dude, I went to that presentation too!!! very, very interesting!!! I can't wait til this becomes available!!!!! On 24-Mar-09, at 11:06 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
> > Well, since we're already somewhat off topic, one of the most amazing > presentations I went to at CSUN was a product called SeeScan from a > company called iVisit. It uses a camera image to do object recognition > based on pictures. In the demo they laid out a bunch of stuff such as > cereal boxes, CDs, US currency and all they did was aim the camera to > have it read off what it was. They ran it on some small computer about > the size of an old-school walkman tape player about 1"x5"x7" and a USB > camera. It apparently can handle differing angles, orientations and > lighting automatically and completes the acquisition and recognition > about 4 times a second. So pretty much as soon as they aimed it at a > $5 > bill it started saying "five dollar bill" over and over until they > aimed > it at something else. It can even handle partially obscured objects > such > as a credit card that is partly under a piece of paper. They tested it > with 10 blind users and had 100% success identifying objects. I asked > them about scalability since I might want to have a whole grocery > store > worth of objects loaded up. They said it can handle about 10,000 > images > in a single database. You can swap out databases and each image takes > about 10K after processing (100MB for 10,000 objects). They are hoping > there will be online community swaps of databases so you can share > what > you've already stored. It can 'learn' a new object in about 4 seconds. > You just aim it at the object and hit the learn button and then > associate some text with the object. The work is being done as part > of a > grant from the US Veterans Admin (I think) so they said once it's > out of > the lab it should be cheap because the research costs don't have to be > recouped by the manufacturer. They also have a client/server version > working with a cell phone camera and a remote processing server. > > Sorry for the off-topic but this was pretty incredible and it seemed > few > people came to their presentation. > > CB > > alena.roberts2...@gmail.com wrote: >> I am taking a poll on my blog on how to make U.S. paper currency >> accessible to the blind. In September of last year, a judge ordered >> the treasury to make the money accessible. As far as I know, there >> has >> been no plans to actually change our money. Please visit my blog and >> vote. The poll will be open until the middle of next month. I plan to >> blog about the results and send them to national blindness >> organizations and the treasury department. I think that they need to >> know what the blind community needs before they make any changes. >> >> http://blind-gal.blogspot.com >> >> Alena >>> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
