amelim
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Comment · 7 years ago
Tech spends money on lobbying local politicians to write favorable public policy. This should be obvious.
Comment · 12 years ago
You are forgetting that they have an Emmy award winning show on HBO.
Comment · 12 years ago
I disagree. Games like Dota 2 and League of Legends are filling sports stadiums and giving out multi-million dollar prize pools these days. If anything, at least in the United States, they are on the rise.
Comment · 12 years ago
Using feature detectors and descriptors is only half of the solution. If you really want robust image recognition you need to use something like the vocabulary tree developed by Nister[1][2].
[1]http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~bagon/CVspring07/files/sca... [2]http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~phlosoft/files/schindler07cvpr2.pd...
Comment · 12 years ago
I was able to get the DK1 working using a hdmi -> regular displayport adapter for my Thinkpad X220 on Ubuntu 13.04
Comment · 12 years ago
One of the coolest approaches I've seen does some cool inference on fully connected Conditional Random Fields via high-dimensional filtering. Amazing results.
http://vladlen.info/publications/efficient-inference-in-full...
Comment · 12 years ago
Well, some of us just happen to be graduate robotics students :)
Comment · 12 years ago
I believe the fundamental difference is that the time to get to null-sec in EVE (the actual interesting component of the game that generates strong narratives) takes a significant time investment from the player. Leveling up skills, purchasing ships, and developing knowledge of the game are fairly tedious.
In comparison, you can get thrown into interesting situations from the get-go in DayZ. Basic FPS skills and a little knowledge of the clunky interface are all you need to generate strong player narratives. Whereas you make need several weeks to months to motivate an interesting experience in EvE, DayZ only requires a time investment of a couple hours (maybe).
Comment · 13 years ago
Sure! My lab focuses on SLAM and 3D reconstruction, especially for robotic applications. We've developed a BSD-licensed C++ (w/ MATLAB wrapper) library with specific applications towards 3D reconstruction problems such as SLAM and structure from motion. It's called GTSAM [1]
We actively maintain and release new features as they are published. While we don't provide a full out of the box pipeline (yet!), there are plenty of examples and documentation which walk you though the math, implementation, and other issues. If you want to read about the graphical models underlying GTSAM, see [2]
Utilizing OpenCV for feature detection and association is pretty much all you really need to add to a program in order to recreate Photosynth using gtsam. I'd also you recommend KAZE features from a former post-doc out of our lab, it's state of the art and recently added OpenCV wrappers[3]. However, it's also trivial to integrate other sensors such as IMUs, GPS, lasers, etc. for full navigation problems.
If you wish to know more about the actual subject, I definitely recommend Hartley and Zisserman's Multiview Geometery Book[4]
[1] https://borg.cc.gatech.edu/borg/
[2] http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~dellaert/pub/Dellaert06ijrr.pdf
Comment · 13 years ago
I believe that most UAV designs for extra-terrestrial missions are designed around the use of airships rather than more traditional airplane or quadrotor designs. An example of initial research in the area is the Titan Aerobot [1]
[1] https://scienceandtechnology.jpl.nasa.gov/research/facilitie...
Comment · 13 years ago
As someone who is on the other side of the fence for this program (I'm currently a CS PhD student at Georgia Tech), I can tell you that many of the faculty are excited about online programs. Hopefully the learning process for the faculty goes smoothly and the online students have a worthwhile experience. I know I'm excited to help TA some of the courses!
Currently working at Georgia Tech on autonomous soaring, robot navigation, and 3D reconstruction. Robotics PhD student at Georgia Tech.
Lab Website: http://borg.cc.gatech.edu/
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