Fingerprint recognition was one of the first forms of biometric authentication techniques developed. Biometric authentication refers to the process of identifying humans by their natural traits. This can include fingerprints, face, voice, iris etc. When you want machines to authenticate a particular person, you choose a feature of that person which he cannot control. Fingerprints … Continue reading Fingerprint Recognition
Category: Computer Vision
How Do We Recognize Objects?
Look around and you will see a lot of day to day objects. You recognize them almost instantaneously and involuntarily. You don't have to wait for a few minutes after looking at a table to understand that it is in fact a table. Machines, on the other hand, find it very difficult to do this … Continue reading How Do We Recognize Objects?
Connecting With Kinect
If you haven't experienced Kinect yet, do yourself a favor and just go do it! For people who have just landed on earth, Kinect is a motion sensing device for Microsoft XBox 360 video game console. You can check out the video here. Instead of using buttons or controllers to play video games, this device enables … Continue reading Connecting With Kinect
Peeking Into The Third Dimension With 3D Glasses
Instead of directly explaining it, I will take a different route this time. Let's take a look at this conversation between Walter and Michael. In case you are not familiar with them, Walter is a mathematician and Michael is his friend who refuses to acknowledge that humans need complex mathematical models. This attitude of Michael doesn't … Continue reading Peeking Into The Third Dimension With 3D Glasses
Looking Into The Future With Google Glass
Unless you shut down all your gadgets and hid yourself in a dark alley with absolutely no connection to the rest of the world, you would have heard that the Google I/O conference started on June 27. It is one of the most exciting events in the realm of tech innovation. Google came up with … Continue reading Looking Into The Future With Google Glass
The Magic Of Reverse Image Search
Are you familiar with the images shown above? What if you want to find out what these images contain? For those of you who are not familiar with Google reverse image search, do the following: Go to Google Images and click on the camera icon towards the right end of the search bar. Now, you … Continue reading The Magic Of Reverse Image Search
Perpetual Enigma 