I recently had a journal article I wrote accepted into the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security which makes me a very happy chappy. The article is titled “Multi-Scale Representation for 3D Face Recognition” and the pdf is up on the publications page (just up the top there).
Oh and I’ve cracked 100 pages on my thesis!!!! Well it’s a 103 page document anyways, 85 numbered pages the rest being things like title page and table of content… so I guess I’m about half way there, still things like literature review to do aswell which will bulk it right out 
Our internet access situation at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is based entirely on keeping a browser pop-up window open on your computer. You log in and your username is associated with that computer (for quota purposes) for as long as that pop-up exists, the problem with this is that when you are running on a linux box in terminal mode there is no way to create such a pop up!! GRRRR!!
Some of the experiments that I’m running require that xml parameter files are parsed using a XSD schema file which is located on a central (non-QUT) server, of course when the machine tries to go get it all it gets is a ‘You aren’t allowed to use the internet message’. To get around this our friendly IT support gurus have used the hosts file (/etc/hosts) to redirect traffic to that internet server back to the local machine
127.0.0.2 www.bee-biometrics.org
Then we created an entry in the httpd.conf file (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf) which served up the files from a local directory. Basically I used an X session once to download the files and now I can go nuts from the terminal. True story.
<VirtualHost www.bee-biometrics.org:80>
ServerAdmin root@localhost
DocumentRoot /localdata/imageonr/FRGC/BEE_DIST
ServerName www.bee-biometrics.org
ErrorLog logs/www.bee-biometrics.org-error_log
CustomLog logs/www.bee-biometrics.org-access_log common
<Directory "/localdata/imageonr/FRGC/BEE_DIST">
Options Indexes
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Was just doing some reading on practical uses of face-recognition and came across this article (not anything to do with automated Face-Rec). The girls in this article look so alike that I’m still not convinced that they aren’t the same person, I know that any software that I’ve written would have trouble telling them apart. Apparently the girl on the right spent a week in jail and had her name smeared in local media for a crime the other girl helped commit (despite the fact that she was 17 years old at the time)
I’ve got to try this out sometime, and seeing as it fits nicely into my work with 3D face recognition I don’t even have to do it on my own time
Create your own super hi-tech 3-D laser scanner. Using just a laser pointer, wine glass, rotating platform, and a digital video camera, you can make accurate 3-D models of a object or person.
- Convert the video to an avi.
- Use an edge detection algorithm to find the location of the laser line.
- Reconstruct your 3-D model
Update: I’ve had trouble downloading the m-file so when I got it down I put it up here for anyone to grab.
