The Micro-44 has two interesting papers on GPU architecture:

• Improving GPU Performance via Large Warps and Two-Level Warp Scheduling
• Hardware Transactional Memory for GPU Architectures

Some interesting preprints to appear in Mechatronics:

• Visual tracking of robots in uncalibrated environments
• Visual control with adaptive dynamical compensation for 3D target tracking by mobile manipulators
• Planar mirrors for image-based robot localization and 3-D reconstruction

Some recent interesting papers in j.cviu:

• Analysis and evaluation of a general camera model
• Cognitive visual tracking and camera control
• Selective spatio-temporal interest points
• Robust moving object detection against fast illumination change
• Improving Sub-pixel Correspondence through Upsampling

Some recent interesting papers in j.imavis:

• Edge and line oriented contour detection: State of the art
• Real-time stereo on GPGPU using progressive multi-resolution adaptive windows
• Scale invariant and deformation tolerant partial shape matching
• Keyframe-based recognition and localization during video-rate parallel tracking and mapping, from Oxford. The front-end starts with FAST, followed by SIFT.
• Video-based, real-time multi-view stereo, from Aston U. and Google.

An autonomous six-DOF eye-in-hand system for in situ 3D object modeling, in Journal of Robotics Research Oct. 2011.

Iterative learning of grasp adaptation through human corrections, in Robotics and Autonomous Systems Jan. 2012.

Structure from Motion using the Extended Kalman Filter, in Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR).

Some recent papers in Precision Engineering:

• Edge effect elimination in the recursive implementation of Gaussian filters
• Theoretical analysis of errors in correction algorithms for periodic nonlinearity in displacement measuring interferometers, from TU Delft. It uses a simulated wafer positioning system.
• A Technique to Measure the Flatness of Next-Generation 450 mm Wafers using a Three-Point Method with an Autonomous Calibration Function

Intel Technology Journal has a special issue titled UEFI Today: Bootstrapping the Continuum.

The Kinect Accelerator, a project to fund start-ups that base their business on Kinect.

A random collection of recent articles in HBR blog:

• You’re Probably a Micromanager
• There’s No Such Thing as Constructive Criticism
• How to Think Creatively
• Why Inspiration Matters
• How to Give Feedback to a Perfectionist
• Why Peter Drucker Distrusted Facts

Large Scale 3D Point Cloud Mapping in PCL, by Jochen Sprickerhof. He has wrote some interesting software.

De robot van de toekomst is leergierig (google translate: The robot of the future is eager to learn ), from Delft Biorobotics Lab.

The course list (pdf) of the TU Delft 3ME master program in mechanical engineering.

FPL 2011 Workshop on Computer Vision on Low-Power Reconfigurable Architectures, in Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL) 2011.

On the Nature of Change in Higher Ed (Part I) and (Part II). An inspiring glimpse into the future.

Computing in Science & Engineering Nov.-Dec. 2011 is a special issue on data-intensive scientific computing. The Computing Community Consortium Blog has a nice intro to this special issue.

A Numerical Tour of Signal Processing, by Gabriel Peyré.

More Stanford CS, Entrepreneurship Courses Go Online, from the Computing Community Consortium Blog.

Machine Vision Camera Parameters for 3D, a presentation from ADIMEC. Thanks to the pointer from image sensors world.

CMOSIS CMV Roadmap, a blog post in image sensors world. The CMV 300 image sensor will be an attractive option for motion control applications.

Catalyst gets a FabLab Brainport. FabLab Brainport will be located in the Catalyst Eindhoven in the campus of TU Eindhoven. There is already a FabLab Eindhoven located outside the campus of Eindhoven.

It’s not about you, baby, tips for fund-rising for academics, by the research whisperer.

High-speed image sensor technologies , a panel discussion in ISSCC 2010. It was reviewed by Harvest Imaging Blog in this and this post. Jan Bosiers, one committee in the panel, from DALSA Eindhoven, has some interesting publications.

Some random links to surface reflection, active lighting, active illumination, and active optical systems:

• Surface reflection: physical and geometrical perspectives , in TPAMI 1991.
• Active optics: A new technology for the control of light , 59-page version, in Proceedings of IEEE 1978.
• Active Optics: A New Technology for the Control of Light, 118-page version, tech report in 1977.
• Adaptive Deformable Mirror, PhD thesis of Roger Hamelinck, in 2010.
• Germination of the Active Lighting : An Introduction and Brief History of Our Research, by Shinsaku HIURA, et al., in CVPRW 2006.
• Intelligent Lighting Control for Vision-Based Robotic Manipulation , to appear in TIE.
• Microscopic shape from focus using active illumination , in ICPR 1994.
• Microscopic shape from focus with optimal illumination , in CVPRW 2011.
• Role of optics in the accuracy of depth-from-defocus systems, in Journal of the Optical Society of America A (JOSA A) 2007.
• Affects of illumination on 3D shape recovery , in ICIP 2008.
• Through-focus technique for grating linewidth analysis with nanometer sensitivity, in Opt. Eng. 2006.
• Depth from defocus vs. stereo: how different really are they? , in ICPR 1998.

The latest HiPEAC roadmap was released.

Challenges in Robotics: Down to Earth, a syposium to be held in Nov. 21 and 22, with live stream available.

ACOTES Project: Advanced Compiler Technologies for Embedded Streaming, in International Journal of Parallel Programming June 2011.