Recognition of glyphs (or optical glyphs as they are called most frequently) is quite an intersection topic, which has applications in a range of different areas. The most popular application of optical glyphs is augmented reality, where computer vision algorithm finds them in a video stream and substitutes with artificially generated objects creating a view which is half real and half virtual - virtual objects in a real world. Another area of optical glyphs' application is robotics, where glyphs can be used to give commands to a robot or help robot to navigate within some environment, where glyphs can be used to give robot directions.
In this article we are going to discuss algorithms for optical glyph recognition, which is the first step towards all the applications based on optical glyphs. Then we are going to switch from glyph recognition to 2D and finally 3D augmented reality.
For those who prefer seeing first what’s this all about before reading all the details, here is a small video which summarizes the work being done: YouTube: From glyph recognition to augmented reality
Well wonders never cease! Finally, John Loftus has again posted a blog post containing a video I can get behind! Namely it's purely stupid to say that Atheists should be shunned and discriminated against and punished in society like registered sex offenders. Only someone horribly short-sighted could ignore the fact that there have been atheists that have been a blessing to humanity.
I give the credit to God. It doesn't matter if a man or woman recognizes God or not when it comes to God choosing to them to bless humanity. This has been true and will continue to be true. To these people mentioned in the video I admire the skills and talents God gave them to bless all of us.
16 Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. 17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. 18 He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created. - James 1:16-18
Mariano has posted an interesting article exploring the stoic philosophies of the New Atheism. I think it's a must read because it brings up some of the weakest points of Atheism that many atheists refuse to acknowledge. I especially like the graphic. I wonder why people don't think that's a possible scenario if atheism is true?
This video debunks the Palestinians' claim and shows that Abbas has been lying about the origins and history of the conflict. Palestinian leaders have rejected partition plans that would have given them much more land for their independent state than the Jews were offered for theirs. Rather than being the innocent victims of a "dispossession" at the hands of the Israelis, the Palestinians rejected reasonable compromises and instead pursued their aim of getting rid of the only Jewish state in the world.
http://www.ted.com Have you played with Google Labs' NGram Viewer? It's an addicting tool that lets you search for words and ideas in a database of 5 million books from across centuries. Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel show us how it works, and a few of the surprising things we can learn from 500 billion words.
David Wood gives a great response to Congressman Mike Quigley on his recent apology for American Islamophobia. I think David Wood makes many good points. You have got to see it.
Because I was constantly being told that I'm rejecting God, and I knew that wasn't true, I decided to research rejection, which made me aware of its effects. My studies took me in a completely unexpected direction. The epiphany (pun intended) was rather shocking. The evidence indicates that the personal god is a manifestation of the ego, which explains a plethora of theistic tendencies, including their typical dislike of atheists, who theists subconsciously perceive to be rejecting a part of themselves. God is Tyler Durden; and the first rule of Jesus Club is you have to talk about Jesus Club. The second rule of Jesus Club is you have to talk about Jesus Club.
Loftus offers the following blog post as corroboration
There is a lot wrong with the video. Let's just take a step back and look at some of the fail. It would take a while to enumerate all the places where this video fails so let's just look at what I think are the two major problems. While it's true that many Christians who are rejected or rebuffed by skeptics and Atheists do take it personally, we should not. They are not rejecting us but they are rejecting God. The example of trying to introduce someone to another and the person rejects what they are told about the person even if the person is real is really a dumb defense. The scenario is missing an important point: God is not far from anyone of us. If a person wants to know who God is,. they don't have to solely go on mine or anyone else's testimony. You can know God for yourself. And not God as you think God is but God as God truly exist. We can trust God, not ourselves.
The other problem is that as I have already argued, a Christian who follows the Bible is acutely aware that God is not like us. There are things that is in our own hearts and minds that we know are contrary to how the Bible tells us God is. We know that we cannot meet the standard God has called us to on our own. The point of being a Christian is that God will and does make us into what we were intended to be in God.
28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who[a] have been called according to his purpose. 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.- Romans 8:28-29
5For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now; 6Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: 7Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace. - Phillips 1:5-7
12 Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose. 14 Do everything without grumbling or arguing, - Philippians 2:12-14
If you have not experienced this then it's no surprise you are not born-again. However, it's not too late. God is calling you to Himself.
16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. - 2 Corinthians 5:16-21
