Image-Based Face Recognition Algorithms

PCA, ICA, LDA, EP, EBGM, Kernel Methods, Trace Transform,
AAM, 3-D Morphable Model, 3-D Face Recognition,
Bayesian Framework, SVM, HMM, Boosting & Ensemble,
Algorithms Comparisons

you name it. you got it all here.
http://www.face-rec.org/algorithms/

and ... also at Intel OpenCV
http://opencvlibrary.sourceforge.net/FaceRecognition

you wanna know, which one of them is the best?
check out this comparison
http://www.cs.colostate.edu/evalfacerec/

Open Source clicks heatmap apache module

David from http://www.corunet.com/ published the source code of an apache module which analysis the web server logs and produces heatmap images of the web pages.
enjoy and deploy.

The Creative Mind

What’s going on at Adobe's creative minds?
Check out this brilliant and cool flash demonstration of Adobe Creative Suite.

http://www.adobe.com/creativemind/?promoid=NLKO

panoramic viewfinder and much more

patrick baudisch's is a research scientist in the field of human-computer interaction at the Adaptive Systems and Interaction Research Group at Microsoft Research.
He has been working on some projects that will definitely will inspire your mind.

http://www.patrickbaudisch.com/projects/panoramicviewfinder/index.html
http://www.patrickbaudisch.com/projects/index.html

Eye Tracking and clicks services

Several consulting companies currently sell evaluation services using eye tracking to graphic design houses and web content creators among others.

http://www.clicktale.com

http://www.eyetools.com

http://www.factone.com

http://www.veridicalresearch.com

http://www.tobii.com/

http://www.simpleusability.com

http://crazyegg.com/

http://www.interactive-minds.com/

http://www.clickdensity.com

By ANTHONY SANTELLA:
THE ART OF SEEING: VISUAL PERCEPTION IN DESIGN
AND EVALUATION OF NON-PHOTOREALISTIC RENDERING

Much of the knowledge above about human eye motion has been gained through the use of eye-tracking. A system measures a viewer’s eye in one of several manners and records the point where it is looking, termed the point of regard or POR.

Eye position has been used as a cursor for selection tasks in a GUI [Sibert and Jacob, 2000]. They have also been used to indicate a users’ attention to others in a videoconferencing environment [Vertegaal, 1999].
Another class of use, related to ours, uses POR to control simplifying images or scenes for efficiency purposes. Knowing where a user looks enables pruning of information that is not perceptible, and need not be transmitted in a video stream [Duchowski, 2000].

Eye tracking has been used to evaluate the effectiveness of informational
displays including application interfaces [Crowe and Narayanan, 2000],
web pages [Goldberg et al., 2002], and air traffic control systems [Mulligan, 2002]. As mentioned earlier, eye movements may even reveal information that viewers are trying to report, but cannot, because it is not consciously available.

Experiments have shown that professional radiologists examining slides look longer at locations where tumors are present, even when they fail to identify and report them [Mello-Thoms et al., 2002].
In the future, this might hold the promise of computer assisted technologies to avoid such mistakes.

Music and Neuroimaging Laboratory

Reveal the perceptual and cognitive aspects of music at the Music and Neuroimaging Laboratory
http://www.musicianbrain.com/

Can't dance? Test to see if you're rhythmdeaf!
http://tonometric.com/rhythmdeaf/

Test your musical skills in 6 minutes!
http://jakemandell.com/tonedeaf/

NIME 2007 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The 7th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), organized by Harvestworks and New York University's (NYU) Music Technology Program in partnership with the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). The conference will take place June 7-9, 2007 in New York City.

for participation submission, see
http://itp.nyu.edu/nime/2007

The Usability Professionals Association

UPA Israel is a community of Israeli professionals in the fields of usability, user interface design, human factors engineering, user experience design and the gray areas that lie in between.
http://upaisrael.org/English.htm
member of the The Usability Professionals Association