From holl at cs.ucsb.edu  Tue Sep  4 07:45:07 2012
From: holl at cs.ucsb.edu (Tobias Hollerer)
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 07:45:07 -0700
Subject: [4eyes] Next lab meeting: This THURSDAY @ noon
Message-ID: <504613F3.7050205@cs.ucsb.edu>


Hi everyone,

last week, we loosely planned for our next lab meeting to be today.
However, for several scheduling reasons, we will now hold it this
Thursday, Sept. 6th, at noon (2003 Elings).

Jonathan will go over the documentation of his mobile augmented
reality framework and give us a crash course in how to use it. I hope
that everyone interested in AR will be able to make it.

We'll make the session a GotoMeeting as well in the hope that people
away from the lab (on internship or else) might be able to join it.

Cheers,

     Tobias





-- 
Tobias Hollerer
Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5110

holl at cs.ucsb.edu, Office: (805)284-9395, Fax: (805)893-8553


From holl at cs.ucsb.edu  Tue Sep  4 11:49:26 2012
From: holl at cs.ucsb.edu (Tobias Hollerer)
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 11:49:26 -0700
Subject: [4eyes] GoToMeeting Invitation - Jonathan's AR Framework (Four Eyes
	Lab Meeting)
Message-ID: <000001cd8ace$033678d0$09a36a70$@cs.ucsb.edu>

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From cmsweeney at cs.ucsb.edu  Wed Sep  5 12:56:53 2012
From: cmsweeney at cs.ucsb.edu (Chris Sweeney)
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 12:56:53 -0700
Subject: [4eyes] New Computer Vision Textbook
Message-ID: <CAB_h4O45NimUSSukYgwn+uXvLEQ02-5Z7b=0B3O3Y4EXsjb7rA@mail.gmail.com>

Free PDF version available on the website

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Simon Prince <s.prince at cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 5:57 PM
Subject: [Imageworld] New vision textbook now available
To: imageworld at diku.dk


COMPUTER VISION: MODELS, LEARNING AND INFERENCE

Simon J.D. Prince


This new computer vision textbook from Cambridge University Press is now
available from all good booksellers. The final electronic version has also
been posted at the book website:

http://www.computervisionmodels.com

This website also includes more than 1000 powerpoint slides to accompany
the text as well as answers to the problems, and an algorithm booklet
including pseudocode for more than 70 of the algorithms discussed in the
book.

The book would be suitable for an advanced undergraduate or graduate course
in computer vision or machine learning. It would also be useful for most
computer vision MSc and PhD students in these areas.

The book is divided into six parts.


PART I: PROBABILITY

1. Introduction. 2. Joint, marginal, conditional probability, independence,
expectation. 3. Probability distributions, conjugacy. 4. ML, MAP and
Bayesian approaches. 5. The multivariate normal distribution.


PART II: MACHINE LEARNING

6. Introduction to machine learning, generative and discriminative models.
7. Hidden variables, MoG, t-distributions, factor analysis, EM algorithm.
8. Linear regression, non-linear regression, Gaussian process regression,
relevance vector regression. 9. Logistic regression, Gaussian process
classification, boosting, classification trees.


PART III: CONNECTING LOCAL MODELS

10. Conditional independence, directed and undirected graphical models,
ancestral sampling, Gibbs sampling, contrastive divergence. 11. Hidden
Markov models, dynamic programming, belief propagation. 12. Markov random
fields, binary graph cuts, multi-label graph cuts, alpha-expansion
algorithm.


PART IV: PREPROCESSING

13. Image preprocessing, filtering, edge and corner detectors, local binary
patterns, SIFT, HoG, principal components analysis, k-means algorithm.


PART V: GEOMETRY

14. Pinhole camera model, homogeneous coordinates, estimating camera pose,
calibration, reconstruction. 15. Transformations, fitting transformations,
estimating pose to planem, calibration from planes, homographies, RANSAC,
PEaRL. 16. Epipolar geometry, essential and fundamental matrices, bundle
adjustment, rectification, multi-view reconstruction.


