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NJCAA Volleyball Coaches Association Announces 2011 Hall of Fame ClassNovember 3, 2011
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Two new members of the NJCAA Volleyball Coaches Association Hall of Fame have been announced by the organization. The 2011 are current Blinn College (Texas) head coach David Rehr and former Western Nebraska Community College head coach Chris Green.
In his eight seasons at Blinn, Rehr has built the program into a national powerhouse, winning seven Region XIV titles (2003-2006, 2008-2010). In 2008, he brought home the program's first-ever NJCAA Championship, finishing the season with a 33-2 mark. In his 12 seasons as a head coach, Rehr has amassed an overall record of 355-63, good for an .849 winning percentage.
Prior to his arrival at Blinn in 2003, the program had not previously earned a bid to the NJCAA National Tournament. In his inaugural season, the Buccaneers won their first 41 matches on their way to a 43-2 season and a sixth-place finish in the NJCAA Division I ranks.
He was named Blinn College athletic director in June of 2007 and became the first head coach since Leroy Dreyer to serve a dual role as Blinn's athletic director and head coach. He served in this capacity from 2007-2011.
With Rehr as athletic director, Blinn achieved unparalleled success in all sports. In 2008, his volleyball team won the NJCAA National Championship, producing two All-Americans and the National Player of the Year. In 2009, the football team won the NJCAA National Championship, the fourth in the program's history. That team was led by All-American quarterback Cam Newton, who would go on to win the 2010 Heisman Trophy and be selected as the number one overall pick by the Carolina Panthers in the 2011 NFL Draft.
Active in the volleyball community, Rehr serves as the Two-Year College representative to the Board of Directors of the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA), a position he has held since 2009. The AVCA is the largest coaches association in the world.
A native of Tampa, Fla., Rehr attended Brevard Community College in Melbourne, Fla., where he was a student assistant with the volleyball program. He earned both his Bachelors of Science in Wellness and Masters of Arts in Physical Education from the University of South Florida in Tampa. He and his wife Felicia were married in 2005, and they have a two-year-old son, Noah.
Last season his Seawolves finished 18-9 — including a win over 2nd-ranked and eventual West Region champion Cal State San Bernardino — as they again made the NCAA Division II playoffs in perhaps the nation's toughest region.
In his first year at UAA, Green took over a team that had won just five matches the previous campaign, producing a solid 15-14 mark.


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Metadata for a content signal is searched by transforming the content signal into different hash formats, each being used to retrieve identifying information from corresponding databases. The identifying information enables retrieval of metadata from metadata databases. These systems and methods enable devices to access a wide array of dynamic metadata from disparate sources through queries that are derived from intrinsic content attributes.
1. A method for searching for metadata relating to media content, the method comprising: receiving, from a first computing device, a content signal;
transforming the content signal into two or more different hash formats to derive digital watermark data embedded in the content signal, and using the digital watermark data to retrieve metadata for the content signal, wherein the two or more different hash formats correspond to different databases, and wherein the databases store hashes of content signals and corresponding identifying information;
using the two or more different hash formats to determine identifying information from the corresponding databases; and
based in part on the identifying information, retrieving metadata for the content signal.
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5. A computer readable medium on which is stored instructions that, if executed by a computing device, cause the computing devices to perform operations comprising:
receiving, from a first computing device, a content signal;
transforming the content signal into two or more different hash formats to derive digital watermark data embedded in the content signal, and using the digital watermark data to retrieve metadata for the content signal, wherein the two or more different hash formats correspond to different databases, and wherein the databases store hashes of content signals and corresponding identifying information;
using the two or more different hash formats to determine identifying information from the corresponding databases; and
based on the identifying information, retrieving metadata for the content signal.
6. A system for searching for metadata relating to media content, the system comprising:
a memory for receiving and storing a content signal;
a computing device programmed to transform the content signal into two or more different hash formats to derive digital watermark data embedded in the content signal, and using the digital watermark data to retrieve metadata for the content signal, wherein the two or more different hash formats correspond to different databases, and wherein the databases store hashes of content signals and corresponding identifying information;
the computing device further programmed to use the two or more different hash formats to obtain identifying information from the corresponding databases; and
the computing device further programmed to retrieve metadata for the content signal from one or more metadata databases using the identifying information.
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10. The computer readable medium of
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This patent application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/794,770, filed Mar. 3, 2004 (now U.S. Pat. No. 7,606,790), which claims benefit to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 60/451,840, filed Mar. 3, 2003, which is hereby incorporated by reference.
This invention relates to management and searching for multimedia content and biometric data database searching, and in particular, relates to searching metadata for multimedia content and biometric data.
As society moves into the digital age, there are and will be problems of accessing similar data from different database. This can be related to searching for metadata about entertainment content, such as images, audio and video, or related to searching biometric data. For example, each content owner, service provider, or content aggregator of multimedia content or each organization that manages biometric and other identification data can and will have a different database, having a different database protocol (e.g., Oracle Oracle9i versus Microsoft SQL 2000), different database structures (e.g., database field arrangement), different classification schemes (e.g., names for fields and related entries), and different data formats (e.g., biometric data representations for biometric data sets such as facial images, fingerprints, voice signatures, handwritten signatures, iris or retinal images, etc.).
Different databases will exist because there are and will continue to be political, business and security issues in using a standard central database shared across organizations. For example, companies may feel that their database is superior, and thus, build and maintain their own databases for similar types of content that may overlap content represented differently in databases managed by others. There may be so much legacy content that a company, industry, standards body or government will not adopt a standard. In addition, a standard may produce security or privacy issues, such as central databases that know everything about a person or contain information about content across different companies. It is harder to secure certain fields than others on a central database since users have direct access. For example, certain aspects about a person, such as criminal history, may be accessible to only a police officer or FBI agent and not the general public. Similarly, the retail price for entertainment content may be accessible to only registered retailers, and not end users (i.e. consumers).
There are many reasons to search similar data across different databases. For example, identity theft is currently a critical issue. If similar data used to identify a particular individual such as facial images for face recognition, fingerprints, retinal scans, etc., can be searched across different databases structures (e.g., different databases), including using different biometric data representations and templates, the system can catch people that have or are obtaining multiple ID cards, and, thus, reduce identity fraud. Regarding entertainment content, selling metadata to the consumer is a method to increase revenues for an industry trying to deal with rampant digital piracy, as well as a method to fight piracy by providing advantages to legitimate services and purchased content. More specifically, a consumer may want to find songs from different music labels that fit into a specific genre and time period. In this case, there is a need for a method of searching for similar content that corresponds to the consumer's criteria (e.g., some form of song identifier) across different content owner databases to find the song metadata.
One novel method is to have a search-only TransMetaWarp router that knows how to convert (e.g., transform and/or warp—as defined in the detailed section below) search criteria between different databases with similar data. The databases can be different or of the same protocol (e.g., both are Oracle Oracle9i or one is Oracle Oracle9i and the other is Microsoft Access), database structures (e.g., fields arrangement), classification schemes (e.g., names for fields and related entries), and data formats (e.g., biometric data representations or templates and/or content compression methods such as MPEG, Windows Media Format, JPEG, or TIF).
In one embodiment, TransMetaWarp router can be applied to biometric databases, where, for example, different face recognition templates can be the search criteria, and compared via a TransMetaWarp router. This router knows how to convert the original face image to one or more templates, or, alternatively, compare one or more templates directly if either template can re-create the face image. For driver's licenses (DL), the TransMetaWarp router can be controlled by the federal government or some trusted entity, such that states can compare DL face images without having to talk directly or standardize with other states.
