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WinCandide: New Thesis Project
I sometimes call myself an ambitious slacker; that descriptions seems to fit rather well. After all, I keep myself busy with a heap of projects even if I like to slack off and just spend a week drinking beer while watching anime as well. At the moment I’m feeling rather ambitious, though.
A little while ago I wrote a wee thesis on Lexical-Functional Grammar which enabled me to finally get a degree of sorts. Granted, it’s just a B.A. in Computer Science, so I still fall short compared to everyone I know who’s getting a PhD. It seems to be the fashionable thing to do – everyone’s doing it! Even my sister. The bitch! Well, my ambition has won over my slackiness, and I’ve decided to look into upgrading this degree of mine. Here’s my plan:
- Find an interesting project for a Master’s thesis.
- Write the thesis in my spare time while I’m working.
- Get a Master.
- …
- Profit!
The third point sounds rather kinky, taken out of context. But yeah, I’m working on the first point right now, and I have two ideas:
- I could continue my work with the LFG parser; I have an interesting idea for using case-based reasoning to improve context-free parsing, and it might be adequate for a Master’s thesis.
- Or, I could make an improved version of WinCandide – a program for handling face models. Go check out that link to see more information about the program. (And if you spontaneously think of any desperately needed features, feel free to let me know!)
I really like the first idea, but that would mean a damn lot of work, and I’d have to find a supervisor, and I’d have to discuss my idea to and fro to see if it’s feasible at all, and I’d have to find a suitable grammar, and and and…
The other option is the one I’m leaning toward right now, out of laziness. The project is offered as a possible Master’s thesis and it oughtn’t be all that difficult. Sounds great! If all goes well when I meet up with the supervisor I’ll probably go for this one.
I hope this irrelevant post about my personal life isn’t the beginning of a trend. I’ll have to find something interesting to rant about one of these days.
March 29th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Dude, if y’all workin on winCandide, can u update the basic version to include the more advanced features of face tracking in it, or can somehow get the interface version
March 30th, 2008 at 1:22 am
Nope, not working on it – and I don’t know if anyone else is either. I simply didn’t have time to go through with this. The app might still be a this-ought-to-be-improved item on their list.
April 27th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Karja, do u have any VS 2005 Candide proyect that could u handle me?
June 22nd, 2010 at 8:39 pm
Hey,
Wincandide 2 doesn’t have tool baar features and also to translate the model in XY frame, there is no shortcut using mouse. Do you have any idea of any such software which does the same task but has these features added to. Original Wincandide has lots of problems with compatibility.