Finally, the long-waiting proceeding of CVPR 2011 is available.

The proceeding of ISLPED 2011 is available.

Power and Programmability The Challenges of ExaScale Computing, a presentation of Bill Dally at 2011 Workshop on Architecture I: Exascale and Beyond.

Active vision in robotic systems: A survey of recent developments, an awesome survey in International Journal of Robotics Research Aug 2011.

Video-based Descriptors for Object Recognition, to appear in Image and Vision Computing.

Jeff Bier’s Impulse Response―How to Make a Really Annoying Demo, from bdti.com.

INRIA Object Detection and Localization Toolkit, implementing the Histograms of oriented gradients for human detection paper in CVPR 2005.

Images as Sets of Locally Weighted Features, an awesome article to appear in j.cviu.

FPGA-Based Multimodal Embedded Sensor System Integrating Low- and Mid-Level Vision, in Sensors Aug. 2011.

A Kinematic Approach to Determining the Optimal Actuator Sensor Architecture for Space Robots, in International Journal of Robotics Research Aug 2011. How hard can it be to include image sensors?

Some interesting papers in Robotica October 2011:

• Solving stiffness and deformation of a 3-UPU parallel manipulator with one translation and two rotations
• 3D simultaneous localization and mapping using IMU and its observability analysis
• A symmetric parallel Schönflies-motion manipulator for pick-and-place operations
• Trajectory tracking compensation for teleoperation with transmission delays
• Robot accuracy evaluation using a ball-bar link system

Analysis and Design of On-sensor ECG Processors for Realtime Detection of Cardiac Anomalies Including VF, VT, and PVC , in Journal of Signal Processing Systems Aug 2011.

Some articles to appear in j.robot:

• An overview of 3D object grasp synthesis algorithms
• Autonomous grasp and manipulation planning using a ToF camera.
• Efficient models for grasp planning with a multi-fingered hand.
• Active learning of visual descriptors for grasping using non-parametric smoothed beta distributions

H ∞  sliding mode observer design for a class of nonlinear discrete time-delay systems: A delay-fractioning approach, to appear in Robust and Nonlinear Control.

Enhancement of photo- and electro-luminescence of GaN-based LED structure grown on a nanometer-scaled patterned sapphire substrate, to appear in j.mee.

Semiconductor Test Positions for Success, an article on high precision positioning for semiconductor manufacturing.

What every computer science major should know , by Matt Might. I should have known all of them. Shame on me.

The proceeding of ARITH 2011 is released. Some interesting papers:

• A 1.5 Ghz VLIW DSP CPU with Integrated Floating Point and Fixed Point Instructions in 40 nm CMOS , from TI.
• The POWER7 Binary Floating-Point Unit
• Efficient SIMD Arithmetic Modulo a Mersenne Number , from EPFL and microsoft.
• The Arithmetic Operators You Will Never See in a Microprocessor , from FloPoCo.
• Teraflop FPGA Design , from Altera.
• The IBM zEnterprise-196 Decimal Floating-Point Accelerator
• Latency Sensitive FMA Design , from the group of Horowitz.
• Accelerating Computations on FPGA Carry Chains by Operand Compaction , from TU Dresden.

The proceeding of ACC 2011 is released.

Off topic:
Managing multiple bosses, a funny article in HBR.

The proceeding of ICRA 2011 is available now.

Better job ads, by Daniel Lemire.

The slides of Embedded Computer Vision Workshop (ECVW) 2011 is available now.

Deployment of Run-Time Reconfigurable Hardware Coprocessors Into Compute-Intensive Embedded Applications, by Francisco Fons, Mariano Fons, etc., to appear in Journal of Real-Time Image Processing. By the way, the two authors, Francisco Fons and Mariano Fons, look like brothers.

Data locality optimization of interference graphs based on polyhedral computations , to appear in Journal of Supercomputing.

Visual Servoing via Advanced Numerical Methods , a book in 2010.

Active Sensor Planning for Multiview Vision Tasks , a book in 2008.