In addition, TransMetaWarp can be applied to entertainment content, where the search criteria are content types as described through metadata. For example, one music label may classify music as fast and happy, whereas a different music label may classify music as tempo=5 and mood=5. The TransMetaWarp router knows how to mathematically transform or has been programmed and/or trained how to warp these two (or more—such as when other record labels are added) databases with different classification schemes so that a user can search for music that fits into certain categories across record labels. The schemes can be converted to be compared directly to each other, or, alternatively, a universal search criteria, such as beat=rock and temperament=positive, can be used to inter-relate and search both database classification schemes.
An alternative embodiment is to have a master TransMetaWarp database not just transform the search, but additionally transform the data so it can be saved in a master format on a master database, creating a de-facto standard or using an existing standard. This alternative embodiment can be more efficient on the network when security and privacy issues can be controlled for a central system.
Finally, the flow of content and information during content distribution and consumption causes different participants to require different metadata. This creates further requirements for TransMetaWarp routers or databases. The architecture shows that metadata will have to be searched across various database types. In addition for this architecture, the content can be identified using a content identifier (ID), and this content ID can be provided as the search criteria to a TransMetaWarp router, which in response, searches and returns metadata from different participating databases.
One aspect of the invention is a method for searching for metadata relating to media content. The method receives a content signal, and transforms it into different hash formats, each corresponding to different databases storing hashes of content signals and corresponding identifying information. The identifying information is used to determine identifying information from the corresponding databases, and based on the identifying information, metadata is retrieved for the content signal. Several alternative implementations are described, including system embodiments, including network routing systems that search across several different network databases.
Search-Only TransMetaWarp Router (
The search criteria is converted such that the TransMetaWarp router system can handle different aspects of database searching. For example, different search protocols, such as Structured Query Language (SQL) or other search languages, may be required for the different database protocols (e.g., Oracle Oracle9i versus Microsoft SQL 2000 versus DB4 versus Microsoft Access) and different database structures (e.g., database fields arrangement), different classification schemes (e.g., names for fields and related entries).
In addition, the conversion may include different data formats (e.g., biometric data representations or templates, or image formats, such as JPEG versus GIF, and audio/video formats such as MPEG, Real, or Microsoft Windows Media Format). More specifically, the conversion of the search criteria may be based upon mathematics (referred to as "transformation") when the formats can be mathematically related. Alternatively, the conversion may be based upon training with user data to relate perceptual terms (referred to as "warping"). This training requires people to classify some of the data in database 2 with the classification scheme of database 1, in order to come up with a warping model (and so on for more databases). The warping may be based upon known methods of statistical relationships, such as collaborative filtering or ANOVA (Analysis Of Variance between groups).
The TransMetaWarp database as well as the databases 2 through N can require security classes (a.k.a. security codes) such that database 1 receives only information that is appropriate for it to receive. Thus, database 1 may get different results than database 2, since they may have different security classes. Similarly, user A may get different results than user B (box 150) because each user may have different security classes. As such, these security classes can help protect privacy. In addition, the fact that personal data is not located in one master database, but searchable via a TransMetaWarp router, helps protect privacy since a pirate breaking into a master database cannot obtain all of a person's identity data. The pirate may have to break several databases linked by the TransMetaWarp router. In addition, since the TransMetaWarp router can be remote from User A, it is harder to hack—in other words, more secure. If security classes are not required, they may be omitted.
The security class can be as simple as a ranking from 1 to 3, for example, for the user and data, where 3 is the highest level of security and 1 is the lowest level. The data is only returned if the ranking of the data is equal to or below the user's ranking.
Search-Only TransMetaWarp Router for Biometrics (
Templates, in this example, are a form of biometric data representation. The template is created by taking raw biometric data and transforming it into a data representation that is adapted for searching for matching entries in a database, typically comprising many instances of biometric data representations, each corresponding to a particular individual. The template may be a hash of the raw biometric data. Preferably, the hash reduces the raw data into a reduced data set of distinguishing characteristics. For images, these characteristics may include colors, semantically relevant features, geometric characteristics, transform domain features (e.g., frequency domain, Fourier domain, discrete cosine transform domain, wavelet domain, Karhunen Loeve transform domain, Principal Component Analysis vectors, global statistics, local statistics, edges, textures, etc. In particular for facial images, these features may include 2D or 3D geometry of the face, eyes, nose mouth, such as eyes, nose mouth location in a facial image, transform domain features, local statistics around certain features like the eyes, nose and mouth or in segmented blocks, global statistics across the entire image, etc.
Some biometric databases may use combinations of these characteristics for a particular type of biometric data, as well as two or more different types of biometric data per individual. These database structures provide further opportunities to enhance the searching across different databases and within the data sets in a particular database. For example, the router transforms the raw biometric data into one or more sets of characteristics compatible with a particular database. The router also can receive more than one instance of biometric data of the same type for an individual and refine it into an optimized set of characteristics for a particular database (e.g., perform feature location on eyes, nose, and mouth for each image of a person and combine the results into one optimized template for a particular database based on the characteristics used to identify individuals in the database). The router may also receive different types of biometric data for a person, such as a fingerprint and a facial image, and transform those different types to an optimized set of templates and searches for searching one or more databases simultaneously or in a particular order that effectively narrows the search results. For example, the output of one search may be used to form the search input for another search in another database, such as the case where the results from the facial database search are used to refine the search in the fingerprint database, or vice versa.
Instead of the databases 2 through n interpreting the security class and determining what is appropriate to return, the TransMetaWarp router can interpret the security class and return only the appropriate results. In addition, there may be fewer than n templates for n databases, as other databases may share templates. Alternatively, multiple templates may be used to help speed search as described in U.S. Patent Application 60/418,129, entitled "System And Methods For Recognition Of Individuals Using Combination Of Biometric Techniques," filed Oct. 11, 2002, which is hereby incorporated by reference.
Alternatively, the database 1 may not send the raw biometric data, but send the biometric template as the search criteria. The TransMetaWarp router would then convert the template into other templates, possibly by converting a template to biometric data and then to the other templates, or directly converting between templates. This alternative method involving conversion between templates is less likely to be used since most templates cannot be used to create the original biometric data. In addition, although many templates come from the same biometric data, different hashes of the master template are used for different databases, possibly due to security issues; thus, the templates cannot be converted directly to each other.
The embodiment showed the ID card image being returned. The raw biometrics or a person identifier, such as Social Security number, or both, for example, can be returned. If the raw biometrics are returned, the TransMetaWarp router may have to convert this data into something that the database 1 (i.e. searching database) can interpret and recognize.
The ID card can be a DL, in which case the system may return the other matching DL image, just picture, DL state and number, etc.
Many security and privacy advantages have been described in the general architecture section above. Furthermore, the TransMetaWarp router can be located in a more secure facility than the other databases since it sees all searches, and provides the largest privacy threat. The connections between the databases and TransMetaWarp router must be secure. Many secure communication methods are known in the state of the art, such as Kerberos key exchange and encryption via Digital Encryption Standard (DES), triple DES or Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). For example, https could be used for Internet based communications. Private networks and improved secured communications can be used for more personal data.
For DLs, the databases are the DL databases for the 50 states of the United States of America. In this case, the TransMetaWarp router can be maintained by the federal government, such as the FBI agency. Government networks can be used to increase security. This alleviates state privacy issues since the states cannot track people across states.
