Demonstration of Forced Perspective

I found two excellent demonstration videos of forced perspective recently. 


The first one is by Richard Wiseman . He demonstrated how to use optical illusion to make objects appear smaller or larger than they actually are. Photographers also use this trick to create context in their photos. See What makes a creative photograph for some examples.

The second one comes from Brusspup. I like the way that he showed camera zooming in before revealing the truth. Apparently, seeing is not believing.

Resources:

• Forced perspective wikipedia

• What Makes a Creative Photograph?

• Richard Wiseman

• Richard's website has a lot of interesting videos, e.g., bets you always win, that you don't want to miss!

• Richard's Youtube Channel

• Brussopup's Youtube Channel

My New Personal Website

As my original web host server netfiles.uiuc.edu is longer available, I transferred my personal webpage to www.jiabinhuang.com.

Here are a few links on my personal website that you might be interested in:

• Computer Vision Resources
• Collection of computer vision algorithm implementation, tutorials, and video lectures.
• Computer Vision Genealogy Project
• List of people in computer vision
• A Guide for Applying Graduate School in USA
• Step-by-step for graduate school application
• Course materials
• Resources I collected while taking courses in UIUC
• Slides of my recent talks
• How to come up with new research ideas?
• How to read academic papers?
• What makes a creative photograph?

The Deep Learning Saga

This is a hilarious video presented at the NIPS'2010 workshops banquet for the Deep Learning and Unsupervised Feature Learning workshop. Deep learning has drawn great attention in recent year in the machine learning community as well as other areas such as computer vision and speech recognition. This video gave a nice overview of the development in the area. 

Resources:
- Deep learning: with reading list, dataset, software
- Geoffrey Hinton: professor in University of Toronto