Getting Started with PaddleOCR: Conda Env + GPU Inference End-to-End
A complete log of setting up a PaddleOCR development environment from scratch: Conda isolation, PaddlePaddle GPU installation, CLI verification, and Python API integration.
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43 posts in total
2026 (3 posts)
I've Joined the Vibe Coding Wave
From web-based chat editing to Cline, then to Cursor — a personal account of embracing AI coding agents and how they genuinely transformed my development workflow.
I Declare KDE Plasma the Best Desktop Environment in the World
A log of pitfalls encountered upgrading from Fedora 36 all the way to 43, plus a surprisingly pleasant experience with the stability of the latest KDE Plasma.
2025 (17 posts)
Setting Up a VSCode, Qt, and CMake Development Environment
This video tutorial demonstrates how to configure your development environment using VSCode, Qt, and CMake for efficient C++ cross-platform development.
Recent Advances and Trends in Emotion Recognition Research
This article provides a comprehensive overview of recent breakthroughs in emotion recognition, covering multimodal reasoning, audio-driven facial animation, EEG analysis, and the ethics of affective computing.
arXiv Highlights: Recent Advances, Trends, and Future Directions in Contrastive Learning
This edition summarizes key papers in contrastive learning, medical image segmentation, graph neural networks, and generative models, highlighting the shift toward robust, cross-modal, and theory-driven machine learning.
The Background and Significance of Micro-expression Research: An Interdisciplinary Journey
This article provides an in-depth look at the definition, psychological foundations, and current state of micro-expression research in computer vision, highlighting its applications in public safety, mental health, and human-computer interaction.
AI Research Roundup: The Frontier of Diffusion Models (End of 2025)
This article reviews the latest research progress in diffusion models as of late 2025, covering key advancements in video super-resolution, 3D generation, robotic control, physical simulation, and model safety.
Fixing TensorFlow I/O Compatibility Errors
Encountering an 'undefined symbol' error when importing TensorFlow I/O in Kaggle? Learn how to resolve this compatibility issue by matching the correct library versions.
Frontiers in Embodied AI: From 3D Scene Generation to Multi-Agent Collaboration
This article provides a comprehensive overview of recent breakthroughs in Embodied AI, covering key areas such as 3D scene generation, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, multi-agent systems, spatial intelligence, and AI safety.
The Hook Model: Why We Can’t Stop Scrolling and How to Reclaim Your Focus
By deconstructing the Hook Model, this article explores the psychological mechanisms behind digital addiction and offers actionable strategies to regain control over your attention.
Frontiers in Multimodal Learning: From Controllable Generation to Autonomous Reasoning
This article summarizes key recent advancements in multimodal learning, covering controllable generation, autonomous memory, robustness, multimodal reasoning, and safety detection, while analyzing evolving research trends.
How to Force Git Pull and Overwrite Local Changes
Learn how to force update your Git repository to match the remote branch by discarding local changes, along with safer alternatives for preserving your work.
Frontiers in Reinforcement Learning: From Embodied Robotics to Multi-Agent Coordination
This summary highlights recent breakthroughs in reinforcement learning, covering embodied AI, multi-agent systems, offline learning, communication optimization, and the integration of generative models.
Advances in Remote Sensing: From Multimodal Reasoning to Disaster Perception
This summary covers recent breakthroughs in remote sensing, including large-scale disaster datasets, multimodal geospatial reasoning models, hyperspectral image restoration, and autonomous drone navigation.
Advances in Remote Photoplethysmography (rPPG): A 2025 Research Overview
This article surveys key 2025 research in remote photoplethysmography (rPPG), covering multimodal fusion, lightweight model architectures, robustness in dynamic environments, and clinical validation.
The Death of Laplace's Demon - How Quantum Mechanics Shattered the Omniscient Predictor Myth
Laplace's Demon was once the ultimate symbol of scientific determinism, but quantum mechanics dismantled this fantasy. This article explores how Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, quantum randomness, and entanglement prove that an omniscient predictor is physically impossible.
Frontiers in Video Generation and Multimodal Understanding
This roundup highlights recent advancements in video generation, multimodal understanding, and benchmarking, covering instruction-guided editing, scientific video reasoning, and efficient compression.
arXiv Highlights: Latest Research Trends in Vision-Language Models and Embodied AI (May 2025)
This article provides a curated overview of the latest research in Vision-Language Models (VLM) and Embodied AI as of May 2025, covering key areas such as 3D scene generation, multi-agent collaboration, robotic control, and security.
Why Is the Speed of Light Constant? Unveiling the Universe's Ultimate Speed Limit
Why is the speed of light a universal constant? This article explores the core principles of Special Relativity and how the invariance of light speed reshaped our understanding of space and time.