Biometric data can include traditional face recognition, fingerprint, palm print, hand written signature, voice signature, iris and retinal scan, or more futuristic ones like odor or saliva recognition, hair sample, skin sample, etc. Many template methods are known for biometrics in the state of the art, for example, as described in: Brunelli, R., and T. Poggio (1993), "Face Recognition: Features versus Templates", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 15 (http://women.cs.uiuc.edu/techprojectfiles/00254061.pdf); Turk, M., and A. Pentland (1991), "Eigenfaces for Recognition", Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 3 (http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/˜mturk/Papers/jcn.pdf); Zhao, W., and R. Chellappa (2002), "Image-based Face Recognition: Issues and Methods", in B. Javidi (ed.), Image Recognition and Classification, Mercel Dekker (http://www.cfar.umd.edu/˜wyzhao/publication.html); Zhao, W., R. Chellappa, A. Rosenfeld, and J. Phillips (2002), "Face Recognition: A Literature Survey", University of Maryland Technical Report CS-TR4167R (http://www.cfar.umd.edu/˜wyzhao/publication.html); included herein by reference.
In many ID card systems, security classes will be required, but in other cases, they may not be, such as getting a card for a gym. As such, the security codes are optional. The example 3 security class system shown above for media could apply here, too. In addition, the user may interact directly with the TransMetaWarp router, which, in turn, searches the databases (as opposed to the interaction through database 1). This method is similar to that shown below for entertainment content, but uses biometric data.
Furthermore, the databases could respond directly to the user's device. The user's device may be any of a variety of computing devices, including a personal computer, personal digital assistant, telephone, card or document scanner, camera, etc. The databases, routers, and user devices may communicate using any of a variety of existing communication architectures and protocols, including peer to peer, client server, wireless or wire networks, etc. Due to firewalls, it is more reliable, but potentially causes a network bottleneck, to keep an http connection open via the TransMetaWarp router for returning the results. Security issues may also dictate that the databases respond via the TransMetaWarp router.
Search-Only TransMetaWarp Router for Entertainment Content (
The search criteria for entertainment content can comprise any metadata fields used to describe entertainment content. Some key metadata fields are listed below, and many more are known, such as those listed for audio in ID3v2 tags (www.id3.org):
Entertainment content can include audio, video, electronic books, and images. The metadata fields above are general, and different groups are used for each content type. Metadata fields containing perceptual results (e.g., subjective results) are shown in italics.
The search criteria, labeled "content type," are determined from the metadata fields. However, the perceptual terms are usually, but not always important, along with author/artist, title, album (for music), and year.
User A's response can include, but is not limited to buy, sample (i.e. demo) the complete content or part of the content one or more times, forward content to friends, etc. The options are limitless.
The list of content returned can be a list of music available online for digital distribution via MusicNet, Pressplay, Listen's Rhapsody, etc, or video on MovieLink, or images on Corbis, Getty and Workbook stock agencies, or e-books on Audible or Amazon. It can be songs to license from ASCAP. It can also be a result list with numerous locations to purchase, learn more about the content and author/artists, and learn more about similar content. The links can be delivered to a cell phone and let users know if artists sightings have been located near them.
There are limitless content types. A few examples are included here to further explain the concept of the invention, but not limit its scope. For audio, a content type could consist of rock from 1980-1990 with a hard and fast beat. Or, a content type may consist of classical music from Beethoven with a piano and cello that is happy. For video, a content type could consist of a movie with James Bond and a BMW with a scene in France and French subtitles, or James Dean in a movie in the year 1969 with the word love in the title (is there a match?). For images, a content type may be an image with a house and red flowers, or waterfalls from Portland, Oreg. (via city and state name or GPS coordinates) within 20 miles of the Columbia river, or Madonna from 1979 with a guitar and happy (where the content type used as the search criteria demonstrates the user is looking for the rock star Madonna). For e-books, it could be Star in the title and Picard as a character, or key words sirens and lure.
Alternative embodiments can include numerous modifications of this usage model and architecture. For example, the user A could search database 1, which, in turn, forwards the search request to the TransMetaWarp router for searches of databases 2 through n. In this case, like for the biometric example, the results can be returned via database 1. In addition, the databases could respond directly to user. Due to firewalls, it is more reliable, but potentially causes a network bottleneck, to keep an http connection open via the TransMetaWarp router for returning the results.
One familiar with the state of the art can see there are many methods to populate the perceptual terms, such as choosing from a list of words or from numbers between 1 to 5 or 1 to 10 (or even 1 to 11 so the scheme is one better than the rest). In any case, the transformation of perceptual terms, as shown above in italics, require having people rate different known systems so that, based upon the results, the data warping between different methods can be determined—in other words, based upon training and/or collaborative filtering methods, as described in the general architecture section.
A simple example, shown here for clarification, is that by comparing ratings by the same group of people, the system can determine that the following are equivalent: mood=1 in the master classification scheme setting for the transmetawarp router, mood=1 in database 1, mood=happy in database 2, mood=upbeat in database 3, mood=3 in database 4, mood=happy in database 5, and mood=1 in database 6. Thus, when mood=1 is searched, the equivalent moods are searched in the other databases. Alternatively, mood=1 is chosen to search in database 1, and the transmetawarp router searches the equivalent moods in the other databases. Note, that in both cases, the transmetawarp router does not contain the data, just the range of entries for each classification scheme.
As described above, the transformation by the TransMetaWarp router may be required due to different database protocols, search protocols, and classification schemes, not only warping due to perceptual terms.
Master TransMetaWarp Database (
In this alternative embodiment, the TransMetaWarp database has converted data to a master format via transformation and warping methods discussed above. The TransMetaData database makes periodic and automatic updates, or be notified by databases when new data is available, either immediately or periodically, such as daily or weekly. The usage model is similar to that as described above, except rather than the TransMetaWarp router converting the search criteria and sending it to other databases, the TransMetaWarp database does a local search on its data using the de-facto standard or agreed upon standard used in the TransMetaWarp database. One advantage of this system is quicker searching.
Intelligently Distributed TransMetaWarp Routers and Databases for Biometrics
Intelligently distributed TransMetaWarp routers and databases are systems that control search bandwidth or enable cached databases that are not all identical, but based upon an analysis of the desired results. For example, it may be determined that people are most likely to have false driver's licenses in adjoining states since it reduces travel time and costs. As such, the TransMetaWarp router would provide larger bandwidth and/or increased search time or computational access for databases of adjoining states (or states within a certain distance radius—which would be very different on the east coast than rest of the US). The TransMetaWarp database may only cache a database within a state with likely suspects of distant states (e.g., someone with a criminal record) and all participants for adjoining (or states within a certain distance radius) for searching within that state.
The fingerprint SDK used for the test system can classify a fingerprint according to one of eight different primary pattern types, but five of those pattern types are more common and identified correctly with greater accuracy. The five patterns are Whorl, Left Loop, Right Loop, Arch, and Undefined (Pattern Set 1). The Undefined category indicates that the system could not determine a pattern type of the fingerprint. The other three fingerprint pattern types are: (Left Loop, Arch; Right Loop, Arch; and Whorl, Loop (Pattern Set 2). They are less common and are more likely to be incorrect identifications of the pattern type.
Applications of a Router System
There are a number of uses of the router described above. In the context of distributed biometric data, there is a need to protect personal privacy relating to the data and to provide security for unauthorized access and use of the data. The router can be used to control access to various databases automatically by implementing access permission rules. In the case where the biometric databases are controlled by different jurisdictions, entities within the jurisdiction are granted certain access rights, such as "departmental use," "jurisdictional use," "law enforcement use" etc. When an entity issues a search request, the router determines the permission level of the requester, and evaluates this permission level with the permission rules for each database within the scope of the search. Since each database has varying permission rules, the router provides a mechanism for implementing the permission rules in the context of an automated search without the need for the requester to seek the required permission from each jurisdiction and each database.
