Parlottoliere http://www.velardo.org/blog Semi-Quasi-Official-Blog Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:56:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Soft Biometrics for healthcare http://www.velardo.org/blog/?p=463 http://www.velardo.org/blog/?p=463#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:50:36 +0000 admin http://www.velardo.org/blog/?p=463 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.

 

]]> http://www.velardo.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=463 0 New Scientist writes about our work http://www.velardo.org/blog/?p=461 http://www.velardo.org/blog/?p=461#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:29:23 +0000 admin http://www.velardo.org/blog/?p=461 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) Newspaper version of the article
Kinect weighs astronauts just by looking at them

 

Communications of the ACM

(3 January 2012) Kinect weighs astronauts just by looking at them

]]> http://www.velardo.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=461 2 BodySoft Biometrics http://www.velardo.org/blog/?p=449 http://www.velardo.org/blog/?p=449#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:54:05 +0000 admin http://www.velardo.org/blog/?p=449 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.

www.bodymetrics.com

]]> http://www.velardo.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=449 0 Space Take two http://www.velardo.org/blog/?p=430 http://www.velardo.org/blog/?p=430#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:36:38 +0000 admin http://www.velardo.org/blog/?p=430 Ok, this is simply mind blowing...

NOTCOT.ORG

via A beautiful time-lapse video taken from the....

]]> http://www.velardo.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=430 0 A beautiful time-lapse video taken from the… http://www.velardo.org/blog/?p=437 http://www.velardo.org/blog/?p=437#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:13:20 +0000 admin http://www.velardo.org/blog/?p=437 Ok, this is simply mind blowing...

 

NOTCOT.ORG

via A beautiful time-lapse video taken from the....

]]> http://www.velardo.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=437 0 Trends in machine vision cameras http://www.velardo.org/blog/?p=435 http://www.velardo.org/blog/?p=435#comments Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:45:37 +0000 admin http://www.velardo.org/blog/?p=435 A nice explanation of why Ethernet cameras could easily be the future of commercial security cameras (follow the link).

 

Machine Vision 4 Users

via Trends in machine vision cameras.

]]> http://www.velardo.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=435 0 WANT Autopilot for Volkswagen cars http://www.velardo.org/blog/?p=428 http://www.velardo.org/blog/?p=428#comments Fri, 05 Aug 2011 07:50:02 +0000 admin http://www.velardo.org/blog/?p=428 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.

LINK TO THE ARTICLE

 

]]> http://www.velardo.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=428 0 Web-tailoring http://www.velardo.org/blog/?p=424 http://www.velardo.org/blog/?p=424#comments Sun, 10 Jul 2011 11:27:28 +0000 admin http://www.velardo.org/blog/?p=424 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.

]]> http://www.velardo.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=424 0 EPFL and Pix4D – Automatic 3D city map reconstruction http://www.velardo.org/blog/?p=422 http://www.velardo.org/blog/?p=422#comments Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:12:07 +0000 admin http://www.velardo.org/blog/?p=422 Interesting videos of the applications developed within the Pix4D startup ran by people of the EPFL:

]]> http://www.velardo.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=422 0 Nucleare si / nucleare no http://www.velardo.org/blog/?p=418 http://www.velardo.org/blog/?p=418#comments Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:56:40 +0000 admin http://www.velardo.org/blog/?p=418 (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.

PS: Eppoidopotutto è l'infografic il MARKETING :)

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