Real-time Computer Vision with Ruby

I gave a presentation about Real-time Computer Vision with Ruby at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon. You can download the presentation here:

• Real-time Computer Vision with Ruby Presentation.pdf (9.19 MiB, abstract)

A machine vision extension for the Ruby programming language

The publication A machine vision extension for the Ruby programming language is available for download on the Digital Commons Repository of Sheffield Hallam University. The paper describes early work on the HornetsEye Ruby-extension in context of the Nanorobotics project.

Action against underspending

Are you also notoriously leading your department into problems by underspending on your budget? I am proposing a 3-step solution:

• Send me e-mails with the expected amount of underspending
• I will sum up the stated amounts
• At the end of the fiscal year everyone transfers the money into an escrow acount to finance a new space program

Update: So far I have received estimates amounting to £60,000.

Lucas-Kanade tracker

After reading the paper Lucas-Kanade 20 Years On: A Unifying Framework, I’ve implemented a Lucas-Kanade tracker with HornetsEye. The video shows tracking of a texture patch using a 2-D affine transform as model.

Steerable filters generated with hypercomplex wavelets

The publication Steerable Filters Generated With the Hypercomplex Dual-Tree Wavelet Transform is available for download on the Digital Commons Repository of Sheffield Hallam University.