The permission level may be implemented as part of the security class for the system. For example, the security class includes security of the data transfer from requester to each database and the security of the returned data, and also includes verification that the requester is who he says he is. This user authentication process can include requiring the user to submit security information, such as a secure log-on and password. More sophisticated system can require the requesting user to submit an ID badge to a card reader that authenticates the badge. The system may also include biometric data capture, such as a fingerprint capture, facial image capture, iris or retinal scan, to enable authentication of the person requesting the search.
In some cases, the templates used to search certain databases are in a proprietary format that is not available to the router. In these circumstances, the router does not generate the template, but can still provide services that enhance the search process. One such service is raw data pre-processing that optimizes it for later template creation. This pre-processing is particularly applicable to facial image and fingerprint databases where the raw biometric data is submitted in a raw image form and typically needs some normalization and other pre-processing before computing a template.
One such form of pre-processing for facial images is to apply one or more face finding methods and select the most accurate result for further use in computing the template. The template may be computed at the router, or later, at the individual facial image databases. A similar approach may be used in enhancing fingerprint images before sending the enhanced fingerprint image on to one or more databases. After pre-processing at the router, the search is forwarded to the databases in standard size (e.g., aspect ratio, dimensions and resolution) and format, such as JPEG for facial images, and WSQ for fingerprint images.
In the case where the router is in the path of the data returned from the databases to the user's device, the router can provide the service of formatting disparate results from all of the databases that have been searched into a rendering format compatible with the user's device. This is implemented using a device identifier of the requesting device that informs the router of the constraints of the user's device and formats the data for rendering using a format compatible with the user's device.
Another potential of the router is to formulate search query procedures that are optimized for each database being searched, or for combinations of databases that are being searched. For example, the router is particularly useful in doing multi-mode searching of biometric databases. In this context, a multi-mode search includes searching different types of biometric data (e.g., facial and fingerprint) either simultaneously or in a particular order (e.g., with one set of search results serving as the input probe to a second search in the same or different type of biometric data). It also includes searching the same type of biometric data with different forms of templates. In this type of service, the router gets raw or standardized biometric data files (e.g., JPEG image of face and WSQ image of fingerprint), and formulates the search logic for conducting a multi-mode search across one or more databases.
A related aspect of multi-mode searching of biometric data is the use of two or more classifiers within a particular database to enhance the accuracy of the matching process. This can include using a Bayesian classifier, a Neural Net classifier, a nearest neighbor classifier, etc. in various combinations. The classifier's may be cascaded together: e.g., the output of one classifier is used to filter and narrow the search results for a subsequent classifier.
Another feature that may be used within a particular database, or implemented across databases is to train the classifiers over time based on data from previous outcomes of the classification process. In addition, certain entries in the database can be pruned from the database to provide more accurate results (e.g., pruning duplicates, pruning invalid information, etc.)
Content Distribution and Information Flow (
TransMetaWarp and intelligently distributed systems overcome the following problems:
The novel concept includes a central TransMetaWarp router and intelligent distributed database structure, which, includes automatic categorization of content, cross-database warping, indexing, annotating, and searching, and distributed structure to handle most requests locally.
This has also been discussed in patent applications: 60/270,782, entitled Efficient Interactive TV Using Embedded Data, 60/257,822, entitled Watermarking Systems and Methods; 60/276,543, entitled Efficient Interactive TV; Ser. No. 10/060,049, entitled Efficient Interactive TV; 60/285,514, entitled User-Friendly Copy Management System; 60/315,569, entitled User-Friendly Copy Management System and Method; and Ser. No. 10/126,921, entitled User-Friendly Rights Management System and Methods, which are hereby incorporated by reference.
Different participants have different needs for the database, and thus, use different structures. Examples of database structures, labeled Type 1 through 6, are shown below. Type 1 can be considered a master database structure where all of the information may not be repeated or is blocked for different participants. The general master format is shown below.
In Type 1, each section contains fields for each participant.
Although the field exists, the data may not exist or be accessible by that participant. For example, the Type 1 Distributor database may not include the consumer price and may not allow the distributor to access the retailer's usage rules.
In Type 2, some fields are left out and metadata contains different fields and entries. Participants will want to annotate the database to provide personalization, especially for consumers in their databases.
Content is indexed via automatic segmentation and identification algorithms as well as human interpretation, as described above for perceptual terms regarding entertainment content.
The databases are searched via local requests, online retailer requests or system wide searches using the TransMetaWarp router, as described in the embodiments above. This system shows that the TransMetaWarp router may have to convert search criteria, i.e. metadata making up the content type for the search, across not only content owners, but various other participants in the value chain. These participants have different requirements, and, thus, different databases.
In addition, the content may be identified via a digital watermark, header data or fingerprint (a.k.a. content based identification or robust hash). To link the content to its metadata, different databases are searched for the various content owners. In addition, there may be additional metadata provided by any participant of the value chain, such as the retailer, that can be searched for the user.
Database entries can be inter-related by similar metadata and collaborative filtering. An interesting type of metadata that can be used is location, such as GPS coordinates, of the creation of the content. For example, photographs or scenes of a movie can automatically have the GPS coordinates watermarked into the image(s). The coordinates can be read and automatically entered into the database's metadata and used to cross-link and images with similar locations as well as allow searching by coordinates.
Using Digital Watermarking and Other Auxiliary Data Carriers with the Router System
Digital watermarking systems may be used in combination with the router systems described in this document. Digital watermarks embedded in identity documents (e.g., such as the images printed on Driver's Licenses) or within biometric images (facial images or fingerprint images) can provide links to related biometric information stored in a dynamic database. This enables the biometric information to be updated over time while the identifier that indexes this information is persistently embedded in the document or image.
Digital watermarks can be embedded in the facial, fingerprint and other biometric images so that they can be persistently associated with a particular person and/or database. The digital watermark carries an identifier that links it to a particular person and/or system so that it can be traced back to that system, and so that the image that carries it can be associated with related information about a person, including other biometric data.
This digital watermark may also convey permission rights and other access control information that is used by the router to control access to various types of databases.
Other machine-readable data carriers may be used within identity documents to provide links to dynamic databases, to store biometric data representations or templates, to authenticate the identity document. These carriers include smart cards, magnetic stripes or ink, RFID, bar codes (including two dimensional bar codes, etc.).
The digital watermark may also be used to authenticate an identity document through copy detect authentication (e.g., the watermark is designed to degrade in response to copying to distinguish an original from a copy of a document), and detection of alteration of information on an identity document (the watermark carries data that is cross referenced on the document to determine whether the document has been altered).
Digital watermarking is a process for modifying physical or electronic media to embed a hidden machine-readable code into the media. The media may be modified such that the embedded code is imperceptible or nearly imperceptible to the user, yet may be detected through an automated detection process. Most commonly, digital watermarking is applied to media signals such as images, audio signals, and video signals. However, it may also be applied to other types of media objects, including documents (e.g., through line, word or character shifting), software, multi-dimensional graphics models, and surface textures of objects.
Digital watermarking systems typically have two primary components: an encoder that embeds the watermark in a host media signal, and a decoder that detects and reads the embedded watermark from a signal suspected of containing a watermark (a suspect signal). The encoder embeds a watermark by subtly altering the host media signal. The reading component analyzes a suspect signal to detect whether a watermark is present. In applications where the watermark encodes information, the reader extracts this information from the detected watermark. Several particular watermarking techniques have been developed. The reader is presumed to be familiar with the literature in this field. Particular techniques for embedding and detecting imperceptible watermarks in media signals are detailed in the assignee's U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,122,403 and 6,614,914 which are hereby incorporated by reference.
