Aug 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
Las Vegas, Nevada – August 13, 2019
The company, Mods4cars, has further developed the harness of its SmartTOP convertible top control for the Bentley Continental GTC. The retrofit SmartTOP convertible module now comes with a plug and play adapter. The specially developed wiring with connectors in OEM quality enables simple plug-in installation.
“During the installation of the module, only exact fitting plugs are connected. There is no longer any need to connect individual cables,” explains PR spokesman Sven Tornow. “This way anyone can install the additional control quickly and easily to enjoy the comfort and functions of the SmartTOP module,” Sven Tornow continues.
With the installed SmartTOP convertible top control, it is possible to open and close the convertible top while driving at a speed of up to 40 km/h. Thanks to One-Touch function, all you need to do is tap the tops button. It is no longer necessary to keep the button pressed during the entire tops movement.
Furthermore, the convertible top can be operated from a distance via the existing vehicle key. “On hot days, our customers can already open their convertibles top as they move toward their vehicle,” says PR spokesman Sven Tornow. In the reverse case, the open parked vehicle can also be closed from a distance should it suddenly start to rain. No change to the vehicles key is needed for this function.
Moreover, the following additional functions are also included: Windows can be opened and closed separately via remote control. Optionally, the hazard warning lights can be activated during the convertible tops movement via remote control. Starting and stopping the engine does not interrupt the current tops movement. The module can be completely deactivated when required.
The module is programmed according to your personal wishes. Configuration is possible directly in the vehicle or via a PC/Mac. The SmartTOP modules come with an USB port, which allows for connection with the computer. In this way, software updates, provided by Mods4cars free of charge, can also be installed.
SmartTOP additional convertible top controls are available for the following vehicle brands: Alfa, Audi, Bentley, BMW, Chevrolet, Ferrari, Ford, Infiniti, Jaguar, Lamborghini, Land Rover, Maserati, Mazda, McLaren, Mercedes-Benz, Mini, Nissan, Opel, Peugeot, Porsche, Renault, Volkswagen and Volvo.
The comfort gain for the Bentley Continental GTC is available for 339.00 Euro + tax.
A product video can be viewed here:
For more Information:
http://www.mods4cars.com
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Aug 13, 2019 | Education
For immediate Release
Singing: the key to music understanding
Media Contact: FelixTheCat@listening-singing-teacher.com
By F. Rudin
July 30, 2019
After 10 years Listening-Singing-Teacher (https://listening-singing-teacher.com) is now freeware. Free learn to sing software and sing in tune software.
The voice is your natural musical instrument. You have it always with you. Early in childhood you started to gain control over your vocal cords. You gained control over your vocal cords not only for speaking! Usually, you also hummed or sang good night songs, and learned some pitch, rhythm and dynamic control as well. To control the effects of your vocal cords changes, you used your ears. Therefore, your voice is closely related to your hearing. If you can improve your control over your vocal cords, you also improve your listening skills.
Unfortunately, after childhood this deep relationship between hearing and producing sounds is rarely improved. Yet, it is the basic skill to feel music and to express musical ideas. Singing is the key to understanding music from the heart.
Why then do many musicians not sing? In the course of puberty the child discovers his personality. And the voice is seen as very personal. Therefore, no further changes to the voice are allowed. Unfortunately, this leads to poor vocal pitch control. And this leads to difficulty to evaluate pitch. With difficulty to judge pitch you cannot improve your control over your vocal cords. To break this cycle, external visual pitch feedback is necessary. The same is true for rhythm control. The program ListeningSingingTeacher with visual feedback, the Red Pitch Dot and the Counting Hints Line helps you to get fast on the singing track again.
Since this learn to sing in tune software is now freeware, why not try some new challenges with a different approach? All our other products listening-music-teacher, listening-ear-trainer, etc. are now freeware too.
About AlgorithmsAndDatastructures, F. Rudin
AlgorithmsAndDatastructures, F. Rudin is a small company located in Ramlinsburg, Switzerland.
