Soft Biometrics for healthcare
Soft Biometrics are all those semantic information that helps us describing people.
They're the buzz in the recent Biometric literature.
In this work the team of prof. M.J. Black used those information to browse a database composed of different 3D models.
The final goal is making the user more aware of weight related problems.
They achieve that by displaying to the user the physical shape that the parameters set implies, and making 'play' the user asking him/her to check different BMI values.
New Scientist writes about our work
Here some articles that stem from a New Scientist article about our last application of soft biometrics extraction (especially body weight).
New Scientist
(23 December 2011) 
Kinect weighs astronauts just by looking at them
TomsHW(it)
(28 December 2011) Kinect nello spazio per dirci quanto pesano gli astronauti
Communications of the ACM
(3 January 2012) Kinect weighs astronauts just by looking at them
BodySoft Biometrics
Body soft biometrics are becoming more and more important.
As one big part of my research (up to now) is focused on that, here one example that could benefit from the research about body soft biometrics and anthropometry.
Space Take two
Ok, this is simply mind blowing...
NOTCOT.ORG
via A beautiful time-lapse video taken from the....
A beautiful time-lapse video taken from the…
Ok, this is simply mind blowing...
NOTCOT.ORG
Trends in machine vision cameras
A nice explanation of why Ethernet cameras could easily be the future of commercial security cameras (follow the link).
Machine Vision 4 Users
WANT Autopilot for Volkswagen cars
The new Temporary AutoPilot system tested by Volkswagen.
They solve the responsibility problem addressing all of it to the user. He who drives has to constantly monitor the system. Still I think that is more boring to monitor a car than driving it.
The presented system would be even nicer if the automatic system could turn on in case the driver IS inattentive to the road.
Web-tailoring
Interesting video about the web-tailoring that since a couple of years is going on on the web. People before filtered was what worth their attention/passion/likes/dislikes.
Now someone else will decide for us.
EPFL and Pix4D – Automatic 3D city map reconstruction
Interesting videos of the applications developed within the Pix4D startup ran by people of the EPFL:
Nucleare si / nucleare no
(Only in Italian, sorry)
Rispondo qui ad un articolo condiviso in GoogleReader da Matteo.
In risposta all'articolo, quindi, mi piacerebbe sapere anche l'incidenza di un impianto a Carbone e quello Nucleare. Gli effetti sono a lunghissimo termine come quelli delle scorie?
Inquinare della terra con del carbone bruciato (sic) nuoce come inquinarla con qualcosa di radioattivo?
Il grafico è interessantissimo e solleva una questione molto importante... Ma come ogni grafico, può essere voltato come lo si vuole, basta guardare i dati infatti e si scopre come per gli USA il carbone nuoccia a 15 persone per TWh mentre in Cina a 278 per TWh, significa che la Cina investe meno in sicurezza derivata dal bruciare Carbone, non significa che il carbone fa più vittime ma che lo usano in maniera non-safe.
Si sono tenute in conto le possibili mutazioni che provengono dall'esposizione prolungata alle radiazioni che si hanno abitando a corto raggio da una centrale? E le scorie?
I dati devono essere irreprensibilmente analizzati.
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