Facial Recognition Methods
Previously, we described how the router is particularly useful for searching across biometric databases because they differ in ways that lend themselves to distributed searching with the use of a router. These differences include differences in database structure, data format, template design, search procedure, security protocol, permission rules, methods for pre-search optimization, etc. One type of biometric database that the router is particularly suited for is facial image databases. This section describes facial recognition approaches, including processes for creating templates used to search facial image databases, and classification schemes used to find matches between a template in a search request and one or more matching entries in a facial image database.
The two core problems in face recognition (or any other pattern recognition task) are representation and classification. Representation tackles the problem of measuring and numerically describing the objects to be classified. Classification seeks to determine which class or category an object most likely belongs to. Whatever their application domain, almost all pattern recognition problems differ primarily in their representation—the techniques used in classification can be used on the output of any representation scheme and are common to all pattern recognition domains (such as optical character recognition, information retrieval, and bioinformatics). The two tasks are sometimes bundled together algorithmically but are usually separable.
Representation and classification algorithms are discussed in turn below. Other face recognition tasks (face detection, tracking in video, registration, size normalization, etc.) are not addressed here.
Representation, or parameterization, is the process of extracting, measuring, and encoding in a template an object's distinguishing characteristics, which are in turn used to train or query a generic classifier. Although this process is also referred to as "feature extraction" in the pattern recognition literature, the term "feature" is reserved here for its more specific face recognition meaning, viz., a part of the face (mouth, forehead, eye, etc.). The purpose of representation is to provide training data or queries to the face matching or face classification engine that will allow it to distinguish between individuals or classes. Generally, it attempts to compress as much useful information into as few parameters as possible since classification algorithms may become inefficient or intractable as the representation set increases in size. Perhaps less obviously, the utilization of too much or excessively detailed or irrelevant information in training can lead to overfitting and degrade the classifier's generalization accuracy. On the other hand, the representation should contain enough information to enable the classifier to distinguish between many faces or classes.
The various approaches to representation are described and evaluated below. They may be neatly categorized in at least three different ways: by facial coverage (holistic or local), by source data type (image-based or geometric), and by facial dimension (2D or 3D). In general, earlier methods approached face recognition as a 2D problem and performed well for controlled conditions and few classes. However, none are very robust. For example, holistic approaches in general benefit from their use of face-wide information but are not invariant to illumination or pose. Local methods are better at handling these problems but are, by their very nature, limited information methods. More recent methods have attempted to measure or estimate 3D facial structures in order to obtain more robust recognition results—the separate discussion of 3D methods below reflects their novelty.
Most early methods attempted to quantify the structure of the face by identifying key points (e.g., corner of eye, tip of nose, edge of forehead, etc.) and measuring the distances between them (Kelly, 1970; Brunelli and Poggio, 1993). A more recent structural approach, the Active Shape Model (ASM) (Cootes, et. al., 1995), performs Principal Components Analysis (PCA, explained in more detail below) on the coordinates of the key points for a set of training faces. The resulting principle components, or eigenvectors, encode the most important sources of facial variation and are used to compute a set of scores for faces to be recognized.
Geometric methods are simple and lighting invariant but their performance is obviously sensitive to variations in pose. Since the automatic identification of corresponding points on different faces can also be a problem, relatively few points are used in practice.
Holistic Image-Based
Holistic approaches seek to mimic the way the human brain initially recognizes faces, i.e., by forming a single overall impression of the face (as opposed to noting, say, the distance between the eyes or the size of the nose). Unlike the geometric or structural approaches mentioned above, image-based approaches use as inputs the pixel intensity values of facial images. Most models in the intersection of holistic and image-based approaches center on what are called "eigenfaces" (Kirby and Sirovich, 1990; Turk and Pentland, 1991).
In a procedure developed at MIT, eigenfaces are generated by performing PCA (or the Karhunen-Loeve transform) on the pixel covariance matrix of a training set of face images. The resulting eigenvectors form an orthogonal basis for the space of images, which is to say that every training image may be represented as a weighted sum of the eigenvectors (or "eigenfaces", if rasterized). Given a test or query image, the system approximates it as a linear combination of the eigenfaces—difference in the values of the eigenface weights are used by the classifier to distinguish between faces.
Since there is a great deal of inter-pixel dependence in the covariance matrix, most facial variation can be captured by a relatively small number of eigenfaces. Discarding the rest as noise, the most important eigenfaces form a new reduced-dimension space which efficiently encodes facial information and allows the model to generalize, i.e., to identify faces that are similar overall and ignore (hopefully) unimportant differences between images of the same person. How many eigenfaces to retain is a question of balance: too many eigenfaces learn the details and the model fails to generalize; too few and its discriminating power is weakened.
Eigenface methods have been shown to work well in controlled conditions. Their holistic approach makes them more or less insensitive to noise, small occlusions, or modest variations in background. Using face-wide information, they are also robust to low resolution (recall that details are discarded as noise in any case). However, they are not invariant to significant changes in appearance (such as pose, aging, or major occlusions) and especially to illumination intensity and angle.
The eigenface technique may be extended by using some other set of vectors as a basis, such as independent components. A generalization of PCA, Independent Components Analysis (ICA) (Oja, et. al., 1995) extracts the variability not just from the covariances but from higher order statistics as well. The resulting basis vectors, while functionally similar to eigenvectors, are statistically independent, not just uncorrelated. The use of higher order statistics potentially yields a set of basis vectors with greater representative power but also requires more computation time.
The set of basis vectors may also be chosen using a genetic algorithm (GA) (Mitchell, 1996; Liu and Wechsler, 2000), a machine learning algorithm consisting of large numbers of sub-programs that "compete", are "selected", and "reproduce" according to their "fitness" or ability to solve the problem (in this case, their ability to differentiate the many classes from each other). Occasional "mutations" stimulate the continued search for new solutions as the "population" of sub-programs "evolves" to an improved set of basis vectors. Note that, unlike other representative approaches, this one is not separable from the subsequent classification task for it is the latter that provides "fitness" feedback to the GA.
It should be mentioned in passing that it is possible to represent an image by its unprocessed pixel intensity values, which can in turn be fed directly to a classifier. This approach will be revisited later.
Local Image-Based
In Local Feature Analysis (LFA) (Penev and Atick, 1996), feature templates or filters are used to locate the characteristics of specific facial features (eyes, mouth, etc.) in an image. The features are extracted and their locations, dimensions, and shapes quantified and fed into a classifier. Local features may also be extracted and parameterized in the same manner as are eigenfaces—the application of PCA to sub-regions of interest yields what may be called "eigeneyes" and "eigenmouths", etc.
The detection of particular shapes is often efficiently accomplished in the frequency domain, the Gabor transform being particularly useful for locating and representing local features (Potzsch, et. al., 1996). The Gabor transform is a sort of normal curve-windowed Fourier transform that localizes its region of support in both spatial and frequency domains. Using a number of Gabor "jets" as basis vectors, the system extracts facial features and represents the face as a collection of feature points, much as the human visual system does.
Because they focus on detailed local features, local image-based methods require high-resolution images as input. However, their use of structural information makes them relatively robust to variations in illumination.
A particularly successful variation on this approach is Elastic Bunch Graph Matching (EBGM) (Wiskott, et. al., 1999), a method pioneered at USC. EBGM first computes "bunches" of Gabor jets at key locations and then performs a flexible template comparison.