PART VI: COMPUTER VISION MODELS

17. Snakes, shape template models, statistical shape models, active shape
models, active appearance models, GPLVM, articulated models. 18. Identity
recognition, subspace models, probabilistic linear discriminant analysis,
bilinear models, multi-linear models, multi-factor GPLVM. 19. Kalman
filter, extended Kalman filter, unscented Kalman filter, particle filters.
20. Bag of words, latent Dirichlet allocation, spatial extensions to BoW.


APPENDICES

A. Notation. B. Optimization. C. Linear algebra.

Each part contains illustrative applications including background
subtraction, skin detection, body pose regression, face detection,
pedestrian detection, segmentation, semantic segmentation, stereo vision,
image denoising, image synthesis, shape from silhouette, structured light,
augmented reality tracking, creating visual panoramas, multi-view
reconstruction, 3D morphable models, face recognition, tracking objects in
2D and 3D, SLAM, and object recognition.



--

Dr. Simon J.D. Prince
Department of Computer Science
University College London
Gower Street
London, WC1E 6BT
Tel. 020 7679 3692
Fax. 020 7387 1397

http://pvl.cs.ucl.ac.uk
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From holl at cs.ucsb.edu  Thu Sep  6 10:22:37 2012
From: holl at cs.ucsb.edu (Tobias Hollerer)
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:22:37 -0700
Subject: [4eyes] Reminder: lab meeting today @ noon
In-Reply-To: <504613F3.7050205@cs.ucsb.edu>
References: <504613F3.7050205@cs.ucsb.edu>
Message-ID: <5048DBDD.4010404@cs.ucsb.edu>


BYOL. Reminder of remote attendance option:

> Join meeting: https://www4.gotomeeting.com/join/880095111
> Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) - a headset is recommended.
> Or, call in using your telephone. Dial +1 (773) 897-3015 Access Code: 
> 880-095-111
> Audio PIN: Shown after joining the meeting Meeting ID: 880-095-111 

Cheers,

     Tobias

On 9/4/2012 7:45 AM, Tobias Hollerer wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> last week, we loosely planned for our next lab meeting to be today.
> However, for several scheduling reasons, we will now hold it this
> Thursday, Sept. 6th, at noon (2003 Elings).
>
> Jonathan will go over the documentation of his mobile augmented
> reality framework and give us a crash course in how to use it. I hope
> that everyone interested in AR will be able to make it.
>
> We'll make the session a GotoMeeting as well in the hope that people
> away from the lab (on internship or else) might be able to join it.
>
> Cheers,
>
>     Tobias
>
>
>
>
>

-- 
Tobias Hollerer
Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5110

holl at cs.ucsb.edu, Office: (805)284-9395, Fax: (805)893-8553


From cmsweeney at cs.ucsb.edu  Thu Sep  6 10:53:47 2012
From: cmsweeney at cs.ucsb.edu (Chris Sweeney)
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 10:53:47 -0700
Subject: [4eyes] 3D Rendering on the Web
Message-ID: <CAB_h4O45ssJ5ibepJKxQ96ehq2aqXq1C-3sQS9_RC4zfYrxZbQ@mail.gmail.com>

http://mrdoob.github.com/three.js/

I found this rendering library for JS that allows you to do 3D in the
browser easily. There seems to be a lot of hype about this particular
library right now. I really like the idea of being able to share models or
data that we create on the web like this. There are several different
shaders and renderers that it can use, so you can do some neat
computationally intensive things (for being in the browser) since the
rendering will be local on your graphics card. It can also load models from
a variety of standalone programs (e.g. Blender).

I personally am interested in building an API using this that allows people
to easily put point clouds (and camera poses) online... sort of like
Meshlab on the web. This library allows you to use WebGL, so the transition
if you're familiar with OpenGL won't be too steep. It can also conveniently
use JSON to import models. Let me know if anybody is interested in
collaborating to create such an API

-Chris
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From holl at cs.ucsb.edu  Thu Sep  6 13:09:09 2012
From: holl at cs.ucsb.edu (Tobias Hollerer)
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 13:09:09 -0700
Subject: [4eyes] Jon's ISMAR '12 paper (submitted version, not camera-ready)
Message-ID: <504902E5.3070202@cs.ucsb.edu>


http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~holl/ISMAR12-paper106.pdf

