ICASSP2012 Poster Estimating the spin of a table tennis ball using inverse co...Toru Tamaki
Tamaki Toru, Haoming Wang, Bisser Raytchev, Kazufumi Kaneda, Yukihiko Ushiyama: "Estimating the spin of a table tennis ball using inverse compositional image alignment", Proc. of ICASSP 2012 ; 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing,pp. 1457-1460 (2012 03), Kyoto International Conference Center , Kyoto, Japan, March 25-30, 2012.
ICASSP2012 Poster Estimating the spin of a table tennis ball using inverse co...Toru Tamaki
Tamaki Toru, Haoming Wang, Bisser Raytchev, Kazufumi Kaneda, Yukihiko Ushiyama: "Estimating the spin of a table tennis ball using inverse compositional image alignment", Proc. of ICASSP 2012 ; 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing,pp. 1457-1460 (2012 03), Kyoto International Conference Center , Kyoto, Japan, March 25-30, 2012.
Begin maart was er de eerste samenkomst van TransLab Kampus: individuen, groepen, initiatiefnemers en verenigingen uit de Kempen met interesse voor transitie en deeleconomie die kennis en ervaringen willen uitwisselen. Jef Van Eyck licht in deze presentatie de voorgeschiedenis toe.
De uitdagingen van het lokaal cultuurbeleid in een veranderende samenlevingAvansa Kempen
Socius-medewerkers Gie van den Eeckhaut bracht zijn verhaal op de Kempense Cultuurwerkersdag over het hedendaagse lokaal cultuurbeleid. Hij schetste kort wat democratie inhoudt en vertelde over de verschillende bestuursmodellen doorheen de geschiedenis. Vervolgens ging hij in op de gevolgen daarvan op een lokaal bestuur en hoe je als ambtenaar kan inspelen op hedendaagse ontwikkelingen en veranderingen.
Annick Hollebeke (Velt) praatte in het Groen in de Stadproject voor de Turnhoutse wijken Den Brand en Jef Buyckxstraat over Gifvrij tuinieren, of over de natuurrijke tuin
Het Kempens stilteplatform is voor de deelnemers nog steeds een plek voor ontmoeting en uitwisseling en een bron van inspiratie. Blijvend inzetten op sensibilisatie en stiltebeleving is belangrijk en samenwerkingen stimuleren over sectoren heen is nodig. Tenslotte hield men een pleidooi om op intergemeentelijk niveau verder samen te werken rond ruimtelijke ontwikkeling om zo gebieden die stilte, rust en ruimte kunnen bieden te vrijwaren.
Benieuwd naar de stiltewerking in vogelvlucht? Die vind je hier.
Begin maart was er de eerste samenkomst van TransLab Kampus: individuen, groepen, initiatiefnemers en verenigingen uit de Kempen met interesse voor transitie en deeleconomie die kennis en ervaringen willen uitwisselen. Jef Van Eyck licht in deze presentatie de voorgeschiedenis toe.
De uitdagingen van het lokaal cultuurbeleid in een veranderende samenlevingAvansa Kempen
Socius-medewerkers Gie van den Eeckhaut bracht zijn verhaal op de Kempense Cultuurwerkersdag over het hedendaagse lokaal cultuurbeleid. Hij schetste kort wat democratie inhoudt en vertelde over de verschillende bestuursmodellen doorheen de geschiedenis. Vervolgens ging hij in op de gevolgen daarvan op een lokaal bestuur en hoe je als ambtenaar kan inspelen op hedendaagse ontwikkelingen en veranderingen.
Annick Hollebeke (Velt) praatte in het Groen in de Stadproject voor de Turnhoutse wijken Den Brand en Jef Buyckxstraat over Gifvrij tuinieren, of over de natuurrijke tuin
Het Kempens stilteplatform is voor de deelnemers nog steeds een plek voor ontmoeting en uitwisseling en een bron van inspiratie. Blijvend inzetten op sensibilisatie en stiltebeleving is belangrijk en samenwerkingen stimuleren over sectoren heen is nodig. Tenslotte hield men een pleidooi om op intergemeentelijk niveau verder samen te werken rond ruimtelijke ontwikkeling om zo gebieden die stilte, rust en ruimte kunnen bieden te vrijwaren.
