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Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene am 15. August 2008 unter graphics video
We present a framework for automatically enhancing videos of a static scene using a few photographs of the same scene. For example, our system can transfer photographic qualities such as high resolution, high dynamic range and better lighting from the photographs to the video. Additionally, the user can quickly modify the video by editing only a few still images of the scene. Finally, our system allows a user to remove unwanted objects and camera shake from the video. These capabilities are enabled by two technical contributions presented in this paper. First, we make several improvements to a state-of-the-art multiview stereo algorithm in order to compute view-dependent depths using video, photographs, and structure-from-motion data. Second, we present a novel image-based rendering algorithm that can re-render the input video using the appearance of the photographs while preserving certain temporal dynamics such as specularities and dynamic scene lighting.
Drastically Speed up your Linux System with Preload | Techthrob.com am 12. August 2008 unter linux memory performance
Preload is an "adaptive readahead daemon" that runs in the background of your system, and observes what programs you use most often, caching them in order to speed up application load time. By using Preload, you can put unused RAM to good work, and improve the overall performance of your desktop system.
Bhanwara's Blog: Doing Personal Computer Software Development in the early 80s am 11. August 2008 unter history
In 1983, Personal Computers were quite the up and coming thing. You could buy your own for a few thousand dollars. Though they were mostly considered toys by many East Coast programmers (more expensive "workstations" were the rage), there had already been some interesting and promising applications developed for it.
Google Testing Blog: Writing Testable Code am 7. August 2008 unter programming Testing
So you decided to finally give this testing thing a try. But somehow you just can't figure out how to write a unit-test for your class. Well there are no tricks to writing tests, there are only tricks to writing testable code. If I gave you testable code you would have no problems writing a test for it. But, somehow you look at your code and you say, "I understand how to write tests for your code, but my code is different ". Well your code is different because you violated one or more of the following things.
The Rise of ``Worse is Better'' am 6. August 2008 unter design language programming
Now I want to argue that worse-is-better is better. C is a programming language designed for writing Unix, and it was designed using the New Jersey approach. C is therefore a language for which it is easy to write a decent compiler, and it requires the programmer to write text that is easy for the compiler to interpret. Some have called C a fancy assembly language. Both early Unix and C compilers had simple structures, are easy to port, require few machine resources to run, and provide about 50%--80% of what you want from an operating system and programming language.
Database heresies am 6. August 2008 unter Chillitwister database for orm programming
The key insight of the “worse is better” philosophy is that it’s often preferable to have a simple, partial implementation now than to have a complex full implementation at some unspecified point in the future. The current crop of web frameworks present a useful microcosm we can study to see this in action. The “wrong” way to do ORM is to start out with a basic Active Record implementation which maps one class to one table, with fields on the class as columns and instances of the class as rows. Then you layer on more features and stronger SQL support as needed. This is what Rails has done. This is what Django has done. This is what the popular PHP frameworks have done.
DanNorth.net » What’s in a Story? am 5. August 2008 unter bdd programming Testing
Behaviour-driven development is an “outside-in” methodology. It starts at the outside by identifying business outcomes, and then drills down into the feature set that will achieve those outcomes. Each feature is captured as a “story”, which defines the scope of the feature along with its acceptance criteria. This article introduces the BDD approach to defining and identifying stories and their acceptance criteria.
The Database Programmer: Javascript As a Foreign Language am 3. August 2008 unter javascript programming
Welcome to the Database Programmer blog. If you are trying to write database applications in 2008 then you most likely bump into Javascript. My hope in this week's essay is to provide a "soft landing" into this beautiful and powerful but somewhat strange language.
The Economics of Testing Ugly Code am 3. August 2008 unter management productivity programming
One could become resigned to the idea that only developers can recognise the hidden cost of ugly code, and that all applications ever written will suffer a slow and horrible death caused by the ugliness of the source code which is in turn caused by always giving priority to the pragmatic value of tested code versus the unverifiable aesthetic judgements of developers.
Coding Horror: Is Money Useless to Open Source Projects? am 3. August 2008 unter money opensource
Open Source is to Traditional Software as Terror Cells are to Large Standing Armies – if you gave a terrorist group a fighter jet, they wouldn't know what to do with it. Open source teams, and culture, have been developed such that they're almost money-agnostic. Open source projects run on time, not money. So, the way to convert that currency is through bounties and funded internships. Unfortunately, setting those up takes time, and since that's the element that's in short supply, we're back to square one.