Hello eceblogger readers! This time we have a new video about Project54 and some of the interesting things that some of us are working on here. The video shows a brief description of our driving simulator, how the Project54 system is being used and tested in the simulator and some research studies that are currently …
Monthly Archive: September 2007
Sep
27
Project54 for the NH Marine Patrol
On August 23 Project54 was installed for the first time on a NH Marine Patrol boat. This installation is Project54′s first attempt to adapt to the marine environment and is the result of close collaboration with NH Marine Patrol officers. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Project54, the system was created to improve …
Sep
26
Using HP Deskjet duplexing with Windows Vista
I have an HP Deskjet 6540 with a duplexer unit. When I upgraded my computer to Vista I could not use the duplexer. There was no way to select double-sided printing in programs such as Word and Acrobat. This problem can be fixed by going to Printers in the Control Panel, right-clicking on the HP …
Sep
24
Conference in Belgium
Another successful conference is over. This time professor Andrew Kun, Tim Paek of Microsoft Research, and I had a paper at Interspeech 2007 which took place in Antwerp, Belgium from 27th to 31st of August. The conference was very well organized, and a lot of people from all over the world attended it. We saw …
Sep
21
SIGdial 2007
Andrew Kun have already made a post with the description of SIGdial 2007. Here I would like to mention my experience as a presenter. I had a presentation on the second day of the workshops (the event was two days long). On the first day I checked if I can use their computer for my …
Sep
19
Seeing Machines demo
Project54 hosted Shaun Cotter of Seeing Machines, who demonstrated the Seeing Machines eye tracker called faceLAB. The eye tracker consists of two cameras, a laptop running image processing software, and an IR illuminator. You can see the entire setup in this picture: The two cameras are sitting on the laptop, and between them you can see IR diodes …
Sep
14
.Net Architect to speak at UNH
I have the “father of CLR (Common Language Runtime)”, Jim Miller, coming in to speak at UNH on Oct 9 12:30-2:00 in Kingsbury N101. Really brilliant guy and partly responsible for the birth of .NET. He definitely is the guy to speak with regards to anything .NET related. There topics that he may talk about, …
Sep
14
MITCH at Tilburg University
Several attendees at Sigdial 2007, e.g. co-chair Harry Bunt and local chair Simon Keiser, were from Tilburg University. The list of Tilburg people included Piroska Lendvai, who gave a talk on dialogue processing. Piroska also told me about a project she’s just started working on, called MITCH, for Mining for information in texts from the …
Sep
09
Impressions from Sigdial 2007
Immediately following Interspeech 2007, Alex Shyrokov, Zeljko Medenica and myself attended Sigdial 2007. Alex and I had a paper at the conference, written in collaboration with Peter Heeman. Alex was in charge of giving the presentation and he did an excellent job. The venue for Sigdial 2007 was the University of Antwerp, specifically a building …
Sep
05
Impressions from Interspeech 2007
Hi all, Last week I attended Interspeech 2007, along with Zeljko Medenica and Alex Shyrokov. Zeljko and I had a paper at Interspeech, along with Tim Paek of Microsoft Research. This was a pretty large conference, with around 1,200 attendees from all over the world. The conference was somewhat selective, with an acceptance rate of just under …