Posted in Computer Vision, Computing on March 29, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I think it’s high time we admit it; despite all the work that has been done (and all the complex maths used) on face recognition systems, the performance of these algorithms and systems are abysmal. They certainly do well in lab conditions (error rates of maybe 1 in 50) but in real life conditions, they [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
These are two quotations I got while surfing the web.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter [...]
Posted in Astronomy, Mauritius on March 20, 2007 | 12 Comments »
This week, it’s Sports week at uni and so I have some time for me. So what I’d like to talk about is some basic astronomy for Mauritius.
In Mauritius, we are lucky to have a beautiful night sky. Nearly every night, we can see Orion - the hunter - accompanied by his dog [...]
Posted in Computing, Linux, Mauritius, tagged dapper drake, feisty, Kubuntu, Linux, ubuntu on March 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Well to start with, Feisty Fawn is not out yet; it will be officially released on the 19th of April 2007 but that is just one month away and though I did not move to Edgy on my laptop (am actually upgrading my desktop to Edgy), I’m planning to do so when Fiesty comes out.
Why? [...]
Posted in Computing, Linux on March 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Mplayer is a wonderful little software which like VLC (and even better than VLC it seems) just seems to be able to cope with any codec under the sun - even tried to open an rmvb file with it; it didn’t crash but it got me only the sound.
I first heard of this little player [...]
Posted in Computing, Linux on March 10, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Kdbg is a graphical debugger - more precisely, it is the graphical interface for the excellent gdb debugger. I like a lot Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 for its debugging abilities but Kdbg is just as good. So how do we use it?
First you need to compile your c/c++ source with “-g”(this is very important). E.g
gcc [...]
Posted in Computing, Mauritius, Music, Films & Games on March 10, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Computer Games are one of the most profitable software business in the world. The revenue generated each year is massive - estimated to $ 7 billion in 2005 - and it is now general knowledge that video game sales exceed the Hollywood’s film industry’s annual box office. Yet the problem with games is that [...]
Posted in Computing, My works on March 6, 2007 | No Comments »
You have most probably heard of Virtual Reality (VR). It’s well hyped in movies and it lindeed looks very flashy. Yet, real VR applications are not for tomorrow - u won’t be living in a Matrix-like world anytime soon!
Yet something that is knocking on our doors is Augmented Reality (AR). So what is it? Well [...]
Posted in Computing, Music, Films & Games on March 6, 2007 | No Comments »
A long time back, to make Computer Games, you had to know Assembly language. Eventually the Industry moved to C then C++ and for a time that was good. C++ is very fast and we can stoop very low as well as rise very high. But there are major issues with C++: though I like [...]
Posted in Computing, Mauritius on March 6, 2007 | 3 Comments »
This is something that many people have been waiting for some time - the lauch of Vista in Mautitius and it seems that this week they will be served. According to what I’ve heard, Vista will be presented along with Office 2007 at Swami Viveka…. Exibition Centre, Pailles sometime this week.
There have been lots of [...]
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