Four short links: 13 August 2015
Elements of Style: Learning Perceptual Shape Style Similarity — code and data for research that helps perceive stylistic similarity between objects that transcends structure and function. For example,...
View ArticleFour short links: 1 September 2015
End-to-End People Detection in Crowded Scenes — research paper and code. When parsing the title, bind “end-to-end” to “scenes” not “people”. Statistical Patterns in Movie Ratings (PLOSone) — We find...
View ArticleFour short links: 20 October 2015
HyperCam (PDF) — paper from Ubicomp 2015 on a low-cost implementation of a multispectral camera and a software approach that automatically analyzes the scene and provides a user with an optimal set of...
View ArticleFour short links: 22 October 2015
Predicting Daily Activities from Egocentric Images Using Deep Learning — Our technique achieves an overall accuracy of 83.07% in predicting a person’s activity [from images taken by a camera worn all...
View ArticleFour short links: 16 November 2015
Hospital Hacking (Bloomberg) — interesting for both lax regulation (“The FDA seems to literally be waiting for someone to be killed before they can say, ‘OK, yeah, this is something we need to worry...
View ArticleFour short links: 20 November 2015
DeepDive — Stanford project to create structured data (SQL tables) from unstructured information (text documents) and integrate such data with an existing structured database. DeepDive is used to...
View ArticleFour short links: 27 November 2015
87% of Android Devices Insecure — researchers find they’re vulnerable to malicious apps because manufacturers have not provided regular security updates. (via Bruce Schneier) A Computational Approach...
View ArticleFour short links: 3 December 2015
Japanese Scientists Create Touchable Holograms (Reuters) — Using femtosecond laser technology, the researchers developed ‘Fairy Lights, a system that can fire high-frequency laser pulses that last one...
View ArticleFour short links: 4 December 2015
New Antibiotics Research Direction — most people don’t know that we can’t cultivate and isolate most of the microbes we know about. Swift now Open Source — Apache v2-licensed. An Apple exec is talking...
View ArticleFour short links: 16 December 2015
Face Director — Disney software to match faces between takes. We demonstrate that our method can synthesize visually believable performances with applications in emotion transition, performance...
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