Through My Mask

Personalization through Mask Marketing

Customized marketing, so called 1-to-1 marketing, is often viewed as the panacea of e-commerce. User profiles, such as click streams logging every site the user accesses, are exploited to generate a profile of interests of the users. Marketing measures like advertisements in form of banners or product presentation are tailored according to these profiles. This kind of customizing suffers from i...

Coding Depth through Mask Structure

We present a coded-aperture method based on a family of masks obtained as the convolution of one "hole" with a structural component consisting of an arrangement of Dirac delta functions. We call the arrangement of delta functions the structural component of the mask, and use it to efficiently encode scene distance information. We illustrate the potential of our approach by analyzing a family of...

See me through my eyes

Poison running through my veins.

G o shopping in any large supermarket in a Western country and you are likely to find yourself bombarded with enticements to purchase ‘organic’ produce. In so doing, you are made to feel as if you have added a personal contribution to the welfare of our dear green planet. Those slightly higher prices surely are a justified donation in support of hard-working local farmers, struggling to compete...

Mask-Layout Synthesis Through an Evolutionary Algorithm

An automatic method for synthesizing MEMS mask-layouts is presented. This method uses evolutionary algorithm techniques to optimize the mask-layouts for a forward simulation of fabrication. Initially, a random population of masklayouts is generated. The fabrication of each layout is simulated through a digital process simulator to produce a 3D fabricated shape, which is compared to a user-speci...