Welcome to the LIACS Media Lab 31 Dec 2020
The goal of the LIACS Media Lab (LML) at Leiden University is to unify education and research in the areas of multimedia analysis/understanding, artificial intelligence, human computer interaction and internet technologies.

MySQL basics 27 Feb 2010
A brief tutorial on using MYSQL

Are Macs safe? 25 Jan 2010
This article gives an overview of the reality of computer security on a Mac.

Improving Apache Download Speeds 15 Apr 2009
Download speeds on Windows XP using Apache can be slow. The rate is actually limited by XP and can be improved using regedit.

Text2Image 10 Dec 2008
This article describes how to convert a text file into an image.

Warning: Problems when updating with XP SP2 9 Aug 2008
Warning: Problems when updating with XP SP2

ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval 17 Jul 2008
ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval is a premier scientific meeting for discussing the latest advances in the area of multimedia retrieval. All papers in the main track must be high quality original papers which address important issues in multimedia exploration, summarization and retrieval.

Windows XP Registry Backup 2 Apr 2008
Windows XP Registry Backup

Google Citation Statistics 15 Jan 2008
This page finds citation statistics from Google Scholar based on the author's name.

ACM Multimedia 2007 23 Sep 2007
ACM Multimedia 2007 invites you to participate in the premier annual multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing: from underlying technologies to applications, theory to practice, and servers to networks to devices.

IEEE Multimedia 2007 2 Jul 2007
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo is a major annual international conference with the objective of bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry working in all areas of multimedia.

LIACS Media Lab Resources 1 Jul 2007
A short overview of multimedia hardware available.

ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval - CIVR2007 2 Feb 2007
The International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) series of conferences was originally set up to illuminate the state of the art in image and video retrieval between researchers and practitioners throughout the world.

IEEE International Workshop on Human Computer Interaction HCI2007 12 Jan 2007
The goal of this workshop (IEEE HCI'2007) is to share new ideas and paradigms with other researchers worldwide in the scientific study of Human Computer Interaction. Human computer interaction (HCI) lies at the crossroads of many scientific areas. including artificial intelligence, computer vision, face recognition, motion tracking, etc. In order for HCI systems to interact seamlessly with people, they will need to understand their environment through vision and sound.

PeerExplorer - Trustworthy P2P 3 Jul 2006
Current Peer-2-Peer systems have significant limitations regarding security, interaction, browsing, and searching. The PeerExplorer project seeks to address all of these issues towards a next generation P2P application

MagicVideoBrowser 1 Sep 2005
Built specifically for movie enthusiasts, MagicVideoBrowser offers a highly intuitive interface that allows its users an easy and effective way of navigating one's computer to browse or search for video files. In this application, video files are represented in a truly visual way as opposed to text. This program brings next generation video browsing and playing capabilities to video enthusiasts and professionals.

IEEE International Workshop on Human Computer Interaction 5 Jul 2005
Human computer interaction (HCI) lies at the crossroads of many scientific areas. These areas include affective computing, smart interfaces, human motion and gesture recognition, perceptual user interfaces, and learning in HCI. The goal of this workshop (IEEE HCI'2005) is to share new ideas and paradigms with other researchers worldwide.

ACM SIGMM Multimedia Information Retrieval Workshop 2004 10 Nov 2004
Extending beyond all borders of culture, art, and science, the search for digital information is one of the major challenges of our time. Digital libraries, bio-medical science, the Internet, streaming video, databases, cultural heritage collections and peer-2-peer networks have created a worldwide need for new paradigms and techiques on how to browse, search, and summarize multimedia collections. MIR2004 is a peer-reviewed meeting for scientific researchers and users to discuss important challenges in multimedia retrieval.

PCI Express: What is it? 25 Sep 2004
PCI Express is the next generation PCI bus. We introduce what PCI Express is and explain the architecture.

International Workshop on Human Computer Interaction 2004 25 Mar 2004
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from the field of computer vision whose work is related to human computer interaction. We are soliciting original contributions that address a wide range of theoretical and application issues in human computer interaction. Developments in mobile, wearable and pervasive communications and computing technologies provide exciting challenges and opportunities for HCI

Virtual Education - Online School 7 Feb 2004
This is a 3D online school where you can walk around, see and talk to other students and teachers. You can also listen to music and view video for your studies.

Speech Street Fighter 25 Jan 2004
This is a fighting game like "Street Fighter" played by speech. You can control your 3D fighter in real time using voice commands.

