Weekly Update for November 6
South Dakota
- Clark, South Dakota is home to the world famous Mashed Potato Wrestling Contest.
- Mitchell is the home of the world’s only Corn Palace, which is made of 3500 bushels of corn.
- Pierre, South Dakota is the only combination of state and capital in the U.S. that doesn’t share any letters.
- Mount Rushmore took 14 years and only 1 million dollars to build.
- In Deadwood a permit is required to mix one alcoholic beverage with another. But you can mix all the beer you want.
- It is also illegal there for casinos to hang a sign saying “Casino”.
3 circle matching - all edge points

Rough alignment from corner points
- 500 of strong corners are detected by Harris-Stephens algorithm

Apply the alignment to all of edge points

corner matching results

Same outsole pattern but different shoes

Same outsole pattern but different shoes

My defense is tomorrow

But after that

Then all human factors research all the time! ð
Outreach
NOBCChE Conference in Minneapolis
- Interative workshop (2 hours)
- 25(ish) participants
- Mostly undergraduate and graduate students.
- DEA chemist
- Handwriting
- Inked fingerprints
- Bullet matching algrorithm & machine learning introduction
Handwriting
Data!
- Designing a study
- Day to day variability of writers
- Participants of all ages & writing style
- Incentives
- IRB materials
This is important.
Baking the best possible pumpkin dessert that has ever, and will ever exist on this earth.
Graphemes Are Separated.

What I’m working on:
Needs to be better:
- Reading in and binarizing original image.
- There may be something weird with one of the path finding algorithms. See L-E connection in previous London.
- Write thinning algorithm in C++ to make it faster.
Because everyone loves london:
