Computing Life

It would be sweet if we can get auto email notifications whenever someone pushes to our github project. Unfortunately, the default email service hook of github only supports 2 email addresses at most. Although putting everyone into a mailing list is one solution, for small teams like us, it's also …

KinectFusion is a powerful 3D reconstruction technique based on Microsoft Kinect Sensor. It's included in the Microsoft Kinect SDK, which is pretty easy to use. But if you wish to do some serious vision applications based on that, more technical details need to be figured out. And here are some …

I used to be (and still am) a big fan of C#/C++, and wrote all the research codes in these languages. But after reading this post by Olivier Duchenne discussing about MATLAB's advantages, my view is changing and think MATLAB may be a better candidate for research...

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Googled a lot but couldn't find tutorials about how to send emails from Windows command line. After playing with the mail tools in Cygwin, found it's pretty straightforward and put it up here for future reference.

1. Install cygwin if you don't have it. (It's handy if you are familiar with …

Sometimes a small-world panorama is quite stunning. For comparison, a regular panorama is shown below.

Spent about half an hour to do experiments and finally get a program to convert to regular panorama to small-world style.

The key is coordinate system transform, from rectangular to polar. This is pretty intuitive …