AlgorithmsAndDatastructures develops software to help individuals to understand music better. Listening-Singing-Teacher with its pitch-tracking algorithm helps you to better control your voice in terms of pitch, rhythm and loudness. The product Listening-Music-Teacher helps you to understand and get the feeling for our Western music system. And Listening-Ear-Trainer supports you in acquiring absolute pitch.
Contact
For more information please visit https://listening-singing-teacher.com or https://www.pitchfeedback.com
F. Rudin
Hombergweg 3
CH-4433 Ramlinsburg
Switzerland
Aug 12, 2019 | Tech
Amsterdam, Netherlands – August 7, 2019 – AI-powered software company Sightcorp has managed to creatively iterate and improve the detection aspect of facial analysis and recognition software, thanks to their unique focus on deep learning, rather than the classical Haar Cascade detector methodology.
This comes on the heels of an effort on the part of Sightcorp to enhance the effectiveness of their AI-powered software for users looking to gain an even deeper insight into moment-to-moment interaction.
From capturing and quantifying emotions and moods, to analyzing information on demographics and providing actionable and reliable data on customers’ attention spans, Sightcorp intends to give users as much insight as necessary to make an informed, predictive decision.
The initiative focused on deepening the software’s ability to detect faces across varying head poses, with greater accuracy, speed, and granularity. For Sightcorp, it wasn’t just their reputation at stake, but a greater accomplishment of the aim of using an AI-powered face detection solution across a wide variety of applications.
The fact is that not all faces and behaviors are alike. Nor can it be expected that all faces will be completely visible at all times. In some eastern countries, for example, the wearing of face masks makes it difficult to detect the presence of a face. Add to this the conundrum of accuracy across different image and video resolutions, distances, light conditions, camera angles, and head poses, and you have a legitimate issue.
It’s an “issue” that Sightcorp decided to address head-on, prior to it ever becoming a major problem, by introducing a new methodology. To begin, the Sightcorp team decided to tackle the measurement of the performance of face detection across variations in head poses.
Since most modern datasets already include annotations with some indication on head pose, Sightcorp had a baseline from which to work. Using sets such as the WIDER FACE dataset, which included tags for “typical pose” or “atypical pose”, and the VGGFace dataset, which divided poses into “front”, “three-quarter,” and “profile”, Sightcorp gained a clear view forward: Their own solution would need to forge ahead by quantifying detection performance across granular variation in yaw, pitch, and roll.
This new focus would give the team an added advantage: testing for when things were not working. If there were certain values for which yaw, pitch, and roll didn’t work, they could take note. They could also measure the cut-off for yaw, pitch, and roll, beyond which they would need to improve the robustness of the detection process.
So they rolled up their sleeves and got to work. The team used the Head Pose Image Database from the Prima Project at INRIA Rhone-Alpes, a “head pose database…a benchmark of 2790 monocular face images of 15 persons with variations of pan and tilt angles from -90 to +90 degrees. For every person, 2 series of 93 images (93 different poses) are available.”
Harnessing the handy power of Python, the team engineered a small script to create a ground truth CSV file with a path to each file in this dataset and its corresponding pitch and yaw values. The Head Pose dataset was integral and absolutely valuable to the success of this initiative because it encodes yaw and pitch into filenames.
Next, for each value of yaw and pitch, there were at least 30 images. That’s how granular the data truly got. But it’s not simply about accounting for every variation. It’s about creating a benchmark that then allows the AI aspect of the software to take over, running its own “learning” process to the set of images, going beyond what’s merely scripted in code.
In the case of these images, the face detector should have been able to detect 30 faces for every combination of yaw and pitch. Once the benchmarking script read the file, it ran the face detector on each image under the path column and returned a concrete number of faces detected.
Now, if exactly one face was detected, the output would also include the face rectangle (x, y, width, height). And, in order to concretely visualize the accuracy of their own, newly-engineered solution, versus the “classical” Haar Cascade method, the team reformatted the data through a heat map.
