Rafa's blog

Building 3D Slicer 4 in Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 (Squeeze)

Sun, 04/01/2012 - 09:54 — Rafa

One of the most noticeable features about Debian is its long release cycle. This prevents many users adopting Debian simply because they get "old software". At the end, it is a trade-off features/stability. I personally like the long release cycle policy although sometimes I have to replace some packages, or build my own. 3D Slicer 4 is one of these examples where (in the case of Debian) we have to either download the already built version (http://download.slicer.org/) or build it ourselves.

Getting Canon EOS 600D to work in Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 (Squeeze)

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 20:26 — Rafa

Debian is a great GNU/Linux distribution. It is very well known for its stability and reliability, however, these two features are often opposed to flexibility and functionality. Recently, I have experienced some problems when trying to use my Canon EOS 600D (EOS600D) together with Debian 6.0 (Squeeze). Squeeze was released at about the same tame as EOS600D, so the packages included within come with very limited support.

Building 3DSlicer with system iPython and MatplotLib support

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 10:17 — Rafa

3D Slicer is a powerful application for image analysis and visualization oriented to the medical research field. It provides with a huge amount of algorithms for registration, segmentation, visualization... and it is extensible by a plug-ins mechanism, thus allowing users to contribute with new algorithms.

Displaying OpenCV webcam output using Qt and OpenGL

Sat, 09/25/2010 - 09:47 — Rafa

As part of my job at the IVS I recently had to integrate a computer vision solution into an application. The algorithm itself has not a trivial implementation, fortunately OpenCV comes with great algorithm implementations that solves this part of the application.

Useful Tools for Researchers (II): Putting It All Together

Wed, 02/03/2010 - 12:11 — Rafa

In the first part of this series of posts (Useful tools for researchers (I): The tools) I presented some tools I normally use to manage the huge amount of information resulting of my research activities in the university. My recommendation is to explore all the available tools and find the own way to best integrate that tools in the own research environment. However in this part I would like to share some ideas about using the tools described in the last post of the series.

Useful Tools for Researchers (I): The tools

Mon, 01/25/2010 - 09:57 — Rafa

As part of my studies in the University I have been doing some research in the image processing and computer graphics fields. They are both very prolific areas and a lot of scientific papers are generated almost daily. Tracking, organizing and referencing all this information can present several difficulties. In the following I introduce some useful tools that I have used during my research...

Building CUDA Projects with CMake

Fri, 01/22/2010 - 10:55 — Rafa

Trying to get a CUDA application from source code and compile it successfully can become an odyssey. Fortunately, latest versions of CMake are distributed with FindCUDA script that allows easily make build automation. Let's see how to do this...