Journal

Google Earth + Atlantis Space Shuttle

I managed to catch the live feed from NASA.gov of the Atlantis Space Shuttle launch yesterday. Though what I found really interesting was a real-time virtual reality of the space shuttle launch from inside Google Earth. Screen-capture with obligatory 12x …

Facial Appearance Modeling/Tracking


I’ve been working on developing a method for automatic head-pose tracking, and along the way have come to model facial appearances. I start by initializing a facial bounding box using the Viola-Jones detector, a well known and robust detector used …

Real FFT/IFFT with the Accelerate Framework

Apple’s Accelerate Framework can really speed up your code without thinking too much. And it will also run on an iPhone. Even still, I did bang my head a few times trying to get a straightforward Real FFT and IFFT …