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Comment DIY Google Guide (Score 1) 236

by gwappo on Saturday November 15, 2008 @02:47PM (#25771645) Attached to: Scientists Create Easier Way To Embed Objects Into Video

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic; however you'll see these types of things pop up more and more.

Things to google for if you want to implement this yourself:

- "Point Matching" - when given two frames, which points are matching?

- "Five Point Relative Pose Problem" - this helps correlate camera motion from frame to frame when given 5 matching 2D points

- RANSAC - this helps filter out those matches that correspond to different moving objects - you'll burn through a lot of 5 point combinations and eventually the majority winner stays on.

Where I hope this area of technology goes is in the development of highly efficient HD codecs; I personally can't wait!

Comment Re:I think I'll go lie down in a field of dandelio (Score 1) 218

by limekiller4 on Saturday October 11, 2008 @06:43PM (#25342103) Attached to: Opus the Penguin Retired

Are you snorting dandelions again?? Don't you know what that can do you to you? Good lord, it can't be good...

Comment Re:It'd be interesting to find out (Score 1) 274

by Obsequious on Thursday March 13, 2008 @10:55PM (#22747408) Attached to: High Expectations For Google Android

How does it feel when your product is totally pwnt before it's even released?

If it ever happens, I'll let you know.

- Dan

Submission + - Germany to build new maglev railway. (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by

EWAdams

on Tuesday September 25, 2007 @10:44AM

EWAdams writes: "According to the BBC, the Bavarian state government has announced that it has signed an agreement with Deutsche Bahn, the German state railway system, and the Transrapid consortium, to provide a maglev railway between central Munich and its airport. The only other maglev in full operation at the moment is in Shanghai, again as a city-to-airport service. No completion date has been announced."

Submission + - Hacker does a DIY Amiga in FPGA (hetnet.nl)

Submitted by on Thursday August 02, 2007 @04:32PM

An anonymous reader writes: Developer Dennis van Weeren recently announced completion of his from-scratch completely re-engineered Amiga chipset. His PCB design is fully operational and compatible and his verilog code has been released under GPL. Will this finally give the Amiga community a new breath of life?

Submission + - PS3 Gurus share their secrets (insomniacgames.com)

Submitted by on Thursday August 02, 2007 @03:32PM

An anonymous reader writes: The developers at Insomniac Games have started sharing their secrets. With their new website, http://www.insomniacgames.com/tech/techpage.php, Cell and PS3 developers can get info from the bleeding edge of Playstation development. Will this lead to more openness among normally tight-lipped console developers?

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