-- 
Tobias Hollerer
Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5110

holl at cs.ucsb.edu, Office: (805)284-9395, Fax: (805)893-8553


From daniel at cs.ucsb.edu  Fri Sep  7 14:20:05 2012
From: daniel at cs.ucsb.edu (Daniel Vaquero)
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 14:20:05 -0700
Subject: [4eyes] GoToMeeting Invitation - Daniel's Defense Practice
Message-ID: <CALcu0+S3KjZ+_D62Zu6uFvK7FWkFVHoqG4i4jpCRuaJEN1wa+w@mail.gmail.com>

Hi everyone,

I am going to have a practice talk for my defense tomorrow at 2pm.
I'll be in the trailer in case anybody would like to attend in person,
but since it's a weekend I created a meeting on GoToMeeting for remote
access. The details are below. I understand it is a Saturday but I
appreciate getting some feedback if you can make it :-)

Thanks,

Daniel

========================================

1.  Please join my meeting, Sep 8, 2012 at 2:00 PM PDT.
https://www4.gotomeeting.com/join/684445903

2.  Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) - a headset is
recommended. Or, call in using your telephone.

Dial  1 (213) 493-0602
Access Code: 684-445-903
Audio PIN: Shown after joining the meeting

Meeting Password: 4eyes
Meeting ID: 684-445-903

GoToMeeting?
Online Meetings Made Easy?


From mturk at cs.ucsb.edu  Mon Sep 10 10:35:43 2012
From: mturk at cs.ucsb.edu (Matthew Turk)
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 10:35:43 -0700
Subject: [4eyes] Daniel's dissertation defense starting now.... CS
	conference room
Message-ID: <504E24EF.7000701@cs.ucsb.edu>



From holl at cs.ucsb.edu  Mon Sep 17 10:05:16 2012
From: holl at cs.ucsb.edu (Tobias Hollerer)
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:05:16 -0700
Subject: [4eyes] Fwd: NYTimes.com: Despite a Slowdown,
 Smartphone Advances Are Still Ahead
In-Reply-To: <201209171614.q8HGEZoD003018@letters.cs.ucsb.edu>
References: <201209171614.q8HGEZoD003018@letters.cs.ucsb.edu>
Message-ID: <5057584C.9030604@cs.ucsb.edu>


NYT reporter interviewed me on Friday for this. 40 minutes of chatting 
about
cutting-edge AR research and the technology's future potential results 
in one
very generic quote :)

Cheers,

     Tobias


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Reply-To: 	holl at cs.ucsb.edu
To: 	holl at cs.ucsb.edu



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From jventura at cs.ucsb.edu  Tue Sep 18 12:49:46 2012
From: jventura at cs.ucsb.edu (Jonathan Ventura)
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:49:46 -0700
Subject: [4eyes] End of an Era BBQ
Message-ID: <47DC0A3D-1F19-45AA-BCE8-ACD901F86E90@cs.ucsb.edu>

Hello everyone,

There has been talk of having one last get-together so those who are leaving soon can have a chance to properly say goodbye.  What do you say to a barbecue at 5pm on Thursday at Goleta Beach?  I hope this is a convenient time for everyone who is around.  Significant others and children are welcome too.  I will show up a little early and stake out a grill.  Perhaps everyone who wants to come could bring something to eat or drink.  I will bring hot dogs and buns.  Daniel has volunteered to bring some vegetarian food.

-Jon

From holl at cs.ucsb.edu  Wed Sep 19 08:48:58 2012
From: holl at cs.ucsb.edu (Tobias Hollerer)
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:48:58 -0700
Subject: [4eyes] Reminder: PhD Defense - Svetlin Bostandjiev today, 3pm
References: <504E602D.2080700@cs.ucsb.edu>
Message-ID: <CC8EB8E9-9869-42BF-8CD7-9D99FBBE429E@cs.ucsb.edu>





Begin forwarded message:

