Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Using two web cams with Open CV
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Macro Lens: life-size magnification of the eyes
Wednesday, 8 August 2012
quantum computer + entanglement
Sunday, 25 March 2012
Language and Affect
http://pacific.socsci.uva.nl/besnier/pub/Language_and_Affect.pdf
Language and Affect
a article by Niko Besnier, Yale University, around the role of affect in language.
Language and Affect
a article by Niko Besnier, Yale University, around the role of affect in language.
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
polygraph and
Voight Kampff Machine
from: http://thecreatorsproject.com/pt-br/blog/um-breve-passeio-pelos-bastidores-de-blade-runner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygraph
A polygraph (popularly referred to as a lie detector) measures and records several physiological indices such as blood pressure, pulse, respiration, and skin conductivity while the subject is asked and answers a series of questions. The belief is that deceptive answers will produce physiological responses that can be differentiated from those associated with non-deceptive answers.
The polygraph was invented in 1921 by John Augustus Larson, a medical student at the University of California at Berkeley and a police officer of the Berkeley Police Department in Berkeley, California.[1] According to Encyclopædia Britannica, the polygraph was on its 2003 list of greatest inventions, described by the company as inventions that "have had profound effects on human life for better or worse."[2]
Many members of the scientific community consider polygraphy to be pseudoscience.[3] Nonetheless, in some countries polygraphs are used as an interrogation tool with criminal suspects or candidates for sensitive public or private sector employment. US federal government agencies such as the FBI and the CIA and many police departments such as the LAPD use polygraph examinations to interrogate suspects and screen new employees. Within the US federal government, a polygraph examination is also referred to as a psychophysiological detection of deception (PDD) examination.
Sunday, 26 February 2012
MIT quantum
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/quantum-detect-0911.html
"The new findings, being reported this week in the journal Science, are purely theoretical, but Lloyd says that laboratory experiments have already proven the feasibility of both the light sources and the detectors needed for such a quantum-based photodetection system, so he anticipates that within a year it should be possible to build a laboratory-scale system to demonstrate the new concept.
"It should be possible to have at least a proof-of-principle demonstration within six months to a year," Lloyd said.
For example, military applications could include improved night-vision systems, which send out beams of infrared light--invisible to the naked eye--to sweep across a scene, and then use an infrared detector to reconstruct an image from the light that is reflected back. A more efficient system, using the quantum-entanglement effect, would make it much more difficult for an adversary to detect the fact that such a system was being used, because there would be so much less infrared light needed to provide the illumination."
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=human-eyes-entanglement
Spooky Eyes: Using Human Volunteers to Witness Quantum Entanglement
Quantum physicists have a novel plan for an experiment that uses the human eye to detect "spooky action at a distance"
"The new findings, being reported this week in the journal Science, are purely theoretical, but Lloyd says that laboratory experiments have already proven the feasibility of both the light sources and the detectors needed for such a quantum-based photodetection system, so he anticipates that within a year it should be possible to build a laboratory-scale system to demonstrate the new concept.
"It should be possible to have at least a proof-of-principle demonstration within six months to a year," Lloyd said.
For example, military applications could include improved night-vision systems, which send out beams of infrared light--invisible to the naked eye--to sweep across a scene, and then use an infrared detector to reconstruct an image from the light that is reflected back. A more efficient system, using the quantum-entanglement effect, would make it much more difficult for an adversary to detect the fact that such a system was being used, because there would be so much less infrared light needed to provide the illumination."
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=human-eyes-entanglement
Spooky Eyes: Using Human Volunteers to Witness Quantum Entanglement
Quantum physicists have a novel plan for an experiment that uses the human eye to detect "spooky action at a distance"
love-in-idleness
Discussing the paper 'Love-in-idleness' for the CR Greece with Milena Szafir and Ralf Flores. And here a list of shared references...
Andy warhol's experimental film
Andy Warhol's original Screen Tests were originally filmed from early 1964 - November 1966 (GM25). Factory visitors who had potential "star" quality would be seated in front of a tripod mounted camera, asked to be as still as possible, and told not to blink while the camera was running. These film portraits were some of the earliest examples of Warhol's Screen Test series. It is interesting to note that they were filmed in Edey's apartment prior to Warhol's move to the silver Factory where most, but not all, of the other Screen Tests were made. More than 500 Screen Tests were made. In addition to The 13 Most Beautiful Boys, some of the footage was incorporated into other compilation reels such as The 13 Most Beautiful Women (1964) and 50 Fantastics and 50 Personalities (1964). Malanga also used some reels in his multimedia poetry readings called Screen Test Poems in 1965. In 1966 Andy and Gerard also prepared a book together of Screen Test stills from 54 subjects (17 women and 37 men) and Gerard's poetry called Screen Tests/A Diary (NY: Kulchur Press, 1967).
Based on the Voight-Kampff empathy test which tests whether someone is a human or a replicant in "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K Dick
a polygraph-like machine used in the film Blade Runner (re-creation in SL)
Eye Tracking in Video Game Player Experience
Researchers at the Blekinge Institute of Technology conducted an eye tracking experiment on players’ experience with Half Life 2. A specially modified Half Life 2 game was built using the game’s software development kit to correspond with the players’ eye tracking gaze. In the experiment, players do not completely control the game through eye tracking. Instead, a keyboard controls each player’s movement and eye tracking is used to control the first person camera view. The researchers measured the players’ ability to navigate through the game environment using gaze as a steering method. To help contrast the differences, players were allowed to switch between gaze and mouse navigation.
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