nbeuter's blog

Do you want a small robot for your home? Yes, was the answer of Francisco Paz from Spain. He developed Qbo, a small open-source robot with stereo-vision, speech recognition and synthesis and control over wifi. The robot looks a bit like an egg, but if it is cheap, it would be something on my list for the next birthday :)
http://www.golem.de/1005/75357.html
http://thecorpora.com/blog/?p=75

There is an interesting computer vision book online:
Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications written by Richard Szeliski.

The book is only a draft at the moment, but you can find many interesting stuff in there. It will be published by Springer late in 2010.

I found an interesting paper about Seam Scarving, which is an intelligent image scaling algorithmn.