Fractal Worlds 19 Jan 2004
Our main goal: Is to create an artificial world according to a set of random parameters(seed) at the begin of the program. So every time you run the program, you will get an entire new world that can be viewed in 3d. More general, every mountain, every ocean, and every tree will be placed differently in each run.

Digital Immortality - Memory Cabinet 14 Jan 2004
We want to build a cabinet which holds 'memories'. The cabinet stands in a public space like the main entrance of a library or city hall. Every visitor can show an object with emotional value or memory to the digital camera/webcam.

Virtual Aquarium 7 Dec 2003
Imagine a television that shows an aquarium with fishes which respond to movement and sound from the surrounding area.

Voice Search 20 Nov 2003
Voicesearch is about as the name suggests, using your voice for doing the search on a webpage. Before it was all textual, now its possible to make it more dynamic,interactive and appealing to the users.

Why Do We Need A Mouse? 15 Oct 2003
Our project goal is to use your hand as a pointing device (like the mouse). Hand motions can be much more expressive and convey more information than using the mouse. Also, you always bring your hands with you.

VNC - Virtual Network Computing 8 Sep 2003
VNC is a program which allows you to control a desktop from any Windows, Mac, UNIX or PocketPC.

International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval 5 Jul 2003
The International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) series of conferences was originally set up to illuminate the state of the art in image and video retrieval between researchers and practitioners throughout the world.

3D Visual Sign Language Translator 10 Feb 2003
We wanted to create a device which could work as a visual sign-language translator. On the fingertips of a glove we placed 4 different color leds. These leds can be recognized by an OpenGL code.

3D Photo Album 9 Jan 2003
We designed a virtual 3D photo album which could give a more natural way of viewing digital images.

Virtual Window 12 Dec 2002
The intention of the project was to generate a window on a computer that was realistic and believable. A tromp l'oeil.

Dynamic Disks 31 Oct 2002
Dynamic disks allow you to span disk drives and utilize RAID striping and mirroring within Windows 2000 and XP. We discuss the strengths and caveats of this technology.

Xmpeg 11 Sep 2002
Xmpeg is a tool for converting mpeg video from one format to another. We explain what the tool does and give recommendations for using it.

Virtual 3D Display 30 Jul 2002
This project is about designing a 3D display which can be viewed without shutter glasses or a head mounted display

Augmented Reality 18 Jul 2002
In many situations, it would be nice to have additional information about one's surroundings. This project does that by augmenting reality.

Video Players 15 Jul 2002
We give an overview of the DivX Player and Microsoft Media Player.

Interactive Movie Theatre 8 Jul 2002
In this project we create a special movie theater which changes the video on the screen based on user interaction via the chairs

VirtualDub 28 Jun 2002
VirtualDub is a free, open-source program for basic video editing of mpeg and avi video and audio files. We explain when to use VirtualDub and how to overcome some common limitations.

Dynamic Art 25 Jun 2002
Using live video capture and wall sized projections, we created a dynamic art exhnibit.

DivX 5.0 22 Mar 2002
DivX has released a new version of their codec. We discuss the effectiveness of DivX for video archiving.

Pentium IV vs. Athlon 14 Dec 2001
In this article we summarize the debate over CPU performance between the PIV and the Athlon

Graphics Card Roundup 1 Oct 2001
In this article, we summarize the latest developments in graphics cards.

Storage Blues 30 Aug 2001
We have tested a wide variety of storage options and give the results of our tests.

Reflective Notebook Displays 5 Jul 2001
On a notebook computer, the main power drain is typically the display. New technology called reflective displays promise significant power savings.

Beyond the Hype: MPEG-4 and DivX 1 Jul 2001
MPEG-4 and DivX make extravagant claims about video compression. We summarize the facts and not the hype.

WWW Text Search Engines 1 May 2001
This article briefly summarizes the different text based WWW search user interfaces.

Search Engine Myths 1 Feb 2001
Web search engines are shrouded in hyperbole and unsubstantiated claims. This article attempts to distinguish between search engine reality and myth

The Next Internet: A Critical View 1 Jan 2001
This article discusses the growing pains of the Internet and the solutions to the leading problems.

Digital Cinema Is Coming. Are We Ready? 13 Nov 2000
Digital cinema is expected to overtake traditional analog film cinema within six years. What are the ramifications of this paradigm shift?

Explosive Net Growth 10 Nov 2000
The president of Yahoo predicts explosive growth in the WWW

10 Tera-byte (10,000GB) Optical Disk 9 Nov 2000
Romanian scientist is designing a 10,000 gigabyte optical disk

Transmeta Recap 8 Nov 2000
Compaq and IBM jump off the Transmeta train

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