CONTENTS OF #3 2006
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 Andreas Ekengren, Anders Holm and Fredrik Beckman at the award ceremony |
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The ALBIHN Innovation Award is a yearly prize awarded to a person or company from the Skåne region that the jury sees has a high innovation level and good market opportunities. This years winner is LYYN, with the motivation: The award was
presented at Guldnatten ("the Golden Night") on March 24 |
Two scientists at the Columbia State University of New York, Shree Nayar and Ko Nishino, has developed a technology for seeing what a person sees, by using image processing algorithms. First you zoom in on the eyes, take a high resolution photograph and then process the image in the software the scientists developed. The program calculates the distance between the camera and the eye, when the picture was taken and in what direction the eye is looking. It is then possible to reconstruct the persons image view and what he or she focuses on, if the photograph is detailed enough. If both eyes are visible in the image it is possible to construct a stereoscopic image. One usage of this technology can be controlling a computer with your eyes in stead of a mouse. Today this can be done by using infrared light, but this tires and irritates the eye. In this new approach the eyes would be filmed by a digital video camera, and the position of the mouse cursor would be calculated in real time. Other usages could be controlling weapon sights in military applications or integrating in surveillance cameras enabling a security guard to see what a suspect is looking at. |
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The pictures below are supposedly used to test the level of stress a person can handle. This is probably not true, but it is still an interesting optical illusion.
The slower the pictures move, the better you are supposed to handle stress.
"Alleged criminals that were tested see them spinning around madly; however, senior citizens and kids see them standing still."
None of these images are animated - they are perfectly still.
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