So to start with Windows Phone 7, I will post a blog on the development of my completed interface and the code to make it later but I have got a basic doodle pad running that is quite a satisfying start for my first day of Windows Phone 7 development.

Well on there sample image:

Left is original image, right is the grabcut output

Now yets try that on some more difficult more detailed images of similar scene object... a horse

So on the left is the original image, and the middle is the generated image, with a box around only the horse and finally on the right is with the horse and the person selected within the box.

Well as you can see the results 'kind of' work but this is the best of the experiments i ran on the video frames not sure they are good enough for my current idea...

http://www.multimediasignalprocessing.com

Academic schedule is really impressive:

 

11 April, 2011	Theme: Computational Signal Processing
	Statistical and Probabilistic Foundations	Prof. Richard Everson University of Exeter, UK
	Principal and Independent Components  Analysis	Prof. Richard Everson University of Exeter, UK
	Multimodal Source Separation	Prof. Jonathan Chambers Loughborough University,UK
	Multi-scale Signal Processing	Prof. Fionn Murtagh Science Foundation, Ireland
12 April, 2011	Theme: Signal and Object Tracking
	Particle Filters	Prof. Simon Godsill University of Cambridge, UK
	Hidden Markov Models	Dr. Philip Jackson University of Surrey, UK
	Video Tracking: An Overview	Prof. Andrea Cavallaro Queen Mary University of London, UK
	Object Localisation and Tracking	Dr. Ian Reid University of Oxford, UK
13 April, 2011	Exhibition at Ford College
	Plenary speech: Security Imaging and Printing	Dr. Stephen Pollard Hewlett Packard Research Labs, UK
	Plenary speech: Convolutional Neural Networks for Facial Image Analysis	Dr. Christophe Garcia France Telecom, France
	Exhibition of commercial products and services
	Academic research, poster presentation
14 April, 2011	Theme: Machine Vision
	Low Level Vision	Prof. Roy Davies Royal Holloway, UK
	3D Imaging and Interpretation	(to be confirmed)
	Embedded Vision Systems	Apical Imaging
	Machine Vision Toolkits	Mr. Chris Baldwin Stemmer Imaging
	Machine Vision Toolkits	Dr. Julie Busby Multipix Imaging
15 April, 2011	Theme: Image and Video Understanding
	Colour Perception and Image Analysis	Prof. Maria Petrou Imperial College, UK
	Object Detection and Recognition	Prof. Andrew Zisserman University of Oxford, UK
	Multiple View Geometry	Prof. Marc Pollefeys ETH, Switzerland
	3D Localisation and Mapping	Dr. Andrew Calway University of Bristol, UK
16 July, 2011	Theme: Multimedia Data Management
	Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval	Prof. Stefan Ruger Open University, UK
	Video Coding	Prof. Mohammed Ghanbari University of Essex, UK
	Learning and Performance Evaluation	Prof. Sameer Singh Loughborough University, UK

Copy from http://www.multimediasignalprocessing.com/school/programme

Isn't it beautiful ?

Think back 3 years iOS was released when phones got a kick up the ass a user interface designed around touch also gave a first good app store and many other features that made Microsoft think about there mobile os.

Think back 2 years Android joins the world an open source smart phone OS that introduced a very fast updating phone industry beyond what apple could compete with.

So where are we now, all new phones on the market are smart phones majority of which are touch screen devices, yes we are seeing a resurgence of the slide out keyboard but the touch is at the heart of what they are doing.

So where does sketch come into this, when you pull your phone out your pocket and you hit the google search box to find what you are after on your phone you go back to an old fashion qwerty keyboard that you have to press the keys and hope the gobbledy gook text makes enough sense for your phone to find what you are after. Or you set of few the stylish yet numerous screens of menu's to find what you are after.

This is where the world changes with a massive number of touch aka sketchable interfaces in the hands of the common consumer it is easy to see how an intuitive searching style would help. My work currently relates around videos and how we can search them using sketch the concepts may be simple but the tasks are numerous and great, we may only be able to search for a blob moving right but soon enough we may be able to quickly and easily use a sketch of many other basic objects and add more detail to a search that makes more powerful results possible.

I hope this makes you understand why sketch is important research and keep track of my work and many others in the field.

Also played around with some Linux  environmental variables that allows you to switch between platforms and have hostname dependent configurations may come in useful for anyone working with multiple servers.

switch(`hostname`)

      case "workstation**":

            setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH "/MachineType/opencv:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"

            breaksw

      case "Sever**Ubuntu":

            setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH "/MachineType/opencv:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"

            breaksw

endsw

Note: * is used as wildcard so all servers of that type use the same config

Just a little logon script to change between libraries in my case was in ~/.cshrc