a collection of projects and ideas
Here is yet another post about work, although probably it will be one of the last. I have finished the Forest Fire Image Segmentation Package that I have been working on. It builds on any *nix machines, check out the documentation for more information on building and dependencies. I don't know how useful this will be for most people not interested in forest fire simulation, however, here it is.
Just finished up the new version of the Haiku Checker that I am working on... This version even has a Mac OS X application Feel free to download and try it out. Complaints can be sent to haiku@metablake.com.
A bunch of my friends and I have started writing haikus at work to pass the time, and posting them to my friend Lesley's Live Journal. I was curious to see if I could write a Haiku Checker. A simple program that checks all of the syllables against dictionary.com and tells you if in fact what you wrote is a haiku (17 syllables). Here is my first beta. It currently is just a command line tool, and does not accept any punctuation and is wrong sometimes. However, it is getting there, and I figured I should share it. Haiku Checker Beta Source
I realized that I have yet to blog about by current employment. Now that I am actually starting to get some results I figured now would be a good time. I am working with David Keyes, a professor at columbia in the applied math department on a project with the goal of finding a better way to simulate forest fires. My current aspect of the project is working on automatically detecting the boundary of fires in past forest fire images. Here are some shots of the GUI I have written to do this. Currently I am using Java for the GUI and initial image analysis and a C++ Level sets package to do the segmentation. Check out the pic.
Spring 2006
Visual Databases Project
Using SVMs to automatically label images from Flickr.
Fall 2005
Adv. Machine Learning Project
Exploration of SDE and its applications to data mined from Del.icio.us.
Independent Project
End of the semester report for CUtunes.
Web-enhanced Information Management
A Project which aggregates RSS feeds from del.icio.us and provides a browser which utilizes a novel kind of similarity metadata.
Web-enhanced Information Management
A paper talking about the ability of folksonomy to organize large datasets.
Spring 2005
Machine Learning Project
Using Locally Linear Embedding to visualize CUtunes data.
Computational Genomics
A tool utilizing LLE and NMF algorithms to effectively visualze clusters in gene expression data.
Fall 2004
Computer Vision Project
A simple visual gesture recognition system written in Java for Mac OS X.
Summer 2004
Summer Job
Here is some work I did for identifying the borders of forest fires in aerial images.
Spring 2004
Parallel Computing
A package for parallel statespace searching.
Programming Languages and Translators
A small innovative language for grid-based visualization.
Summer 2003 and earlier
Summer Job
Summary of work I did at the plasma lab at Columbia.
Advanced Programming
A simple yet addictive game.
