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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 07:52 pm
What am I up to, you may be asking1? Well, classes are almost over. I have 2 more assignments to do, one huge and one pretty small. But mostly, now that I have a supervisor, I'm focusing on the 3 class projects due at the end of April. No finals this term, which is nice, but that means projects instead.

Image Understanding II: I'm implementing this paper, adding image features from several others, in order to create a generalized image quality assessment for the SRVC project. Basically, we want to screen out cartoons, paintings, illustrations and renderings, while at the same time ranking the remaining images by how good they are for training a classifier.
Status: Pretty good. I have the paper implemented, and I'm starting to add the new features. I have a decent training set downloaded, but it could use some more work.

Sensorimotor Computation: I'm implementing some visual tracking/servoing on the eye simulation hardware. Not entirely sure what, yet. Basically GYRE in one dimension, with a motor instead of compressed air thrusters. And no freefall.
Status: The person who really knew how to run the system left in December, so it took me about 3 weeks to even get it running again. But this weekend I started working on the new code, which so far hasn't been that hard. I need to implement some kind of PID control loop now.

Machine Learning: For reasons that are too arrogant to be written down, I want to find a way to match the states in two or more Markov processes as equivalent, given just the initial probabilities and the transition table. As far as I and the professor know, no one has ever done this before. And since I'm dealing with (in the test data set) 94 states, I'm basically searching a 94! permutation space. And this is by far my weakest area. So, good times.
Status: lol

1: It's okay if you're not actually asking this.
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 07:22 am (UTC)
It's buried somewhere in my parents' garage/barn. I think the chances of getting it out easily are pretty low. I'm not even entirely sure where the regulator ended up, since that got forgotten during the first trip. Sorry.
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 07:29 am (UTC)
That's cool. Now I have no excuse not to make my own solution. Man, burner design is sexy. They are simple carburetors! I really don't need a "real" forge for my purposes, but it's tempting to at least make a coffee can/paint can size one for the sake of it.

-b.