> From: Katie Ellis <kellis at cs.ucsb.edu>
> Date: September 10, 2012 2:48:29 PM PDT
> To: grads at cs.ucsb.edu, faculty at cs.ucsb.edu
> Subject: [FACULTY] PhD Defense - Svetlin Bostandjiev
> 
> PhD Defense
> Svetlin Bostandjiev
> Wednesday, September 19, 2012
> 3:00 PM
> Harold Frank Hall 1132
> 
> Committee: Tobias H?llerer (chair), Divyakant Agrawal, Xifeng Yan, John O?Donovan
>  
> Title: Bridging Social and Semantic Computing -- Design and Evaluation of User Interfaces for Hybrid Systems
>  
> Abstract:
> The evolution of the Web brought new interesting problems to computer scientists in the fields of social and semantic computing. Social computing is related to two major paradigms: computations carried out by a large amount of people in a collective intelligence fashion (i.e. wikis), and performing computations on social networks (i.e. social network analysis). On the other hand, semantic computing focuses on assigning meaning to data and enabling computers to process and integrate it (i.e. natural language processing, data mining, etc.). This dissertation delves into the intersection of social and semantic computing. We present new hybrid techniques showing how the two domains benefit each other or are used together to produce better content. These synergistic techniques introduce an extra level of complexity that can be alleviated by intelligent user interfaces. User interfaces not only increase the transparency and explanation in systems where social and semantic computing are used together, but also serve as input modalities that additionally boost the quality of the content produced by the hybrid techniques. We exemplify our contributions with three case studies of novel user interfaces that utilize social and semantic computing.
>  
> Everyone Welcome.
> 
> -- 
> Katie Ellis
> Graduate Advisor
> Department of Computer Science 
> University of California at Santa Barbara
> (805) 893-4322
> kellis at cs.ucsb.edu 
> _______________________________________________
> faculty mailing list
> faculty at lists.cs.ucsb.edu
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From jventura at cs.ucsb.edu  Thu Sep 20 12:20:27 2012
From: jventura at cs.ucsb.edu (Jonathan Ventura)
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:20:27 -0700
Subject: [4eyes] BBQ Location
Message-ID: <5DA3983C-FC7B-49A0-97D7-96E64E7934EE@cs.ucsb.edu>

Hi all,
John and I will try to set up near the horseshoe pits a little before 5pm.  See you all there!
-Jon

--
Jonathan Ventura, Ph.D.
Project Scientist

Department of Computer Science
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5110

Office: (805) 893 2614
Mobile: (805) 689 5006
Web: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~jventura

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From saiphcita at gmail.com  Mon Sep 24 09:52:27 2012
From: saiphcita at gmail.com (Saiph Savage)
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:52:27 -0700
Subject: [4eyes] iphone 5 satire video
Message-ID: <CAGEqvmJL5kU5KROMCupZLESu8+hoR4MoJVMy4rQd5Uus4sS4ew@mail.gmail.com>

fun & well done  iphone 5 parody video:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNBP18nrRdw

-- 
Saiph Savage
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From dianna at cs.ucsb.edu  Mon Sep 24 16:29:22 2012
From: dianna at cs.ucsb.edu (Dianna Han)
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:29:22 -0700
Subject: [4eyes] Thesis LaTex Template
Message-ID: <CAJvE0k76z2No+r2ztWsTYQ8evgiW35Tb81DQO2B5gNq+zYBB4g@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,

Sorry for the group email - I wonder if we have a LaTex template for the
Ph.D thesis available somewhere? I looked over the Graduate Division
website and could only find Word template, which is obviously not a first
choice.

Thank you very much!

-Dianna
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From angus.forbes at mat.ucsb.edu  Mon Sep 24 19:49:34 2012
From: angus.forbes at mat.ucsb.edu (Angus Forbes)
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:49:34 -0700
Subject: [4eyes] Thesis LaTex Template
In-Reply-To: <CAJvE0k76z2No+r2ztWsTYQ8evgiW35Tb81DQO2B5gNq+zYBB4g@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAJvE0k76z2No+r2ztWsTYQ8evgiW35Tb81DQO2B5gNq+zYBB4g@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAGLijVNF+5OR_a8V6J4TwS=79jDtTPp0zoAPBs+jaDp8q-qOoQ@mail.gmail.com>

http://math.berkeley.edu/~vojta/tex/ucbthesis-phd.html

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Dianna Han <dianna at cs.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Sorry for the group email - I wonder if we have a LaTex template for the
> Ph.D thesis available somewhere? I looked over the Graduate Division website
> and could only find Word template, which is obviously not a first choice.
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> -Dianna
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ilab-users mailing list
> Ilab-users at lists.cs.ucsb.edu
> https://lists.cs.ucsb.edu/mailman/listinfo/ilab-users

