Archive for October, 2006

Breaking captchas

Easiest way to do it is using them in your own site’s registration or commenting process – will only work if you have lots of traffic, of course.

However as I have lots of experience in image processing I was thinking at processing it a bit and using a neural network for detection – looking afterwards I found this that explains it in more detail.

Canon SDKs

Canon completely rocks – they have no more than 3 SDKs for their camera series. Best of all, they are not so much different to justify this.

2006 IGNobel prize winners

There results are in – check them for a good laugh and look at the previous ones also.

Camera auto-rotate

There are some cameras with picture auto-rotate functionality – they have a sensor to detect the camera orientation (landscape / portrait), however the picture is rotated only on the viewfinder (in review mode). Also – no flag set in the EXIF structure.

So currently I’m researching how to rotate hunders of pictures automatically.