Day: January 15, 2020

Thinking to get a pseudo-random patern projector for 3d reconstruction. Come across this nice discussion. Probably the best solution is a laser source with a holograhic diffuser.

I use Ubuntu and virtualenv and so I don’t see a need of using conda previously. But I recently tested something on windows and was forced to used conda. I ended up wasting whole two days to resolve package conflict. Conda cannot install all packages (for example cvui) and this force me to fall back…

Playing with face_recognition in python. It was doing well on my 18.04 ubuntu laptop. But face_recognition.face_encoding run super slow on my old surface pro 3. It needs ~0.7s per encoding, 10 times more on my ubuntu laptop. I checked the cpu speed. The ubuntu laptop is newer but should be only 50% faster. Cannot think…