I’ve been using the OpenCV (ver. 1.0.0) lately and I noticed that under Linux, using the ‘cvCaptureFromAVI’ does not detect the correct number of frames from an AVI video file. So this code returns 0 as the number of frames: CvCapture \*capture = cvCaptureFromAVI( path2Video ); cvQueryFrame( capture ); int nFrames = (int) cvGetCaptureProperty( capture , CV_CAP_PROP_FRAME_COUNT ); So I wrote a small piece of code which reads the number of frames directly from the AVI file.

I found last week the Sabayon Linux, while looking for a substitute Linux distribution for SuSe. It is an amazing distro, quite stable, working just out-of-box, recognizing all my hardware even from the live DVD, and running the latest releases of many packages. Specially the Beryl window manager works great using XGL without any problem. It is based on the well-known source-based Gentoo Linux, but gives you the possibility to install a Gentoo system in half an hour using the binaries included in the installation source.

We are organizing a new series of machine learning challenges for NIPS 2006 and IJCNN 2007, called Agnostic Learning vs. Prior Knowledge: When everything fails, ask for additional domain knowledge. For NIPS only the Agnoistic track is open and the results will be discussed in Multi-level Inference Workshop.

CLOP Version 1.0 is ready to use. CLOP is a machine learning toolbox for MATLAB based on Spider.

We (Michael Pfeiffer, Andreas Juffinger, and me) won the competition 1 of Inferring Relevance From Eye Movement Challenge 2005, as a part of NIPS 2005 Workshop on Machine Learning for Implicit Feedback and User Modeling.