An update

[gfish]

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.

Comments

[maida-mac.livejournal.com]

1: It's okay if you're not actually asking this.

Actually, I've been curious, but you operate outside of my areas of expertise, so I have to research what some of that means.

[keystricken.livejournal.com]

For reasons that are too arrogant to be written down

Rock! You are a badass.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that I wondered how little roboticists are made.

I think you mean 94!, not !94. The problem you describe reminds me of something I've heard EDA (electronic design automation, i.e. digital circuit design) people call the "subgraph isomorphism" problem, which I think has to do with determining equivalence between FSMs. Yeah, like so many interesting problems it's NP-hard, but who knows? Maybe you might find something in that literature useful.

[ilmarinen.livejournal.com]

Totally random and off-topic, but I don't "see" you online anymore--what's the chances of getting loan of your forge? Seeing as you are up in Canada and not using it...

Teammate and I are going to tackle some stock-removal knives, but will need forge-like temps to do hardening afterwards (start with fully annealed tool steel).

Thinking we can do that with a hollow fire brick and MAPP torch, but then thought about your forge.

-B.

[maribou]

Mm, so much geekiness, compressed *just enough* that I can still follow it.

And yes, I was curious.

[k-crow.livejournal.com]

I was definitely curious. :) Aaaand feeling like my brain went "TILT" on reading the explanation, but that's okay, it's still good to know what you are working on.