Some random links to saliency and visual attention:

• Bottom-Up Visual Attention Home Page, jointly supported by ilab, led by Laurent Itti, and klab, led by Christof Koch.
• A Model of Saliency-Based Visual Attention for Rapid Scene Analysis, by Laurent Itti, Christof Koch, and Ernst Niebur, in TPAMI 1998.
• Saliency Detection: A Spectral Residual Approach, in CVPR 2007.
• Global Contrast based Salient Region Detection, in CVPR 2011.

Off Topic:
How to send and reply to email, a blog post by Matt Might. He has another post, not a new one but worth reading again, titled “A thesis proposal is a contract“.

ViSP Visual Servoing Platform, from IRISA.

Kinematics, pattern recognition, and motion control of mask–panel alignment system (non-doi link), to appear in Control Engineering Practice.

The NANOMEFOS non-contact measurement machine for freeform optics (non-doi link), by Rens Henselmans, et al., to appear in Precision Engineering. The PhD thesis of Rens Henselmans is “Non-contact measurement machine for freeform optics“. A demo video is available on the NANOMEFOS page at TNO.

Multi-probe scanning system comprising three laser interferometers and one autocollimator for measuring flat bar mirror profile with nanometer accuracy, to appear in Precision Engineering.

Designing Power and Performance Optimal Application-Specific Network-on-Chip Architectures, to appear in j.micpro.

The Instruction-Set Extension Problem: A Survey, in TRETS May 2011.

Some interesting papers in TPAMI July 2011:

• Penrose Pixels for Super-Resolution
• Reliability Fusion of Time-of-Flight Depth and Stereo Geometry for High Quality Depth Maps
• Silhouette Segmentation in Multiple Views
• Trajectory Space: A Dual Representation for Nonrigid Structure from Motion
• Higher-Dimensional Affine Registration and Vision Applications
• Linear Scale and Rotation Invariant Matching
• Vehicle Surveillance with a Generic, Adaptive, 3D Vehicle Model
• Hidden Part Models for Human Action Recognition: Probabilistic versus Max Margin

The Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing June 2011 is a special issue on Advances in Remote Sensing Image Processing.

A virtual closed loop method for closed loop identification, to appear in Automatica. (non-doi link)

Energy-Efficient Floating Point Unit Design, in Transactions on Computers July 2011. The floating point operation itself is consuming less energy than moving the data to the floating point unit from the L1 cache.

Some interesting articles in Communications of the ACM June 2011:

• Beauty and elegance (non-doi link), interviewing Leslie Valiant, the 2010 Turing Award laureate
• The promise of flexible displays (non-doi link), showing e-ink and oled as the most promissing flexible display technologies. It highlights the research from the Flexible Display Center at Arizona State University.
• Computer science can use more science (non-doi link). We should learn from the science for the nature to create the science for the artefacts.
• If you have too much data, then ‘good enough’ is good enough (non-doi link). This principle is not only applicable for large scale data base, but also applicable to any data-intensive processing systems.

EoSens 3CL High-Speed CMOS Camera from Menzel Vision & Robotics is capable of streaming a Region of Interest (ROI) 320×240 at 9797 frames per second (fps). It can reach 285000 fps for lower resolution. It is not an in-situ camera, which only buffers the frames for later readout. It can stream out the frames continuously, if the frame grabber and the processing system can support such high bandwidth. This camera is current available in the Netherlands via Data Vision (datvision.com).

Off topic:
I have just installed Fedora 15 on my laptop. The Gnome 3 is much cleaner than the Gnome 2.

Performance improvement of a drop-on-demand inkjet printhead using an optimization-based feedforward control method , from Delft and Oce, to appear in Control Engineering Practice. (non-doi link)