The hope and promise of more accurate and robust face recognition seems to hang on the measurement or estimation of faces as 3D objects. Many of the approaches discussed in previous sections could be profitably extended to 3D if the face's 3D structure could be reliably captured.
One way to estimate a face's 3D structure is to use a series of 2D facial images of various orientations. If point-to-point correspondences can be established between different poses, the locations of those points in 3D space can be estimated by triangulation (Vetter and Blanz, 1998). Alternatively, estimation can be formulated as a constrained optimization problem, i.e., to find the 3D shape (a) that is as similar in structure as possible to some prototype or "average" face and (b) whose 2D projections are consistent with the given facial images (Blanz and Vetter, 1999; Romdhani, et. al., 2002). If only one 2D image is available and, importantly, if the subject is illuminated by a single off-center light source, it may be possible to employ the Shape From Shading (SFS) model (Zhao and Chellappa, 2002). This method uses a physical illumination model and the assumption of facial symmetry to estimate a 3D structure.
Since 3D facial representations contain more information than 2D ceteris paribus, they should yield more accurate recognition results, particularly when pose-invariance cannot be assured. 3D representation is, however, still a difficult problem, particularly establishing point-to-point correspondence for a sufficient number of points. Many of the current solutions are hardware-dependent (using multiple or video cameras) and/or require more cooperation from the subject than a single static image.
The task of a classifier in pattern recognition is to compute the probability (or a probability-like score) that a given pattern or example (here, a face) belongs to a pre-defined class. It accomplishes this by first "learning" the characteristics (the parameters of the templates that were computed during the representation step) of a set of "labeled" training examples (i.e., examples of known class membership) and saving them as a "class profile". The template parameters of new query patterns or examples of unknown class membership are then compared to this profile to yield probabilities or scores. The scores are used in turn to determine which class—if any—the query pattern likely belongs to. In spatial terms, classifiers seek to find hyperplanes or hypersurfaces that partition the template parameter space into separate class subspaces.
Machine learning approaches to classification are unreliable or difficult to implement without adequate training examples, the more so when the classifier is required to distinguish between many classes. Although classifiers may perform poorly under such conditions, most can be retrained quickly or incrementally as new examples become available. In the limit, a set with only one example per class poses a pattern matching problem rather than the type of pattern recognition problem discussed here. Strictly speaking, pattern matching routines are not "trained" in the machine learning sense but rather yield a similarity or distance metric in a straightforward manner.
Four major approaches to classification are presented below—all have been used in face recognition applications. They are discussed in order of increasing flexibility and, generally, decreasing ease of training.
One of the simplest classification routines is Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA). In LDA, a discriminant function projects the data such that the classes are linearly separated (as much as possible) in template parameter space. LDA is fast and simple but inflexible.
Based on statistical learning theory (Vapnik, 1998), the Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a fairly recent method that has been shown to be both accurate and (using a linear kernel) quick to train Like LDA, the SVM finds a hypersurface in template parameter space that separates training examples as much as possible. While the LDA computes the separator based on the locations of all training examples, however, the SVM operates only on examples at the margins between classes (the so-called "support vectors"). The SVM can accommodate nonlinear kernels, in effect separating classes by hypersurfaces. Nonlinear kernels, of course, can take much longer to train.
Most probabilistic classifiers use Bayes' formula to estimate the probability that a given template belongs to a specific class—the estimation is based on conditional probabilities (the probabilities of observing the template among all possible templates of the various classes) and prior probabilities (the probabilities, given no other information, of encountering examples from the classes). In the most common version, the templates are found or assumed to be distributed according to a particular probability density function (PDF), typically normal. "Training" in this case consists of collecting the statistics (such as mean and variance) of a set of training examples for each of the several classes. Given the PDF parameters and a query template, the conditional probabilities can be easily estimated for each class.
A Bayesian approach can easily accommodate non-sample information (e.g., in the form of educated guesses) and is therefore well suited to sets with small sample sizes. Under certain plausible assumption and using Parzen windows, for example, it is even possible to "train" a Bayesian classifier with one template per class.
Neural networks have been found to be a very powerful classification technology in a wide range of applications. Mimicking the densely interconnected neural structure of the brain, neural networks consist of multiple layers of interconnected nodes with nonlinear transfer functions. Input values are weighted at each connection by values "learned" in training, summed, warped, passed on to one or more "hidden" layers, and finally to an output layer where the scores are computed.
The power of a neural network lies in its ability to model complex nonlinear interdependencies among the template parameters and to approximate arbitrary PDFs. Neural networks can be expensive to train in batch mode but can also be trained incrementally. Unfortunately, their tendency to overfit the training data, the danger of convergence to local error minima, and the inexact "science" of neural architecture design (i.e., determining the optimal number and structure of layers, nodes, and connections) combine to demand a problem-specific handcrafted trial-and-error approach.
As suggested previously, an image's pixel intensity values may be passed directly (or with local averaging to reduce noise) to a classifier. Used in this manner, neural networks in effect force the task of representation onto the hidden layers.
Method Combination
One intuitive and easy-to-implement approach is to wire together two or more classifiers in parallel and/or in series. In the parallel case, the scores or probabilities of the several classifiers are fed to another classifier (loosely defined) that votes on, averages, or in some other way combines them. Although any standard classifier (e.g., probabilistic, neural) can serve as the combination engine, a simple averager has been found to work surprisingly well in many cases. In series, it may sometimes be advantageous to use an inexpensive classifier to winnow out the best candidate examples in a large set before using more powerful classifiers.
The use of method combination has been motivated by diminishing returns to classifier extension and refinement even as it has been made possible by desktop computing power unimaginable when face recognition was a nascent field. There is no guarantee that this approach will produce dramatic improvements, especially if the upstream classifiers are already accurate. If the classifiers are of distinctive paradigms, however, method combination will tend to take advantage of their differing strengths and return more accurate results.
Concluding Remarks
Having described and illustrated the principles of the technology with reference to specific implementations, it will be recognized that the technology can be implemented in many other, different, forms. To provide a comprehensive disclosure without unduly lengthening the specification, applicants incorporate by reference the patents and patent applications referenced above.
The methods, processes, and systems described above may be implemented in hardware, software or a combination of hardware and software. For example, the processes may be implemented in a programmable computer or a special purpose digital circuit. Similarly, the data representation and classification processes may be implemented in firmware, hardware, or combinations of software, firmware and hardware. The methods and processes described above may be implemented in programs executed from a system's memory (a computer readable medium, such as an electronic, optical or magnetic storage device).
The particular combinations of elements and features in the above-detailed embodiments are exemplary only; the interchanging and substitution of these teachings with other teachings in this and the incorporated-by-reference patents/applications are also contemplated.
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Rebecca McGrew Your exhibition for Hal Glicksman's "Artist Gallery" program at Pomona was from December 12 to 20 in 1969. How did it come about that Hal invited you?
Ron Cooper Let me tell you how I knew Hal. When I was in art school at Chouinard, in the early sixties, there was a guy who was making really cool paintings that had a show at Ralph Stewart Gallery on La Cienega, named Michael Olodort. Through him, I met Phil Hefferton, who was also a pop painter. Through Olodort and Hefferton, I met Hal and Gretchen Glicksman in Pasadena. They knew all the artists living downtown in those lofts.
