Cory

Profile Information:

Occupation:
Web Developer
Areas of Interest (Robotics, Software Architecture, Green Energy, Web 2.0, etc.):
Design, Social Networks, CSS, AJAX, Usability, User Experience, Flash, JS
Software Language Proficiencies / Interests:
Flash/Flex, HTML, Javascript, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL, XML
About Me:
Visual user interface designer with a passion for information design and user experience.
Website:
http://www.userkind.com
Secondary Website:
http://www.coryshaw.com

Comment Wall:

  • Daniel Leuck

    Welcome Cory! I see from your post on coryshaw.com that you are also into hiking. Good stuff. We hope to see you in the Ruby and Flex forums.

    Dec 18, 2007

  • John

    Hi Cory,

    Good meeting you at the GUI meetup yesterday. For facial recognition, have you evaluated Cogntiec?

    We've used Cognitec for a number of years and had good results. The SDK was easy to use and it saved us a tremendous amount of time getting to market.

    Cognitec focuses on security applications and we used it for video surveillance. However, Cognitec is rock solid and its most recent development efforts have been to optimize the use of megapixel images (which should work quite nicely with photos).

    From a user experience, Cognitec should provide very good results from your application. Facial recognition works best at small scale (when I say small I mean thousands or tens of thousands) and for repeat subjects (which is common with photos of family and friends). Also Cognitec's SDK offers a number of parameters that can be quickly and easily adjusted to fine tune to your application's environment, further helping the user experience.

    It will, of course, generate some measure of false matches and we found it tricky developing a user interface to handle that. Matching/training was one technique we used. I think you should have more favorable results with matching/training as your smaller/repeat population creates better, quicker results.

    Best,

    John

    Apr 16, 2008

  • Gabe Morris

    here's the code for the paginator (hat tip to Stuart M. for finding the code):
    http://www.dirty.ru/js/paginator.js

    Apr 16, 2008

  • John

    Yep, I will see you Sunday.

    Btw, and I am sure you have already seen this, butMike Arrington has a post on facial recognition photography sites. It's not terribly technically informative but there is some competitive details.

    Apr 16, 2008

  • Truman Leung

    Hey Cory, I just took a peek at your blog. I had read about the Cash Flow game in one of Kiyosaki's recent books. If you have the game, I'd love to play it one day. Perhaps we can get a group of TechHui folks together to play.

    May 13, 2008

  • Truman Leung

    $200 is steep! If you ever pick up a copy, I'm game to play.

    May 13, 2008