Tracking using Active shape models

A few months back i had done a program which uses active shape models for tracking objects. Following video shows the result of it. Still I need to work on it to make it suitable for commercial use( but i don't have time :( , i need to study some other things related to gender classification ) , but the first looks very much promising to me.

Tracking results using meanshift and bhattacharya distance minimization technique.

In my last post I had said about mean shift algorithm . I  implemented tacking in video frames usiung meanshift algorithm and bhattacharya distance minimaization techniques( ask me if you need more details) . See the video below. ( Video resolution is poor.Please bear with me ).

In my opinion meanshift tracking is not so good,But still it can be useful on some occasions , where you don't want to know the shape of tracking object. It doesn't know anything about the shape of the object.There are other methods exists which are working in shape space and uses the edge detection for shape trasnformation. I have implemented one part of it, need to study some probabilistic modeling for completeing it.

Easy way to Disable IME window in an Win32 Application

In this world of Unicode still we often do non Unicode applications. But there is a feature in windows operating system it allows to enter Unicode characters or characters other than basic ascii character set to our application.So What happens is when user press enter key these unicode characters will turn to "????" .Because our application is non Unicode .

So there is a easy way to disappear this IME window when our application comes to front. Microsoft provides api like

1 ImmDisableIme
2 ImmAssociateContext

So if you want to make disappear the ime window for a particular window in you application , you can use ImmAssociateContext.

like ImmAssociateContext(YourHwnd,0) , If don't wan to use the ime feature at all use ImmDisableIme().

The ImmDisableIme will cause to disable IME for all windows in you application .One important thing you should call this function , before any window is created.
Like ImmDisableIme( GetCurrentThreadID()). For an mfc application the best place to call is from CYourApp::InitInstance() , where CYourApp derived from CWinApp.