http://www.eceblogger.com A site where electrical and computer engineers, as well as their friends and colleagues, can exchange professional experiences. Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:03:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The title of my talk for NECHFES2008 student conference was "Multi-threaded spoken dialogs in hands-busy and eyes-busy environments: Human-human experiments". That talk was mostly about our new experiments that we plan to run. We will use variation of a Twenty Questions game in our experiments. This game allows us to ... http://www.eceblogger.com/2008/11/human-human-experiments-nechfes2008/ If you have had the chance to use an iPhone or iPod Touch, you might have noticed a "small" inconvenience: these devices do not appear as removable storage drives in Windows, like prior versions of iPod (classic, nano, etc). This effectively prevents the iPhone and iPod Touch to be used ... http://www.eceblogger.com/2008/11/iphoneipod-touch-disk-mode-solution/ I'm reporting today from the NECHFES Student Conference held this year at the Northeastern University in Boston. Here you can see our participants: Matt, Mark, Zeljko, Nemanja and Mike. Alex was also present. So far we have heard very interesting driving simulator talks from NEU students. Hui Cai presented his results ... http://www.eceblogger.com/2008/11/reporting-from-nechfes-conference-08/ Yesterday, at the GIS Day 2008, Cameron Wake gave the keynote speech on the topic of 'Climate Change in the Northeast'. Professor Wake is a distinguished researcher in the field of climate change at UNH. Since GIS Day is an event geared towards elementary and high school students, Wake urged the ... http://www.eceblogger.com/2008/11/cameron-wakes-lecture-at-gis-day-2008/ Yes, the new movie is on its way - check out this link. I don't know how I feel about Sylar as Spock... That's a major re-casting of character. Andrew Kun http://www.eceblogger.com/2008/11/new-star-trek-movie-coming/ The Fall 2008 e-Newsletter of the Speech and Language Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society includes an article about the driving simulator-based research going on within Project54. Thanks to Mike Seltzer for his help with editing the article. Btw, the image that appears in the article was created by ... http://www.eceblogger.com/2008/11/project54-research-featured-in-sltc-e-newsletter/ In our last post Mark explained the software components and structure of KLAS (Kingsbury Location Awareness Systems). These components allow the system to take in data from an external source, estimate the user's location (more on this in a minute) and then utilize that data to provide both navigation ... http://www.eceblogger.com/2008/11/klas-infrastructure/ Hi ecebloggers, In the past I’ve discussed the imaging application, and in particular, the tagging capabilities it provides.  Now it’s time to put the application to work.  Tagging of media, particularly photographs, has become a very popular and efficient means of organizing material on the internet and on personal computers.  Over ... http://www.eceblogger.com/2008/11/using-voice-to-tag-digital-photographs-on-the-spot/ Finally, the Project54 video for the IACP is finished. This meeting is a major conference and exposition organized by the International Association of Chiefs of Police happening in San Diego this year. As the name says it gathers top police officials from all over the world. Project54 will have its ... http://www.eceblogger.com/2008/11/project54-video-for-iacp/ Often times we include a picture of our simulator in our publications. It turned out to be an interesting problem, because if we want to show a cab - we need light; if we want to show the projected scenery - we need to have a dark room: The obvious ... http://www.eceblogger.com/2008/10/clear-vision-with-gimp/