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9 February 2010 Comments

Install Snow Leopard OSX 10.6 in VMWARE Workstation 7

Welcome to Stone Studio! Here is the story how to Using Mac OSX in the latest Windows 7 – install Snow Leopard in VMWARE 7. Virtualization of Snow Leopard (Client) is not officially supported/allowed by any virtualization solution. However a few modifications to the .vmx file and use a modified install disk as [...]

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8 February 2010 Comments

Image Processing: Internet Image Montage

Tao Chen et al. present a system that composes a realistic picture from a simple freehand sketch annotated with text labels. The composed picture is generated by seamlessly stitching several photographs in agreement with the sketch and text labels; these are found by searching the Internet. Although online image search generates many inappropriate results, our [...]

8 February 2010 Comments

Use LaTeX in Powerpoint

Tool 1: BlackHC’s PowerPoint Tools
Currently contains two PowerPoint 2007 addins: PowerPointLaTeX – an addin that allows you to embed LaTeX formulas into your presentations more easily and in a more user-friendly way than comparable software (TexPoint for example). LanguagePainter – a tiny tool to help you create presentations in languages different from your keyboard layout [...]

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8 February 2010 Comments

品葡萄酒的11个常见问题

什么杯子喝葡萄酒最合适?
我们喜欢大一点的葡萄酒杯,重量在20到22盎司比较适宜,因为那样手感很好,能来回旋转杯中倒入的少量葡萄酒。要找那种透明度高、杯壁薄、杯脚长、杯口微微收拢的杯子,价格不要太贵,免得打碎了心疼。这些年来,我们在很多商店都发现不少好杯子,比如Pier 1和Costco连锁超市等(但这两个地方最近都买不到我们最青睐的那些酒杯)。奥地利力多公司(Riedel)旗下的德国诗杯客乐 (Spiegelau)出品的勃艮蒂杯(Vino Grande Burgundy)是我们品酒的日常用具。Vino Grande Burgundy from Spiegelau, which is owned by Riedel, is our everyday glass.
 

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8 February 2010 Comments

Three Matlab Software Tools for Speech Analysis

COLEA: A software tool for speech analysis
PESQ and other objective measures for evaluating quality of speech processed by noise suppression algorithms [composite.zip]
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Quality Assessment:   Hu, Y. and Loizou, P. (2008). “Evaluation of objective quality measures for speech enhancement,” IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 16(1), 229-238.

Intelligibility Assessment:  Ma, J., Hu, Y. [...]

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7 February 2010 Comments

Object Detection in Complex Scenes

This is a disctription of Aurélie Bugeau’s research in object detection. “First, groups of pixels having similar motion and photometric features are extracted. For this first step only a sub-grid of image pixels is used to reduce computational cost to improve robustness to noise. The grid is regularly spread on the image. Each of its [...]

7 February 2010 Comments

WordPress Text Flow vs. Markdown

Michel Fortin reviewed his analysis in how to make PHP Markdown works with WordPress.
It works since a year now, but there have always been many glitches. All this relates to the text flow model WordPress has adopted, which is very powerful but badly adapted to a writing syntax different from HTML. To work correctly, [...]

4 February 2010 Comments

Howto Seamlessly Run Linux OS in Windows

Windows only: Free application Portable Ubuntu for Windows runs an entire Linux operating system as a Windows application. As if that weren’t cool enough, it’s portable, so you can carry it on your thumb drive.
Built from the same guts as the andLinux system that lets you seamlessly run Linux apps on your Windows desktop, Portable [...]

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