Benieuwd naar de stiltewerking in vogelvlucht? Die vind je hier.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
2. Painter’s Algorithm
• Display polygons in
back-to-front order
• Sort polygons by z-value
-z
– Which vertex?
– O(n log n)
• Problems…
3. Quadtree Algorithm
• Sort polygons
• Subdivide screen until each region
contains one or zero edges
• Invented by John Warnock in 1969
4. Quadtree Algorithm
• Sort polygons
• Subdivide screen until each region
contains one or zero edges
• Invented by John Warnock in 1969
5. Quadtree Algorithm
• Sort polygons
• Subdivide screen until each region
contains one or zero edges
• Invented by John Warnock in 1969
6. Quadtree Algorithm
• Sort polygons
• Subdivide screen until each region
contains one or zero edges
• Invented by John Warnock in 1969
7. Quadtree Algorithm
• Sort polygons
• Subdivide screen until each region
contains one or zero edges
• Invented by John Warnock in 1969
8. Z-Buffer -far
-far
-far
-far
Key Observation: Each pixel displays -far
-far
color of only one triangle, ignores -far
everything behind it -far
-far
• Don’t need to sort triangles, just find -far
-far
for each pixel the closest triangle -far
• Z-buffer: one fixed or floating point
zbuffer
framebuffer
value per pixel
• Algorithm:
For each rasterized fragment (x,y)
If z > zbuffer(x,y) then
framebuffer(x,y) = fragment color
zbuffer(x,y) = z
9. Z-Buffer -far
-.1
-.2
-.3
Key Observation: Each pixel displays -.4
-.5
color of only one triangle, ignores -.6
everything behind it -.7
-.8
• Don’t need to sort triangles, just find -far
-far
for each pixel the closest triangle -far
• Z-buffer: one fixed or floating point
zbuffer
framebuffer
value per pixel
• Algorithm:
For each rasterized fragment (x,y)
If z > zbuffer(x,y) then
framebuffer(x,y) = fragment color
zbuffer(x,y) = z
10. Z-Buffer -far
-.1
-.2
-.3
Key Observation: Each pixel displays -.4
-.3
color of only one triangle, ignores -.1
everything behind it -.7
-.8
• Don’t need to sort triangles, just find -far
-far
for each pixel the closest triangle -far
• Z-buffer: one fixed or floating point
zbuffer
framebuffer
value per pixel
• Algorithm:
For each rasterized fragment (x,y)
If z > zbuffer(x,y) then
framebuffer(x,y) = fragment color
zbuffer(x,y) = z
11. Z-Buffer -far
-.1
-.2
-.3
• Get fragment z-values by interpolating -.4
-.3
z-values at vertices during rasterization -.1
-.7
-.8
• Perspective projection destroys -far
-far
z-values, setting them all to –d -far
zbuffer
framebuffer
• Need a perspective distortion that
preserves at least the ordering of
z-values
12. Normalized View Volume
glFrustum(left,right,bottom,top,near,far)
y
y
(-1,1,1)
1
z z (0,0,-far)
y
x x
-1
-1
x
1
z
1 -1
Screen Clip Viewing World Model
W2V Persp View Model
Coords Coords Coords Coords Coords
13. Perspective Projection
screen
y yview
yclip
-z
zview
d
xview
yclip zview / d
xview
1 xview
yview
d zview yview
1 yview yview
zview / d
zview
yview 1 zview
yclip
zview / d d
zview / d
1/ d 0 1
1
16. Normalized Perspective Distortion
y
y
(-1,1,1)
1
z z (0,0,-far)
y
x x
-1
-1
x
1
z
1 -1
2 near right left
right left right left
2 near top bottom
top bottom top bottom
far near 2 far near
far near far near
1 0
17. Hierarchical Z-Buffer
-.2
-.3
-.3
• Invented by Ned Green in 1994 -.5
-.4
-.5
-.5
• Creates a MIP-map of the z-buffer -far
-.6
-.7
-.7
– z-value equal to farthest z-value of -far
-.8
-far
-far
its four children
framebuffer
hierarchical zbuffer
• Before rasterizing a triangle…
– Check z-value of its nearest vertex
against z-value of the smallest
quadtree cell containing the triangle
– If z-test fails, then the entire
triangle is hidden and need not be
rasterized
• Works best when displaying
front-to-back