2023 (3 posts)
Fixing Git Clone Failures for OpenVINO - RPC failed curl 56
If you encounter a curl 56 network error while cloning the OpenVINO repository from Gitee, you can resolve it by adjusting your Git buffer configuration.
How to Run Docker Without Sudo
By default, Docker requires sudo to execute commands. This guide explains how to enable non-root access by adding your user to the docker group and troubleshooting common permission issues.
How to Enable CUDA GPU Acceleration for face_recognition
The face_recognition library relies on CPU by default. This guide explains how to enable GPU acceleration by recompiling dlib with CUDA support.
2022 (11 posts)
Deploying GPU and Web Camera Applications with Docker
This guide explains how to containerize Python applications that require GPU acceleration and USB camera access using Docker, including private registry configuration and disk management.
Guide to Compiling and Installing GNUPlot
This guide explains how to compile and install GNUPlot 5.4.3 from source on CentOS 8 or AWS Linux 2, including how to resolve libgd compatibility issues.
Compiling FFmpeg with CUDA Support on CentOS 8
This guide provides step-by-step instructions for compiling and installing FFmpeg with CUDA hardware acceleration support on CentOS 8.
A Beginner's Guide to C++ Regular Expressions
This article provides an introduction to using the C++ `<regex>` standard library for string pattern matching and manipulation, covering basic usage and core components.
Adapting CvxText for Drawing Chinese Characters in OpenCV 4.5
This article explains how to update legacy CvxText code to function correctly in OpenCV 4.5 by resolving header file inclusions and data type conversion issues.
Performing FTP Operations with the POCO Library
This guide demonstrates how to implement FTP file uploads using POCO, a lightweight and flexible C++ network library.
Curved Text Detection with PaddleOCR
Text detection is a classic computer vision task, and curved text presents a unique challenge due to its free-form nature. This guide demonstrates how to perform curved text detection using PaddleOCR.
Tips for Converting NumPy to OpenCV Mat
This guide explores how to map common NumPy array operations—such as Sigmoid functions, channel slicing, and conditional filtering—to C++ using OpenCV's cv::Mat.
A Simple Guide to Displaying OpenCV Video Streams with PySide6 in Python
Learn how to display real-time video streams from a camera in a Qt interface using OpenCV and the official PySide6 library in this concise guide.
MMOCR Installation and Training on Custom Datasets
This guide walks you through installing the MMOCR framework and demonstrates how to convert PASCAL VOC annotations to COCO format for custom model training.
Setting Up a GitLab Server on Ubuntu 16.04 in a Local LAN
A concise guide to installing and configuring GitLab on a local Ubuntu 16.04 server without a domain name, bypassing the complexity of standard documentation.
2021 (8 posts)
Handling ROI Clipping Elegantly with the OpenCV & Operator
Learn how to use the `&` operator in OpenCV to perform intersection operations on `cv::Rect`, allowing for elegant image ROI clipping and boundary validation without verbose conditional logic.
A Guide to the MNIST-ROT Dataset
This post introduces the MNIST-ROT (Rotated MNIST) dataset, a standard benchmark for evaluating rotation-equivariant algorithms, and provides the necessary download links.
A Guide to PyTorch Learning Rate Schedulers
An overview of common PyTorch learning rate scheduling strategies and how to implement them to optimize the training process, using StepLR as a practical example.
OpenCV DNN Batch Inference: A Guide for Image Classification
This guide demonstrates how to use the OpenCV DNN module for image classification, covering core APIs, the differences between Mat and Blob formats, and the implementation of both single-image and batch inference.
Qt HTTP Server Example: Implementing Client POST and Server Response
A guide on how to perform HTTP POST requests with JSON payloads in Qt and how to build a corresponding local server using the QtHttpServer module.
Managing C/C++ Projects with CMake: From Basics to Library Integration
A practical guide on using CMake to manage C/C++ projects, covering project setup and integration with popular libraries like OpenCV, Boost, Qt, and CUDA.
Integrating QtHttpServer into a Dynamic Library with C APIs: Handling QCoreApplication Dependencies
Learn how to compile the QtHttpServer module and solve the QCoreApplication event loop initialization challenge when wrapping Qt functionality into a C-compatible dynamic library.
Compiling OpenCV with CUDA Support using CMake and VS2019 on Windows 10
A step-by-step guide on how to compile a custom OpenCV library with CUDA and DNN acceleration support from source using CMake and Visual Studio 2019.
2012 (1 post)
Configuring FFTW 3.3.2 in Visual Studio 2010
A step-by-step guide on how to install and configure the FFTW 3.3.2 library in a Visual Studio 2010 environment, including .lib file generation and project property setup.