Arquivo para September 14th, 2013
Software transforms 2D in 3D
14
Sep
It is very easy for humans to identify the presence of 3D objects in 2D scenes, but building extraction algorithms for this transformation is more complicated.
A new system was developed by the Interdisciplinary Center development at the University of Tel Aviv with the aim to simplify this process by using a technique to draw 3D shapes from photos and regular objects in 2D.
The system is simple enough to be understood and used by anyone, the user must trace the outline of the object and set its three dimensions, ie define axes or dimensions that should be placed in the third dimension, then the software automatically adjusts the object.
But the sweep in the third dimension not just to draw three-dimensional objects, the resulting model 
can be manipulated and edited and even reinserted back into photos or 3D scenes, and this makes the software a good news.
“Our biggest goal is still to help novice users to do this,” said researcher Chen Tao to Wired. “It took us some time to figure how to make October a very convenient user interface to generate this stuff.”
The paper 3-Sweep: Extracting Editable Objects from a Single Photo EIA was published in SIGGRAPH, 2013.
EDX platform becomes EAD global
14
Sep
Founded in 2012 by Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the distance learning platform EDX, announced last Tuesday (10/09) a partnership with the search giant Google.
The Moorc.org, provide a tool for universities, teachers, governments as well as corporate environments to host his own courses and offers them to the general public.
The site should be launched in the first half of 2014 and will be operated by EDX Open, being made open source by Google and will be worked EDX, Harvard and MIT.
The platform will compete with the more educational environment that is currently used MOODLE (Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment), created in 2001 by educator and computer scientist Martin Dougiamas.
MOODLE uses a Web server with PHP support (can be Apache or IIS).
The EDX uses the concept of MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) which is a more current development
in the area of distance education because it embodies the ideals of open education suggested by OER (Open Educational recourses) which is incorporated concepts of open dissemination of educational resources .
Not to be confused with the MOOC DE is an experience-oriented and collaborative knowledge building, done in Portuguese.
The University of São Paulo and the portal Veduca launch this week, the first Mooc (virtual courses, free and top level) of Latin America.
