Computer vision, cloud computing and big data

I have been researching feasibility of running computer vision applications in cloud and costs involved. Here is an article I came across, http://radar.oreilly.com/2013/12/how-to-analyze-100-million-images-for-624.html Here are couple of quotes from the article. Regarding processing: “I use m1.xlarge servers on Amazon EC2, which are beefy enough to process two million Instagram-size photos …

Continue reading

UCR birding spots

Botanical Gardens: The most obvious birding spot on campus is the Botanical Gardens. Diverse species of birds including easy to see California Towhees, vibrant Hummingbirds, secretive Bell’s and Rufous-crowned sparrows call the gardens home.  Some of the notable birds in the gardens in recent time include Winter Wren, Verdin, and Green-tailed …

Continue reading

Installing Hadoop cluster on Linux

I am working on creating a Big Data platform in our lab. I managed to install hadoop 2.5.0 with help of these two guides on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with Oracle JDK 7 (java version 1.7.0_65) http://www.michael-noll.com/tutorials/running-hadoop-on-ubuntu-linux-single-node-cluster/ http://askubuntu.com/questions/144433/how-to-install-hadoop After successfully deploying on single computer I moved on http://www.michael-noll.com/tutorials/running-hadoop-on-ubuntu-linux-multi-node-cluster/ I ran into …

Continue reading