From mturk at cs.ucsb.edu  Tue Sep 25 12:06:42 2012
From: mturk at cs.ucsb.edu (Matthew Turk)
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:06:42 -0700
Subject: [4eyes] Doodle: Link for poll "Fall 2012 Four Eyes Lab meetings"
In-Reply-To: <CAM1Gx_mbYREJh6ik-Sifzfe5r2G30sd1pDffjoskd0vu4yfTQw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <64045878.124531.1348597162307.POLL_ADMIN_PARTICIPATELINK.doodle@worker1>
	<CAM1Gx_mbYREJh6ik-Sifzfe5r2G30sd1pDffjoskd0vu4yfTQw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAM1Gx_nQvNLM4PxifrzdgZ84xPOuYQOFimN4+m_5bO1LjwphaA@mail.gmail.com>

Four Eyes Lab folks,

We would like to schedule this quarter's lab meetings, which we'll
plan to have most weeks. Please go to the Doodle poll (TODAY, if
possible!) and indicate when you are, and are not, available on
Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays this quarter:

http://www.doodle.com/ixtfkwtstsqiw8qh?lt=4

Thanks,
    Matthew and Tobias

From vfragoso at cs.ucsb.edu  Tue Sep 25 12:37:29 2012
From: vfragoso at cs.ucsb.edu (Victor Fragoso)
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:37:29 -0700
Subject: [4eyes] ICIP practice talk
Message-ID: <1587E6CB-035A-4322-A968-257B7BD795FF@cs.ucsb.edu>

Hello everyone, 

I will have a practice talk for ICIP's best student paper award nomination on Thursday at 2pm. 
The talk is about  my work on binary descriptors and Noncooperative games. 
I'd really appreciate your feedback.

Best,


-- Victor Fragoso






From vfragoso at cs.ucsb.edu  Tue Sep 25 12:39:51 2012
From: vfragoso at cs.ucsb.edu (Victor Fragoso)
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:39:51 -0700
Subject: [4eyes] ICIP practice talk (MAT's conf. room)
Message-ID: <EBE959A6-365B-44F8-B1B3-BB1D708264C4@cs.ucsb.edu>

Sorry, I forgot to mention that it is in MAT's Conf. Room in Elings Hall
-- Victor Fragoso





From saiphcita at gmail.com  Wed Sep 26 11:07:37 2012
From: saiphcita at gmail.com (Saiph Savage)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:07:37 -0700
Subject: [4eyes] Fun wearable computing
Message-ID: <CAGEqvm+yFKHjpeOPi6dEZh8vK1ATJybmGnRp+Lsmm5Nj5MSVnw@mail.gmail.com>

I was enjoying this pinterest page of wearable technology:
http://pinterest.com/caroltpin/wearable-tech/
Some are very fun & inspiring. is anybody else in the lab interested in
pursuing research in wearable computing? It could be a fun collaborations.
I have some project ideas. Let me know.

cheers
-- 
Saiph Savage
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From mturk at cs.ucsb.edu  Wed Sep 26 14:55:21 2012
From: mturk at cs.ucsb.edu (Matthew Turk)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:55:21 -0700
Subject: [4eyes] Friday 2pm lab meetings;
	Victor's practice talk tomorrow @ 2pm
Message-ID: <41c501cd9c31$9febe560$dfc3b020$@cs.ucsb.edu>

It is looking like the best time for lab meetings this quarter is Fridays at
2:00pm. This week, we have Victor's ICIP practice talk tomorrow at 2:00pm,
so let's treat that as a lab meeting - I'm not sure if there will be other
items of business or not. (And if you're coming, come on time - Victor's
talk is only 10 minutes long!)

 

                Matthew

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From cmsweeney at cs.ucsb.edu  Wed Sep 26 20:10:39 2012
From: cmsweeney at cs.ucsb.edu (Chris Sweeney)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:10:39 -0700
Subject: [4eyes] MIT Indoor Mapping System
Message-ID: <CAB_h4O4V=B8b1cqcJUwh54CSbYUEfJ9_RGeSRqrsBpjVqZC1Bg@mail.gmail.com>

They use a kinect to create building maps. Nothing absurdly new here, just
a neat example of SLAM with the kinect (and a pretty cool video to motivate
it)

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/automatic-building-mapping-0924.html

-Chris
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From mturk at cs.ucsb.edu  Thu Sep 27 13:43:07 2012
From: mturk at cs.ucsb.edu (Matthew Turk)
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:43:07 -0700
Subject: [4eyes] FW: 2012 Visualizing Global Marathon
In-Reply-To: <C709D2E4-79FB-4472-B483-853C3D381D4C@seedmediagroup.com>
References: <C709D2E4-79FB-4472-B483-853C3D381D4C@seedmediagroup.com>
Message-ID: <1cc5001cd9cf0$b34d3cc0$19e7b640$@cs.ucsb.edu>

FYI

 

From: Alexandra Pappas [mailto:pappas at seedmediagroup.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 1:33 PM
To: Charlene Manuel
Subject: 2012 Visualizing Global Marathon

 

Dear Partners,

 

I'm excited to announce the 2012 Visualizing Global Marathon
<http://visualizing.org/marathon2012> ! From November 9-11, students around
the world will immerse themselves in the field of data visualization, catch
workshops and presentations from data visualization experts, connect with
students from different cities, and collectively work to solve some of the
world's most complex issues. Students can participate virtually or at one of
our hosted meetups, and we'll be awarding more than $10,000 in prizes. 

 

Registration is now open! Last year, the majority of student participants
heard about the event from their professors, so we would greatly appreciate
if you can spread the word to your students and colleagues. Attached is an
invitation that can be easily forwarded along or posted to a blog/website.
Also, as our Academic Partner <http://www.visualizing.org/partners> , once
your students register, we'll promote your university on the Marathon's
registration page <http://www.visualizing.org/marathon2012/register> . 

 

And it's also not too late to host a meetup. Please contact me for more
information, or if we have already been in contact to finalize details so
that we can open registration. 

 

Thank you for all of your support. We hope that you and your students will
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From saiphcita at gmail.com  Thu Sep 27 18:10:44 2012
From: saiphcita at gmail.com (Saiph Savage)
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:10:44 -0700
Subject: [4eyes] Brain controlled bunny tail
Message-ID: <CAGEqvmJ5Y3PXyM3Kh3MgwQPdnc5qiBYQGaKYsfo0ovUO+d9UmQ@mail.gmail.com>

I thought this was cool:
Neurowear is working on this brainwave controlled tail that moves according
to your mood:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvHcBq7UaY0
I think they have it only out as a concept at the moment.  I am unsure how
they are doing the mood detection ( a thingy on the forehead, or some other
kind of sensor?).  Apparently it is looking to be integrated with your
phone as well, so that your moods are also related  to  locations & would
be possible to see  where other people felt a certain way, or how certain
parts of the city can be defined in terms of sentiment. I feel that it
might be frustrating as a user that you are not aware how the system is
interpreting your mood, and if it is indeed correlated to how you feel
(since it is in your back) But that might also add to the fun of it. ...

They also made a  hat with a tail, in a less sophisticated concept video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR8l_xdySVk


Cheers,Happy Weekend!
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Saiph Savage
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From cmsweeney at cs.ucsb.edu  Fri Sep 28 10:54:42 2012
From: cmsweeney at cs.ucsb.edu (Chris Sweeney)
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 10:54:42 -0700
Subject: [4eyes] Reading Group meeting
Message-ID: <CAB_h4O7TgV6BgYqCcDPFaQZprTX8S3Lk_74M06YU5OCEx4iAMg@mail.gmail.com>

Hey everyone,

Last year we had a weekly reading group where we could present and discuss
research papers relevant to your work or the labs work. I think it was a
really great forum for exposing people to new work, and also great for
stimulating new research ideas. We're going to start it up again ASAP, so
please take a minute the choose the 1 hr time slots that work best for you
(choose as many as you are available for):

http://doodle.com/yf22e45ircppndxv

Pradeep -- feel free to forward this to any of your students that may be
interested!

-Chris
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