Stupid thesis will be defeated

Stupid thesis will be defeated
Have your speaker on.

Thanks Danno, I'm inspired.

Abi-station 似顔絵 face drawing

I made this picture several years ago on a japanese website. Recently I digged it out and used it on my MSN and was asked by several friends how I drew it. But I couldn't remember which website it was.

Coincidentally, I was looking at caricature generation for my research and came across this Web Picasso paper by a Japanese researcher and he has a website in Japanese with some drawings and explanations. Suddenly I recall this word "似顔絵" was the same word on the website that I used to generate this above picture. I googled it and there it is at the top:

似顔絵

The only problem now is that it is all in Japanese, trial and error will get you there.

Rabobank 6.6% online saving account

The second best after Bankwest 6.8% 1-year introductory offer. My one year offer will expire in October, then I may switch it to this one.

It also allows its clients to go straight into wholesale managed fund with 0.75% entry fee, zero ongoing maintenance fee and a tiny $250 entry value.

Report on The Australia (29/5/07) here:
Rabobank goes retail with a high-interest internet account

It boosts with very high standard of internet security, voted the safest bank in the world in 2006. The online login system is not the simple client number and password form boxes, but requires a one time access code generated by a Digipass hardware based on your pin number. And each Digipass hardware response to only one pin, ie your password! Read more here on RaboPlus security.
Reading that I'm now a bit puzzle! Do they actually send me a hardware?? I shall see.

Also it's one of the top 20 world largest financial institution. Sounds pretty good!

The website is at raboplus.com.au.

Some interesting vision and graphics work

Eyeball reflection of the world


Radial Imaging Systems


Motion Magnification

Becoming a Savvy Scholar Tutorials

MIT OpenCourseWare | Materials Science and Engineering | 3.093 Information Exploration: Becoming a Savvy Scholar, Fall 2006 | Tutorials

Buffalos save calf from lions and crocs

Found this video on spinboy's stuff: Nature rocks!. Very cool!

Vandalism in front of my house

That's my unit through the broken glass hole. The other 2 bus stops at UWA were also damaged.

Malaysiakini exclusive interview with Dr Mahathir

Three parts video on Malaysiakini:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Hillarys

They got KL wrong! Shame on them.

We went to a cafe at Hillarys boat harbour after AMWA youth went to AQWA.

More photos on amwa website.

Microsoft Libra

I stumbled upon this Libra search, looks like it is the Microsoft version of Google Scholar.

It has a good breakdown on computer science fields, the conferences in each field, the number of publications in the search and their number of citations.

Here are links to Peter, Amitava, and myself.

The browse by author feature is pretty cool. A straight fight of citation. Andrew Zisserman is at the top of computer vision, followed by Faugeras!

Food

Indian vegetarian

My office space

A fish eye view of my office.
Ok, stop playing with my phone and get back to work!

Jason juggling

Yeah! This is really cool. I can blog straight from my k800i. Yes, without computer.
And jason happened to come to my desk and i can test this. :-D

Test 2

More

The tree

Testing blogging from mobile phone.

Italy here I come

The long anticipated email finally came today at 3:30pm WST. It was supposed to be announced on 1 May, and I thought my paper is rejected because I didn't get the "notification of acceptance" on the date.

Congratulations - your paper #1569032579 ('Projective Transformations for Image Transition Animations') for International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing 2007 has been accepted for ICIAP 2007 Oral Session.

Yes! My second paper (yes,only) is accepted. I'm so happy!
ICIAP is a 2nd tier conference according to CORE ranking of ICT conferences. And it'll be in Italy which is somewhere I have never really thought of setting my foot on before. Oh well, I never really think of going particularly anywhere anyway. Haha!

The conference will be on 10-14 Sept 2007, held in the Palazzo Ducale (dated 1634 DC, Baroque Ducal Palace) in Modena "the capital of engines" as it is the home of many famous sports car manufacturers (eg. Ferrari). A tourist page of Modena is here.

Searching and reading about the touristy places makes me excited.

Interactive Pavement Drawing Illusions - Mighty Optical Illusions

Interactive Pavement Drawing Illusions - Mighty Optical Illusions

The next level of Super Horatio

Here's a MSN conversation Danno and I had before the Super Horatio Theme Song come to live!

"Danno the Eternal Smartass" says:
you're gonna kill me...
(i)TzuYen - does research, eats vegies says:
uh?
(i)TzuYen - does research, eats vegies says:
why?
"Danno the Eternal Smartass" says:
you'll see in the next hour or so!
(i)TzuYen - does research, eats vegies says:
The super horatio blog?
"Danno the Eternal Smartass" says:
let's just say super horatio has gone to a new level
"Danno the Eternal Smartass" says:
yeah i'm gonna post something as soon as i finish it.
(i)TzuYen - does research, eats vegies says:
Haha! Well, I shall see.
"Danno the Eternal Smartass" says:
damn. I look for jobs to avoid work. I do super horatio stuff to avoid applying for jobs!
..........
"Danno the Eternal Smartass" says:
this SH thing had better turn out good!
..........
"Danno the Eternal Smartass" says:
super horatio is coming.
(i)TzuYen - does research, eats vegies says:
done?
"Danno the Eternal Smartass" says:
just compressing it
(i)TzuYen - does research, eats vegies says:
What? A video?
"Danno the Eternal Smartass" says:
:P
(i)TzuYen - does research, eats vegies says:
Oh oh....
"Danno the Eternal Smartass" says:
hehehe
"Danno the Eternal Smartass" says:
uploading now
"Danno the Eternal Smartass" says:
there you go, link in my name
"Danno the Eternal Smartass" says:
or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJzhfvIHQpg

Here's the ingenious work our resident joker/musician Danno did:

Click here for Lyrics.

Inversions by ScottKim

Very cool Inversions by ScottKim.

Tear in my eyes

Dearest to my heart, the people that I love,
I'll take some time now, I pause, and I make a choice,
about what my life is really for.

Prepare tissues.


(Nick, thought of you because of these videos)