Monthly Archive: May 2008

May
07

ECE 992 Speech signal processing – Student presentations, Wednesday 05/07/2008

Hello ecebloggers, Wednesday 05/07/2008 was the second day of the student project presentations, and the day of prosody. The session chair was Yuanli Wang. He did a nice job with power point presentation so we would all know who is presenting. Here’s Yuanli’s picture. I had the honor of breaking the ice today. My presentation …

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May
07

ECE 992 Speech signal processing – Student presentations, Monday 05/05/2008

Hello ecebloggers, Monday was the first day of the student project presentations. The session chair was Ivan Elhart. Here’s Ivan introducing a presenter: Four students were presenting: Zeljko Medenica, Dawe Schwarzenberg, Zach Clifton and Dave Estes. All four presentations were very interesting. Zeljko was trying to estimate pitch in a similar way as people hear. …

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May
06

Smart Routing

If you haven’t heard by now Microsoft’s http://maps.live.com has updated their routing algorithm to account for traffic. Check the box next to “Choose route based on traffic” to recalculated a route with traffic added into the equation. The technology behind this is called Clearflow. Microsoft’s Adaptive Systems and Interaction group has created traffic models to …

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May
05

Microsoft FolderShare – a nice tool for file sharing

Last week, at the suggestion of Tim Paek, I installed Microsoft FolderShare. The web-based service synchronizes the contents of folders on multiple computers. I find this to be useful in two ways. First, it allows me to share files with a Tim. He and I can both create folders on our machines, and instruct FolderShare …

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May
03

St. Paul's AI class visit to Project54 lab

Terry Wardrop of St. Paul’s School has been teaching an artificial intelligence (AI) class for a number of years, and he has been incorporating a visit to the Project54 lab in his class. On Thursday we had the opportunity to host Terry’s AI students again. My graduate students Oszkar Palinko and Zeljko Medenica demonstrated our …

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May
01

Remote Control of the Vehicle Computer

The majority of law enforcement officers patrol areas while using a police vehicle for transportation.  Inside the vehicle, if it has been equipped with the Project54 system, the officer is provided with multiple safe-and-convenient interfaces which allow him or her to complete a variety of daily tasks.  What happens when the officer leaves the vehicle?  …

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May
01

Record Queries over a Cellular Network

One of the most notable features of the Project54 system is its ability to provide officers with an organized means of checking records.  Once the required information on an individual has been entered into the vehicle computer, Project54 forwards the request to the mobile radio of the police cruiser for transmission.  On return, the information …

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May
01

Image Capture and Tagging

Over the past few months I have been developing several applications which allow for image capture, tagging, and organization on PDA and desktop devices, all of which were demonstrated at the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) conference in Boulder, CO in early April.  Last week I had presented the imaging application to Lieutenant Mark Liebl …

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