Arrival in London
I've arrived in London yesterday and
I'm now living in a hotel near Victoria for 3 days. Looks cosy and
weird at the same time to my French eyes, like most of that kind of
50-year-old British houses. Bible and kettle in every room. Then I
should stay one week (maybe more) in a guest house near Hyde Park.
This gives me at least 10 days to find a proper accomodation.
I still don't know exactly where to search for, as each person gave
me different advice. Near the campus or not ? In an university hall
or in the private sector ? Some told me it's easy to find, others
not at all...
I've started to work on a mini-project that should last 2 months
till the official beginning of the PhD. It's not directly related
to medical imaging: it's about visibility detection. Given a 3D
environment (eg. a house), a 3D model (eg. a human being) and a
camera, the application should evaluate the visibility of the model
in the environment by the camera (ie. basically if the model is in
the camera field of view and not completely hidden by other
objects). This could lead to an automated power on/off system for a
set of cameras, in order to record video only when the considered
model is visible.
I should base my application upon an undergraduate group's project
coded in Java, but I'm already hesitating about starting back from
scratch.
Hope I will meet my 'Londoner' friends soon and Hull's ones in the
coming months.