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RC Ah, no. I got pushed out of Chouinard by John Dean. It was the period, around '64–'65, when Chouinard was going to become CalArts. And Ed Reep, who was the head of the California Watercolor Society and definitely a fifties kind of painter, was the dean of painting at Chouinard. He began to fire cool people like Bob Irwin and John Altoon, and limit the input that we young students had. So we formed a student body organization. I was the representative for the junior year, and we had a meeting in the library. And Disney had six three-piece-gray-suited lawyers walk in. And we said, "Look, we're very happy to take classes from Ed Reep and the old school, but we want young, vital people as well." Anyway, Dean was one of those attorneys, and he said: "Look, we know what's good for your education. You limit yourselves to school dances and art sales. We'll take care of the rest." And I stood up and gave everyone the finger. I said, "Fuck you. This is the end of my formal education."
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RC In '64 or '65. I had been working eight hours a day at Chouinard, five days a week, and eight hours a day in my studio. After this incident with Dean and the Disney people, I was exhausted. It was just before lunch, and I collapsed on the sidewalk, sitting against the wall. All the teachers came out and shook my hand and said, "You did the right thing." I went back to my studio and I took stacks of all the work I had done up to that moment and put it out on the sidewalk for the trash pick-up the next day. I decided that the things that were the most personal to me were a sense of scale; I grew up in a small town—Ojai, California. Instead of the abstraction of the city, where you go north four blocks and then you go east a block, and then north another half block, I grew up where you could see everything. I wanted to deal with a scale that was real, rather than abstract. Ojai is basically a bowl, just like James Turrell's crater.
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RM Was this when you were working on the Vertical Bars?
RC Yes, and the Light Traps. The Vertical Bars had a scale the size of an American four by four (which are really 3 5/8 by 3 5/8 inches) and were seven to eight feet high. I thought a lot about the materials of construction and the tract housing in Southern California, that kind of density and volume. So I began making pieces that related to all these things.
RM Don't the Vertical Bars have many layers of pigment?
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US Soldier Opens Fire on Afghan Civilians: Up to 17 Dead
A US soldier has killed up to 17 civilians in a shooting spree in southern Afghanistan. The Soldier left base in the early hours of the morning and broke into several houses killing many men, women, and children.
Los Angeles Times reports:
Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan — A lone American serviceman slipped away from his base in southern Afghanistan before dawn Sunday and went on a methodical house-to-house shooting spree in a nearby village, killing 16 people, nearly all of them women and children, according to Afghan officials who visited the scene.
The NATO force confirmed that the assailant was in military custody, and that he had inflicted an unspecified number of casualties during the shooting spree at about 3 a.m. Sunday. The U.S. Embassy called for calm and expressed deep condolences; the Taliban referred to the killings as an "act of genocide."
The British Broadcasting Corp. reported that the shooter was a staff sergeant and a member of the U.S. special operations forces who had been involved in training the Afghan police.
The incident, potentially the worst atrocity of the 10-year war to be deliberately carried out by a single member of the Western military, represents a stunning setback to U.S.-Afghan relations, already shaken by last month's burning of copies of the Koran at a U.S. military base north of Kabul.
Anti-U.S. sentiment flared into deadly riots after the Koran-burning at Bagram airfield came to light. American officials have said the action was a mistake and offered profuse apologies, but some Afghans, including lawmakers and senior clerics, brushed aside the apologies and called for harsh punishment of those involved.
The shooting early Sunday took place in Panjwayi district outside Kandahar city, in a village called Alkozai. U.S. military officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it was believed that the assailant had suffered a mental breakdown.
Al-Jazeera reports:
"Eleven members of my family are dead. They are all dead," Haji Samad, an elder from Panjwai district, told the AFP news agency.
Captain Justin Brockhoff, a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), could not confirm any fatalities in the incident.
"This is a horrific incident, and our thoughts are with the families of the affected. Our initial reports indicate multiple civilians – between four and six- are wounded. Those civilians are receiving care at coalition medical facilities," he told Al Jazeera.
"At this point we do not have an indication – we can not speculate about the individual's motives."
Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith, reporting from Herat, said the soldier entered three houses near the base and opened fire on civilians.
"We are now being told by the police sources that the US soldier left his base at three o clock this morning. It would have been pitch-black wherever he walked," he said.
"The soldier went through three separate houses, shooting at people as they slept in their beds. After the soldier shot these people, he turned himself in."
US Soldier Opens Fire on Afghan Civilians: Up to 17 Dead | Common Dreams.


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Monroe dealer introduces incentives
The Monroe Dodge Jeep Chrysler Superstore announced a new promotion, "Let's Keep America Working!" with special discounts, rebates and bonus cash with savings up to $17,500 per vehicle for customers.
The promotion was launched by this individual Chrysler dealer hoping that other dealers will follow its lead and join in its support of American auto workers, said Ralph Mahalak Jr. co-owner of the dealership in Monroe, Mich. and Buckeye Chrysler in Shelby.
"Our country and company needs this business, and we wanted to create some excitement in the car business," Mahalak said.
The new sales program is designed to increase consumer confidence by introducing what Mahalak called "ground-breaking incentives" available at the Monroe dealership through Nov. 30.
In addition to the incentives, customers may purchase one vehicle at promotional prices and buy an additional Dodge Nitro or Jeep Liberty built in Toledo for $11,111.
"This may be a bit of a loss, but everyone has to do their part," Mahalak said. "We're doing everything we can to keep those workers successful.
"We are extremely proud to work so closely with our Chrysler Jeep employees and UAW teams at the Toledo assembly plants,"
The Toledo North and South plants produce the Dodge Nitro, Jeep Liberty and Wrangler models. During the last three weeks, the Monroe dealership has ordered more than 250 cars and trucks in an attempt to "keep America working."
"At the Superstore, there is no credit crunch," said J.P. Mahalak, his brother and co-owner. "We maintain successful relationships with several lending institutions to insure the best credit."
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The 10th annual Sears BracketBuster matchups were announced Jan. 30, revealing that the UT men's basketball team will face Sam Houston State.
Toledo (10-11, 2-5 Mid-American Conference) will travel to Texas to take on the Bearkats (8-13, 2-5 Southland Conference) at 4 p.m. Feb. 18.
This will be the ninth year UT has competed in the BracketBuster event. After winning in its first year in 2004, UT has lost its matchups in the last six years.
The BracketBuster games provide programs the opportunity to play other non-conference opponents about three weeks prior to Selection Sunday.
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Chaplin: A Life in Concert
One actor, one piano, one unforgettable performance. This is "Chaplin – A Life. In Concert", a unique evening of Musical Theater which dramatizes, in song, the life story of the brilliant artist, Charlie Chaplin. The show stars multi-platinum award-winning Performer/Composer, David Pomeranz who portrays more than 40 of the colorful characters in Charlie's life.
Cornfest Family Fun Day
Our popular family picnic returns! Enjoy hot dogs & hamburgers along with roasted corn on the cob, homemade pies, and sweet taffy apples. There will be plenty of entertainment, including games, races, and a fishing tournament for kids. The giant woodpile will be back, so kids can use hammers, nails, and paint to create whatever they want. Make & Take Corn Husk Dolls project. There is no general admission fee, and tickets will be available for all food, drinks, and activities.
CITY:Oak Brook
Art on the Prairie
Celebration of artistic heritage featuring a juried fine art festival and craft show with jewelry, ceramics, paintings, photography, and other mediums available for purchase. This festival also includes artist demos, music, performing arts, a children's station and more!
Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp Live
For the first time, original Broadway and movie "Rent" co-stars Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp come together in a special concert evening. These two Broadway veterans return to the concert stage in a pop/rock evening celebrating their individual musical careers as well as the Broadway cultural hit, "Rent." These two friends and co-stars will share stories about the hit show that brought them together. It's sure to be a popular concert tour following on the heels of their two year National Tour of the hit Broadway show. It's the concert fans have been waiting for!