The results were stunning. Through the heat map, it”s clear to see that over 30% of the squares in a 10×10 grid returned a result without any detection (0% faces detected) when using the Haar Cascade method. Clearly, then, the Haar Cascade detector worked reasonably well, as expected, for frontal and slightly sideways faces.
The issue turned out to be markers for extreme head poses. Here, the measurement performance “rapidly” declined.
Results for Sightcorp’s own solution, the newly minted “deep learning face detector,” on the other hand, returned a 10×10 grid of nearly a full set of 100% face detection. It’s a stark differentiation that gave Sightcorp a significant advantage in the calibration of “extreme” head poses – yet another feather in its already full hat of a solution.
Says the team, “These visualizations give us actionable insights about the kind of head poses where our face detector can do even better.”
For Sightcorp, it’s one small step. For its users, it’s one giant leap – the platform is already being used for retail and digital signage, emotion recognition, attention time, and multiple-person tracking. With this deep learning face detection measurement, Sightcorp now has the ability to ensure that head positions and gaze are not only captured, but also translated into further usable data.
In fact, Sightcorp CEO Joyce Caradonna says, “I am very proud of what the team has achieved with this face detection model. This improvement doesn’t only enhance the software’s core promise, it makes a shift in the way datasets are being used, giving the next generation of comparable analytics platforms that are sure to emerge, a new baseline from which to innovate.”
Contact:
Melissa Roux
melissa@sightcorp.com
Science Park 400
1098 XH Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Ph: +31 20 7051590
Aug 12, 2019 | Health and Wellness
Dr. Cinik Hair Hospital (https://www.emrahcinik.com/) is based in Turkey. The clinic was founded by Dr. Emrah Cinik who has more than 15 years of experience in the field of cosmetics and medical aesthetics. The medical centre boasts of a highly competent staff who prioritise patient satisfaction and care. The clinic is well-known for its quality treatment, catering to patients from around the globe.
All surgeries at the Dr. Cinik Hair Hospital are performed with extreme care using only the latest technology and equipment. The staff members are multilingual to ensure that they can converse with the patients in a language that the patient is comfortable in.
Hair Restoration Treatments:
The Dr. Cinik Hair Transplant Clinic serves as a one-stop solution for all hair restoration needs. It offers various kinds of hair restoration treatments like:
Hair Transplant – At Dr. Cinik, you can get a hair transplant done by three different processes. These include the Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) method, the Direct Hair Implantation (DHI) method and lastly, the sapphire treatment. The FUE is the most popular method as it allows high accuracy of implantation and leaves no permanent scars. The DHI method is also a popular one that is very similar to the FUE technique. The primary difference between the two is that the DHI method is done using an implanter tool.
Facial Hair Transplant – The centre also offers facial hair transplant treatments that require high accuracy and expertise. One can avail beard hair transplant, eyebrow hair transplant and other forms of facial hair transplant too. Facial hair transplants are performed following the FUE procedure of transplant.
Others – Apart from the primary transplant treatments, the clinic also offers repair treatments. The two main treatments offered include hair transplant repair and strip scars repair.
Packages Offered:
The Dr. Cinik Hair Hospital offers three main hair transplant packages. These include:
Primary Package – Priced at 2090EUR, the package includes one FUE transplant session with no limit to the number of hair grafts to be transplanted.
Exclusive Package – Priced at 2590EUR, this package is similar to the Primary package. However, under this package, Dr. Cinik will himself be involved in the procedure.
DHI Package – Priced at 2990EUR the package includes a DHI session with the highest possible number of hair grafts.
All the packages offered include accommodation in 4 or 5-star hotels and internal transfers too. To know more about their treatments and packages, please visit: https://www.emrahcinik.com/ .
About Dr. Cinik
Dr. Emrah Cinik founded the Dr. Cinik Hair Hospital. He graduated from the Uludag University in 2002 and has been practising cosmetics and medical aesthetics since then. He is renowned as an innovative surgeon in the field of medical aesthetics.
Aug 12, 2019 | Tech
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