Images

1. ImageProcessingPlace.com (http://www.imageprocessingplace.com/root_files_V3/image_databases.htm)
2. OmniMedicalSearch.com (http://www.omnimedicalsearch.com/image_databases.html)

PDF to Word Document

Case: I wrote a journal in LaTeX, the output is in PDF. It was rejected and I want to send to another publisher, but they don't accept LaTeX, only PDF or .doc, and they limit the paper up to 20 pages only. Mine is 24 pages, and there are a lot of blank spaces in the paper (especially in the figure & table pages) because of the LaTeX formatting. I'm thinking of doing it in Word so can adjust it manually, which is easier. But I don't want to copy and reformat everything, which is very time consuming.

Solution: The best found so far: PDF to Word Converter

1. Upload the PDF file

2. Fill in your email

3. They will email you the converted file. Please allow some time for queuing and converting process (my case is ~4hours), and it's worth waiting.

Face Dataset

Face Recognition Homepage - Databases
http://www.face-rec.org/databases/

LFWcrop Face Dataset
http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~conrad/lfwcrop/

Psychological Image Collection at Stirling (PICS) Image Database
http://pics.psych.stir.ac.uk/cgi-bin/PICS/New/pics.cgi

Resources for Face Detection
http://vision.ai.uiuc.edu/mhyang/face-detection-survey.html


Simple steps on nose and mouth detection:
Source: From here (credits to Alan Balkany)
1. Use your existing algorithm to get the bounds of the face.
2. Replace each pixel with a number proportional to the variance in the neighborhood of that pixel. (There will be more variance in the regions of the eyes, mouth, and around the nose.)
3. Use the Open operation (Erode morphological operator followed by Dilate) to eliminate stray isolated pixels with high variance.
4. Use the Close operation (Dilate morphological operator followed by Erode) to fill in the gaps.
5. You should have four regions remaining: Two eyes, nose, and mouth.

Color Histograms and such

Deformation and Viewpoint Invariant Color Histograms:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~domke/histograms/


From MATLAB-central
(Thread Subject: Image histogram and difference between color bins, Author: ImageAnalyst)
Here's a nice web site with a big list of color-related links:
http://www.efg2.com/Lab/Library/Color/index.html
Here you can find the color and gamma FAQ's:
http://www.poynton.com/
The Rochester Institute of Technology Munsell Color FAQ:
http://www.cis.rit.edu/mcsl/faq/
A list of hundreds of colors with their names:
http://web.njit.edu/~kevin/rgb.txt.html
A way to visualize the 3D color gamut of your image with this plug-in for free software ImageJ (very, very cool plug-in!!):
http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/plugins/color-inspector.html
Macbeth ColorChecker chart
http://www.xrite.com/product_overview.aspx?ID=824


Paper (CCH):
Object Recognition with Color Cooccurrence Histogram
Logo and trademark detection in images using Color Wavelet Co-occurrence Histograms
Image Retrieval Using Colour Co-occurrence Histograms
Modified Color Co-occurrence Matrix for Image Retrieval


Discussion Board:
Matlab Central
Matlab DSP Discussion

Journal, LaTeX and EPS

I have to learn on how to use LaTeX as it will ease the usage of formatting the journal by using their template (without reformatting the whole document). After consulting my SV, he said that I need these softwares before proceed to learn LaTeX :

- MikTex : http://miktex.org/2.7/setup
- A software that can save image/figure/object as Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file - I choose to use CorelDRAW as it was in my program list
- WinEdt
- PostScript
- GhostScript

The 'oldtimer' normally use the earlier version of Ms Visio to convert to EPS. But since Visio 2003, the function was disabled. However it is still possible to use Visio - there's a converter (http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/MetafileToEPSConverter) where we can save the figure as windows metafile (wmf) or enhanced metafile (emf - which is better) format and converts to EPS using the software. Other alternative is to use OLETeX (http://oletex.sourceforge.net/) where it can converts any OLE object to EPS file.

Can't wait to start a lesson on LaTeX!

Stop script in wordpress

I've been facing this prob since updating the wordpress to version 2.7 or 2.8 (can't remember exactly) - which I used to manage my official makeup site, themakeups.com. The 'stop script error' occurs each time I made and publish a new post. I tried to ignore the error, but since it consume a lot of memory and heavy load (not to mention hangs my browser), especially when I'm doing 'mass update' for all the latest job I've got, then I started to seek for the solution. Refer here : http://wordpress.org/support/topic/206177

Original post was by Craig Childs, many thanks to him. And just in case the link will expire, the solution is as below:

What was happening was when the Write>Post screen was opened, it would sit then eventually throw up an unresponsive script error which stemmed from: /wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js

It essentially rendered the Wordpress admin useless unless you wrote a draft elsewhere, such as an external blog editor, and saved it as a draft - the Manage section was unaffected.

In any case, if you find yourself with the same issue, it's a simple edit of the wp-admin\edit-form-advanced.php file. Just remove this line:

$metadata = has_meta($post->ID);
list_meta($metadata);

I need XP back to run Matlab

I hv prob with matlab in vista. Can't run the installation (for v7.3) and can't open the program (for v6.5). Never had this kind of prob while using xp last time. It's troublesome to reformat & install xp, and also tedious to dual boot (vista & xp); so I've decided to use xp as virtual machine. Found this : http://lifehacker.com/software/windows/geek-to-live--run-windows-xp-inside-vista-with-virtual-pc-238071.php

hope this will work well & run matlab properly.

-Update (24th July, 10.36am):
Hv successfully installed virtual machine xp, but still can't install matlab. This is due to some reason (all the troublesome in vista), and the only solution is to download a fresh version of matlab from mathworks, and re-install. Let's try this!

- Update (24th July 2009, 4.08pm):
Mission accomplished!