so far have gotten the basic facts wrong. The Setup feature theyre describing isnt a loophole at all. Its a...

Tags: Tips, Windows Vista

Blog posts 2007-02-15

USPTO to re-examine JPEG patent

USPTO to re-examine JPEG patentJPEG patent's claim is invalidI personnaly worked between 1985 and 1989 on image compression algorithms in France, long before the JPEG group issued its first standard. This work was held there as a research project with European financements as an "Eureka" project.The company for which I...

Tags: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, JPEG, patent, JPEG patent

Discussion threads 2006-02-06

Self-repairing spacecrafts

NASA and CSIRO in Australia are working together to build future spacecrafts able to detect, diagnose and fix damage, whether inflicted by impacts or caused by equipment failures. The CSIRO team has developed a spacecraft skin based on the concept of a multi-cellular sensor and communication network. The current model...

Tags: CSIRO team, cell, CSIRO

Blog posts 2005-09-25