Machine vision and image processing: Oil spill fifty times worse than BP predicts.

John Nack on Adobe: Video: New from Adobe Labs, Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop.

Recognizr: An Augmented Identity App

via Recognizr: An Augmented Identity App – GOOD Blog – GOOD.

Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft’s former chief technology officer, thinks so. His company, Intellectual Ventures, has assembled commonly available technology — parts used in printers, digital cameras and projectors — to make rapid lasers to shoot down mosquitoes in mid-flight. If bed nets are the low-tech solution to combat the deadly disease — caused by a parasite transmitted when certain mosquitoes bite people — the laser is a high-tech one.

via Using Lasers to Zap Mosquitoes – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com.

“A few months ago, nVidia generously donated 8 of their impressive 9800GX2 graphics cards to our lab, to help us scale-up our efforts. The resulting machine is described below. With peak performance around 4 TFLOPs (4 billion floating point operations per second), this little 18”x18”x18” cube is perhaps one of the world’s most compact and inexpensive supercomputers.”

via Visual Neuroscience Group’s 18-inch Cube Supercomputer | VizWorld.com.

The idea is very interesting. Use computer vision techniques for 3D reconstruction but using human intervencion.
I recomend going to http://www.acvt.com.au/research/videotrace/ and see the demonstration video. Results are very impressive.

What i think it lies behing is a visual localization and mapping algoritm that reconstructs the points given by the human intervencion. when a point is lost it relies on the operator again to recover from the error.

There are more technical details on thte paper on the web