Author Archives: joelgranados

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About joelgranados

I'm fascinated with how technology and science impact our reality and am drawn to leverage them in order to increase the potential of human activity.

Creating an R package

Posted on July 31, 2012 by joelgranados

I recently put all the EcoIP application into an R package. I was surprised at how easy it was and I wanted to share my experience :) Root Path Everything that is to be packaged needs to be in a … Continue reading →

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GPG related links

Posted on July 14, 2012 by joelgranados

I have recently been drawn back to mutt. Along with the migration, I would like to start signing my mails again. I was using the gmail web mail and did not spend time figuring out how to sign mails. This post … Continue reading →

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PDF word statistics in one “looong” line

Posted on July 11, 2012 by joelgranados

The paper that I am writing requires some background information about how digital imaging has been related to phenology. For this I have decided to implement an SLR. I am at the point in the SLR process where I have … Continue reading →

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Some out of the box thinking. How we see.

Posted on May 19, 2012 by joelgranados

This ted video is really cool Optical illusions. It has some interesting insight on ways to approach flower detection. Things to think about: “… it means that the same image could have an infinite number of possible real world sources…” “… … Continue reading →

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R. create a plot with non overlapping labels

Posted on May 4, 2012 by joelgranados

The X axis labels were a bit long and they were having trouble fitting into the plot correctly. I tried various solutions: R’s default and maptool’s pointLabel. The first did not really allow me to turn the labels 90 deg … Continue reading →

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Interesting annotation app.

Posted on April 25, 2012 by joelgranados

One of the next steps within my Ph.D. is to create an annotation tool that can annotate a series of images. This will require capabilities like propagating annotations through time, propagating changes through time and facilitating pan/zoom actions. I recently … Continue reading →

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The Flower counting algorithm lives

Posted on April 19, 2012 by joelgranados

I recently finished a flower counting algorithm and am very happy with the results. While the test was done with an easy set of images (yellow flowers over brown ground), I wanted to celebrate an important milestone in the project with … Continue reading →

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R: How to suppress package startup messages

Posted on April 10, 2012 by joelgranados

suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(fields)) And you can still test the result of the `library` or `require` calls: a = suppressPackageStartupMessages(require(fields)) Variable ‘a’ will be TRUE if it was successful, FALSE otherwise.

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Using Matlab was a mistake.

Posted on April 7, 2012 by joelgranados

Because it is not free. I think its awesome. Image processing, handling really large matrices, creating GUIs… It’s a very well-rounded tool and the learning curve is almost non-existent (you start doing really crazy stuff with no effort). There is … Continue reading →

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Very Painful EBImage install on Windows

Posted on April 5, 2012 by joelgranados

Short Version Follow this to install EBImage Go here to get GTK+. I used this one. Make sure you add the GTK+ “bin” directory to the path. If you have zlib1.dll problems, or any problems regarding the specific dll that is … Continue reading →

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