Lire SVN build for Java 1.5
Due to requests I took some time and built a Java 1.5 version instead of the 1.6 versions. A simple compile with 1.5 wouldn’t help as I use the swing layout classes of NetBeans (now integrated in Java...
View ArticleLire: Submission to the ACM Multimedia Open Source Contest 2008
I recently submitted Lire and LireDemo to the ACM Multimedia Open Source Software Competition 2008. As I’d really like to go there I hope it will judged as relevant contribution and a demo at the ACM...
View ArticleCompiler Construction & Lord of the Rings
Recently I had an idea on compilers and code generation. Generating assembler code (I’m talking about MIPS code) and with it labels I thought: Why not using cool names for labels? Instead of...
View ArticleFinding duplicate code …
I recently found myself in a scenario, where I tried to figure out how implementation clusters have been implicitly created within a group of students. All of them were given a task (with 4 sub tasks)...
View ArticleVisual VM is Part of Java 1.6 Update 7
Java 1.6 u7 was released recently by Sun. While not bringing major changes it brought along some bug fixes and solved some security issues. However there is one main addition: The VisualVM. This is a...
View ArticleCBIR for Facebook: img(Finder)
Recently Savvas Chatzichristofis released a Facebook app based on his tool img(Rummager) to retrieve the photos of Facebook contacts based on image content. The tool – called img(Finder) – allows to...
View ArticleReport from the Open Source Track @ ACM MM
Within the open source track of the ACM Multimedia conference the SIGMM (Special Interest Group on Multimedia of the ACM) wants to provide a platform on discussing tools and code free to use in...
View ArticleHow to get a lot of photos …
I’m currently testing a new implementation of an approximate search index for content based image retrieval. Especially the performance tests have become interesting as I didn’t have access to a real...
View ArticleNetBeans Community Approves NetBeans 6.7 for Prime Time Release
The NetBeans community acceptance survey has voted for thhe last NetBeans 6.7 RC to be stable enough to be shipped. While this sounds great there is one minor details I consider critical for the...
View ArticleConverting video for flash video players to H.264/AAC
Have you ever tried to put a video online? Well actually it is quite easy if you user YouTube. No matter what codec you use you have a good chance to get a decent result. If you want to host the video...
View Article
