Ilia Ilmer

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Ilia Ilmer

Writing about algorithms, systems, implementation details, and the parts of software work worth keeping around.

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Projects, technical ideas, and implementation notes.

Computer Vision. Can You Teach a Machine To See?

A little overview of what I talked about at CUNY CSI Science Day.

During the Science Day at the CUNY College of Staten Island, I presented a gentle introduction to area of computer vision with fun examples and research results to visiting middle and high school students.

It was a …

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Harmonic networks. Implementation of paper results

I implement an interesting result from a recent paper on convolutional neural networks.

Introduction

In this post I will briefly discuss my implementation of a model introduced in this paper.

In short, the authors suggest using predefined filters in a convolutional network based on Discrete Cosine Transform.

I used PyTorch …

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Image Quality Measure

A simple function that can be used to justify image quality and control enhancement.

Introduction

One difficult thing about image enhancement is to actually measure the level of image quality which is quite a subjective task. On the one hand, each individual can perceive the image quality according to their …

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