Weekly Update for April 16
Sample Slide
A sample list:
- Where
- is
- the
love Spring?
- >:-(
Updates
- Rarity and SLR’s
- Trying to look at some of Morrison’s references from speech recognition
- Considering returning to monotone SLR problem
- Dead Idea Documentation
Grant Writing
- 3D shoeprint proposal: almost complete
- list of proposed staff, affiliations, and roles
- potential problems, risk mitigation, etc.
- proofreading, revisions, etc.
- 2D shoeprint proposal:
- waiting on engineering stuff - designs, rendering of scanner
- planned scholarly products
- criminal justice significance
- project timeline/milestones
- IRB paperwork
Updates
- Shoeprint alignment script on MATLAB working well for one of the cases (Adidas Size 8 Left)
- Test made with 10 shoes
- Working now on organizing the 4000-5000 images we currently have to apply the script to each of the eight cases (2 brand x 4 sizes)
Predicting Groove Sides

Predicting Groove Sides

Predicting Groove Sides

Predicting Groove Sides

Updates
- rStan does not support discrete parameters
- Not an issue for situations like random binomial sample size (marginalize)
- Is an issue for discrete latent variables that are of statistical interest
Hierarchical Results - MCMC in STAN

Hierarchical Results - MCMC in JAGS

SURF
-Speeded-Up Robust Features (SURF) by Bay et al. (2008)

SURF
-Random 500 edge vs. 500 strong SURF

SURF
-100 strong SURF vs. 500 strong SURF

SURF
- Before and after alignment of SURF and edges

SURF
- Similarity features and RF score
