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Arrested Development Drinking Rules

Originally posted by on 16:21 Fri 28 August 2009, last modified 16:40 Fri 28 August 2009.

File under: arrested development drinking games

Do you love Arrested Development? How about drinking? If you haven't thought of combining the two yet, this is just for you! read more...

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Discrete Orthonormal Moments

Originally posted by on 15:59 Sun 27 April 2008, last modified 08:05 Mon 17 November 2008.

File under: image processing math moments objective-c phd programming shape description

Shape description by image moments is a popular topic in image processing. Standard geometric moments are based on a non-orthogonal basis, which has introduced some problems for image reconstruction. Orthogonal moments such as Zernike and Legendre Moments which use orthogonal polynomials have been introduced to overcome this problem. These however are based on continuous polynomials, and are not really suited to digital images processing which is inherently rooted in a discrete domain. Hence, a new type of discrete orthogonal moments, based on Tchebichef polynomials has emerged.

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Using Git

Originally posted by on 15:35 Wed 6 February 2008, last modified 12:45 Sat 9 February 2008.

File under: 3rd party tools git phd programming scm software

Source Code Management (SCM) is one of those things that computer scientists and geeks love to talk about, and I think I've just worked out why! When you get a new SCM tool working, and the coin drops - it's awesome! It's like the most impressive Hello World ever. Previously I've used Concurrent Versions System (CVS), which is the only time I've actively collaborated on a software project, and when I started my PhD I used Subversion. I'm a follower of fashion when it comes to SCMs, and as you've probably seen, Git has been spotted all over the internet. So I thought I'd investigate, and this is what I've discovered after using it for around 3 months.

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Half way there and only 10 months late!

Originally posted by on 13:07 Mon 28 January 2008, last modified 13:07 Mon 28 January 2008.

File under: phd

Well, after six months, fourteen thousand and fifty five words, seven thousand three hundred and seventy six lines of code, and many late nights and early mornings, I've finally handed in my mini-thesis. Woo Hoo! read more...

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This is why I love OmniGraffle 4

Originally posted by on 16:28 Thu 17 January 2008, last modified 16:33 Thu 17 January 2008.

File under: software

OmniGroup's software package, OmniGraffle 4 is hands down the best application ever! When it comes to creating figures that is. Here's why: read more...

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Getting stuck in a loop

Originally posted by on 14:46 Thu 27 September 2007, last modified 18:27 Sat 15 December 2007.

File under: object segmentation objective-c phd programming

I've recently been battling with an algorithm, or rather bugs in my implementation of an algorithm, to isolate homogeneous regions in an image. Homogeneous regions? By this we mean areas of identical intensity (the pixel values are the same). As humans we can do this easily; but for a computer, it's harder than it might seem at first... read more...

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