This is the web page of Mats Sjöberg. I’m a researcher in content-based image and video retrieval. My personal interests include free software and social justice issues. I like reading and programming.

Contact details

E-mail: mats@sjoberg.fi (GPG: 8A9F94D8)
IRC: Sazius on freenode and IRCNet
XMPP: sazius@saz.im (compatible with e.g. Google Talk)
Social: StatusNet Friendica
Location: Espoo, Finland
Personal web: http://www.sjoberg.fi/mats/
Work web: http://users.ics.tkk.fi/mats/

Blog

This web page also hosts my blog. The most recent posts are:

Another StatusNet client for Nokia N9/N950
Posted Saturday, April 07, 2012

Pygame for MeeGo
Posted Friday, April 06, 2012

FSCONS 2011
Posted Monday, November 14, 2011

Software

Here are links to some games and other toys that I have released as free software.

Heebo

A simple but addictive game in the Match-3 genre for the Nokia N9 (MeeGo Harmattan). The game has got over 46,400 downloads on the Nokia Ovi Store (as of May 3, 2012).

Heebo support page
Heebo at the Nokia Ovi Store
Heebo source code on gitorious

Yaics

A very simple identi.ca/StatusNet client in Qt. It also includes a client for Nokia N9/N950, which is usable, but perhaps not quite ready for general adoption.

Download for Nokia N9/N950: yaics_0.1.1_armel.deb (Updated April 26, 2012)

Blog post about Harmattan Nokia N9/N950 client
Yaics source code on gitorious

Daily Comic

A simple web comic viewer. It uses the server maintained by Johan Paul for his WPDailyComic application. My comic viewer is written in Python and PySide.

Download for Nokia N9/N950: comics_0.1.0-1_all.deb

Daily Comic source code on gitorious

Blocks

A Qt-based game inspired by Blocks Mania for iOS. At the moment the basic mechanics are there, I just need to make some levels!

Blocks source code on gitorious

ColourSOM

A Java applet that demonstrates the Self-Organising Map algorithm by using random colours as training vectors.

Run ColourSOM Java applet

Photos

I sometimes put up photos I have taken on this page. All my photos are licensed under CC-BY-SA unless stated otherwise. This means that you can freely use them, modify them and share them as long as you keep the attribution and the same license.

2012

Tapiola, spring — I took some photos in Tapiola, Espoo, on a Sunday in April. (Taken with a mobile phone, please excuse the bad quality.)

2011

Washington D.C. — my second visit to Washington D.C., again before the TRECVID 2011 workshop.

FSCONS — in November I went to FSCONS 2011.

London — in July I visited London together with my girlfriend for our 10 year anniversary.

2010

Washington D.C. — before TRECVID 2010 I had time to visit Washington D.C.

Istanbul — conference trip to Istanbul for ICPR 2010.

Miscellaneous links

I put up some notes on how to set up your own StatusNet instance.

Web pages of friends and relatives

Niklas Gustafsson | Johan Paul | Anders Gustafsson
Åse och Micke | Kjell-Mikael Källman

Organisations I’m a member of

Amnesty | ATTAC | Skepsis ry
Electronic Frontier Finland ry | FSF | FSF Europe
ACM | Pattern Recognition Society of Finland / IAPR
IEEE | IEEE Finland Section | IEEE Finland Section Student and Gold Activities