refining infodump

Have a 14 page infodump version of the RE writeup, and have polished the first 4 pages.

SIFT flow

Got SIFT flow working, producing Euclidean and FPLBP distances. Since we need to process lots of files in lots of configurations, I wrote a controller in Scala. Just kicked off a job to get ROC curve data for all easy conditions matched to pose-2 and easy otherwise. SIFT flow takes maybe 20s per image pair, so I'm going to pick it up again tomorrow.

face.com performance characterization and DB class

Spent today getting stuff in order so that face.com's performance on the Comcast MURI dataset can be systematically characterized. Most of the time went into building an HDF5 database storing a bunch of metadata for each image, including the face.com information. The data for the database was stored across a bunch of directories and file formats, so it took me a few attempts to get it constructed. Now that the database exists, I'm writing a script to automatically generate detection and miss examples by condition, including marking up the example image.

Also spent maybe 80min on db-class.org.

mostly moved

For the last couple days, spent most of my time moving and doing stuff related to moving. Dealing with real life sucks; wish I could hire a mom. Also looked at new MURI dataset and did a bit of work on research exam outline.

Google, research exam

Haven't updated this in a while; but hoping to get on it again.

Googled today (third to last day!). Also finished phase 3 of my research exam literature review and emailed Gary and David about dates.

Literature review

Published summaries of three papers, and added many more to the Mendeley group.

Literature review

Summarized a paper and the relevant content in a book.

Travel, bit of lit review, sent some emails

Got an hour of sleep before my Friday flight, spent all day traveling. Read one paper, but didn't upload comments.

On Saturday, spent most of the day poking around Google NYC and environs. Bit of email with research exam committee. Read two papers and posted the three summaries from today and yesterday.

Literature review, Google

At Google by 9, left around 8:30, but spent maybe 3 hours there doing literature review. Came home and spent another 3 hours doing literature review. 6 papers in 6 hours with summaries written and posted :)

Now just need to pack for my flight tomorrow at 9am. Also need to move all my stuff into storage, because apparently the person I'm subletting from is getting kicked out while I'm in NYC. Grrr...

Google, literature review

Only at Google for 11hrs today. Read a couple papers, and posted four paper summaries to the head segmentation blog.

Arrived at Google at 9:22am, and hardly wasted time in the morning. The fear of having to give my money to the needy had quite an effect :) Will try to get there by 9am tomorrow (or else!); have a 9am flight Friday, so might as well start scooting my sleep schedule.

Google

At Google for 12hrs. Did nothing else.

Got in rather late, so will try new idea: Get there by 9:30 tomorrow or pay $10 - $20 to charity depending on how late I am.

Google, Scala, lit review

(Log for Saturday - Monday). Googled, Scala'd much. Read three papers, posted two summaries here: http://emc-summer2011-headsegmentation.blogspot.com/2011/08/literature-review-part-2.html

Google with some Scala

Googled from 1:30pm to ~9. Scala for maybe 90min.

More Googling

Googled from 1pm to 2am yesterday and from 1:30pm to 1:30am today. No other work

Much Googling

Googled from 11am to 2am. Think I set a new record. Work was more interesting than usual. Did nothing else.

Scala, literature review, bit of Google

On Saturday and Sunday ("today"), played with Scala. Read two external face related works and posted summaries. Did a bit of Google work, trying to measure the performance of a new system.

Googled etc

Googled. Talked with Serge about related work for face externals. Played with Haskell. Played with Scala.

Googled, made Mendeley group

Googled. Made this Mendeley group.

Googled

Was at Google from 10am to 11pm. Didn't do anything else.

Google, Scala, research blog

Googled all day. Spent a lot of time with Scala. Made another blog

Scala when not Googling

Googled all day. 40min break halfway through the day which I used to play with Scala (writing simple linear algebra library for practice). Created this blog