Rock The Block Party
Please join us in Elmhurst City Centre for great local food, beer and wine and some of the area's best live music! The two day festival will run on Friday, September 11th from 4 to 10:30 pm and Saturday, September 12th from Noon to 10:30 pm. Friday night will feature both American English and 7th Heaven and Saturday night will feature ARRA and Sixteen Candles!
Fall Festival of the Arts
A juried fine art show featuring over 100 artists from all over the Midwest displaying their work of art in the beautiful gardens of Oakbrook Center. Free admission and parking. Oakbrook Center welcomes out of town guests with the Premier Perks.
CITY:Oak Brook
Autumn Festival - An Arts & Crafts Fair
Each show is brimming with row after row of handcrafted, one-of-a-kind home decor & gifts perfect for the fall season. There will be entertainment & plenty of food & drink. Register for hourly $30 gift certificates!
CITY:Villa Park
DeKalb Farmers' Market 20th Anniversary Celebration
The DeKalb Farmers' Market is celebrating its 20th Anniversary! Join us for a special market day of celebration on August 20th from 10 am - 2 pm in Van Buer Plaza in Downtown DeKalb! There will be a Live Lunch Music Series presented by the Egyptian Theatre featuring the Kishwaukee Brass Quintet and drawings throughout the day for a chance to win $20 to use at any market vendor!
All Hallows Eve: A Night of Fear
Experience two of the darkest nights of the year with 12-acres of haunting creatures, eerie entertainment, screaming delights and must-see horrors. Like a haunted house on steroids, this one-of-a-kind experience brings some of the scariest characters of the past, present and future to life. Meet the lost souls of the dead in a haunted happening you won't forget.
Itasca Oktoberfest 2015
Celebrate all things German at Itasca's Annual Oktoberfest including Authentic German food and gift, music, and more! This free Oktoberfest on Orchard Street features a Kids Korner, the Johnny Wagner Band, and the kick off ceremony with Mayor Pruyen. The Jimmy Bavarians play on Saturday. It runs until 11:00 pm both nights.
Batavia Creamery
Enjoy 44 premium flavors of ice cream and sherbet (over 150 flavors rotated). Kid-approved flavors. Non-dairy sherbet options. Homemade waffle cones. Fruit smoothies. Custom cakes. Specialty drinks. And toppings, toppings, toppings!
River's Edge Cafe
More than just a cup of coffee; a place for minds to meet. A well-made latte paired with a scrumptious sandwich? Yes, please! River's Edge Café serves up a strong brew with amazing pastries in the morning and unbeatable soups, salads and sandwiches in the afternoon. The options here are outstanding! They have organic and gluten-free options that are deceivingly delicious.
Military Tribute & Concert featuring USAF Band of Mid-America "Shades of Blue"
The military tribute will honor local first responders, military members and veterans. There will be a presentation a to honor local first responders and a Flag Honor Program with Honor Guard and Taps. There will also be a display of local fire and police equipment and K-9 unit. The evening concludes with a performance by the USAF Shades of Blue Jazz Ensemble playing a free concert.
Cantigny Fall Festival
Enjoy a variety of activities including a Fall craft show, music, hayrides and more. Stop by Bertie's for a taste of autumn with a cup of hot cider or hot chocolate and something decadent to sink your teeth into.
Bolingbrook Jubilee 2015
Families will have a blast at the carnival in the front of Town Center and their Bingo tent on all three days on the grounds behind Town Center. There will be several activities just for the kids and more fun events are being added every day, so stop by in August and join us for a fun weekend!
Glen Ellyn Backyard BBQ
The Glen Ellyn Backyard BBQ Cook-Off will welcome BBQ chefs who want to put their grilling skills to the test in the 7th Annual Glen Ellyn Backyard BBQ Cook-Off. More than 60 teams participate in the largest amateur competition in the state of Illinois, and more than 1,800 attendees enjoyed the event each year. All proceeds from the event benefited the homeless families served by Bridge Communities.
CITY:Glen Ellyn
Mutt Strut 5K Run/Walk-A-Thon & Fun Fest
Mutt Strut is a 5K run/walk-a-thon benefiting TAILS Humane Society. Come out and enjoy a beautiful path through Hopkins Park and then spend the afternoon with us at the Fun Fest. This portion of the event will feature dog contest, dog demonstrations, great food, local vendors, kids activities and mores. The walk/run costs $25 per adult and $10 per youth and the fun fest is free. And don't forget fido, this a dog friendly event!
Cademon Brewing Co.
Cademon Brewing Co. is an up-and-coming craft brewery running a seven barrel brewhouse and fifteen barrel fermenters. Cadamon's 40 seat Taproom features 12 taps dedicated to craft beer and craft sodas, with a Steampunk-inspired feel with our hand-made hammered copper bar top, custom light fixtures, and metalwork galore. Come enjoy a pint or flight and strike up some conversation with your fellow patrons.
Olde North Pancake House
Enjoy your meals with family and friends in our cozy country dining room with a warming fire during the winter months. The atmosphere at the Olde North Pancake House is warm, friendly and filled with items created by local craftsmen for that at home feeling!
CITY:West Chicago
Kishwaukee Valley Art League Holiday Arts & Crafts Market
Experience the Kishwaukee Valley Art League (KVAL) second annual Holiday Arts & Crafts Market being held at the beautifully refurbished "Old Train Depot" in Sycamore, IL. Enjoy the nostalgia and holiday ambiance that are to be found at this event which promises a little bit of something for everyone and every taste. Local artisans have created one of a kind finds that are sure to add to family traditions and start new ones. Some of the items that will be available for purchase are handcrafted jewelry and soaps, pottery, wood work, digital photography, bottle art, glass painting, purses, fine art pieces, note cards and holiday ornaments. Refreshments will also be served.
Guided Walking Tour - Somonauk Street
Join Steven Bigolin as he leads guided walking tours of Sycamore's History District – featuring the beautiful homes along Somonauk Street. Meet at the statue of Wally' Thurow, at Somonauk and Elm Street. Bigolin will lead a tour highlighting the architecture and local history connected to Sycamore. The tour will last about an hour and a half, wear comfortable shoes. Location: Wally Thurow statue (near corner of Somonauk and Elm) Time: 1:00 p.m. Cost: $5 Per Person.
If These Walls Could Talk
Art gallery and custom frame shop. If These Walls Could Talk provides 100% archival quality framing services as well as a gallery for our customers to enjoy, buy, and sell their art. Rotating displays.
YM boutique
Opening its doors in the summer of 2014, owner Jessica Fong was looking to spread her love of fashion to those in the Chicagoland area. Located in the heart of Downtown Aurora, YM boutique is quickly becoming known as a must see fashion destination. YM boutique strives to bring the Midwest the latest trends first and people everywhere are looking to YM for those fashion finds you won't see anywhere else. Come see for yourself why YM boutique is a must stop destination for all your fashion needs.
Rocky Horror Picture Show with Live Shadow Cast
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is an outrageous assemblage of the most stereo-typed science fiction movies, Marvel comics, Frankie Avalon/Annette Funicello outings and rock 'n' roll of every vintage. Rated R. Featuring the live shadow cast of "Irrational Masters". Props that are not allowed are: lighters, candles or flames of any kind, large water guns, toast, hot dogs, or prunes. Prop kits will be available for purchase in the lobby before the show. Saturday, August 15, 2015 at 10:00 pm.


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Robot Johnny (a talented freelance illustrator) provides us with another installment of Celebrity Haikus.
Edward Scissorhands
As cool as they are
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Gilbert Grape
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