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Klaus Kragelund

Jan 1, 1970
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Hi

Just for fun, looking into a DIY project, but which could spin off to a commercial product, I am looking into image recognition.

For the application I would need the unit to recognize an object. The reference object would be stored in a database with a picture from different angles, and the SW would compare an observed picture to the reference images and product a percentage match figure.

The image would not be a simple figure, but could be of different sizes andcolors, but with the same fundamental shape. The image could for example be a tree, and the system would need to determine what kind of species it was and report the match figure.

So, knowing little of current developments, it this feasible or would that be 10 years into the future?

NI Labwindows has image recognition SW but I thing it will only cover basicshapes

Google has some advanced function in Google Photos:

http://googlesystem.blogspot.dk/2013/06/how-googles-image-recognition-works..html

But, this is in google´s realm, and they could drop that service from dayto day and that would then be a showstopper

Any insights?

Cheers

Klaus
 
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Martin Riddle

Jan 1, 1970
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Hi

Just for fun, looking into a DIY project, but which could spin off to a commercial product, I am looking into image recognition.

For the application I would need the unit to recognize an object. The reference object would be stored in a database with a picture from different angles, and the SW would compare an observed picture to the reference images and product a percentage match figure.

The image would not be a simple figure, but could be of different sizes and colors, but with the same fundamental shape. The image could for example be a tree, and the system would need to determine what kind of species it was and report the match figure.

So, knowing little of current developments, it this feasible or would that be 10 years into the future?

NI Labwindows has image recognition SW but I thing it will only cover basic shapes

Google has some advanced function in Google Photos:

http://googlesystem.blogspot.dk/2013/06/how-googles-image-recognition-works.html

But, this is in google´s realm, and they could drop that service from day to day and that would then be a showstopper

Any insights?

Cheers

Klaus

Have you looked into OpenCV. Its fairly easy to make a wrapper for
calls from LV. My next project is to update some old LV wrappers to
the latest OpenCV.
<http://opencv.org/>

The original code is from Intel.

Cheers
 
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Tim Williams

Jan 1, 1970
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Down to the *species*?

The gross morphological differences between phenotypes within a given
species are almost always comparable to the gross differences between
species. Or in other words, just because it's bushy on top and woody on
bottom doesn't tell you what species it is. Let alone other forms, like
some species (more than others) can be trained into, or will naturally grow
in, a bushy or even bonzai shape. To say nothing of arborism, heh.

Tim

--
Seven Transistor Labs
Electrical Engineering Consultation
Website: http://seventransistorlabs.com

Hi

Just for fun, looking into a DIY project, but which could spin off to a
commercial product, I am looking into image recognition.

For the application I would need the unit to recognize an object. The
reference object would be stored in a database with a picture from different
angles, and the SW would compare an observed picture to the reference images
and product a percentage match figure.

The image would not be a simple figure, but could be of different sizes and
colors, but with the same fundamental shape. The image could for example be
a tree, and the system would need to determine what kind of species it was
and report the match figure.

So, knowing little of current developments, it this feasible or would that
be 10 years into the future?

NI Labwindows has image recognition SW but I thing it will only cover basic
shapes

Google has some advanced function in Google Photos:

http://googlesystem.blogspot.dk/2013/06/how-googles-image-recognition-works.html

But, this is in google´s realm, and they could drop that service from day to
day and that would then be a showstopper

Any insights?

Cheers

Klaus
 
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RobertMacy

Jan 1, 1970
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Any insights?

Cheers

Klaus

There are aps available right now for the blind. Use your android, or
cellphone, to look at an object and it will tell you what the object is.
 
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Jasen Betts

Jan 1, 1970
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There are aps available right now for the blind. Use your android, or
cellphone, to look at an object and it will tell you what the object is.

a dude in a callcentre identifies it and tells you (and NSA etc) what it is.
 
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Klaus Kragelund

Jan 1, 1970
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This task is simple. It could take a lot of computing though.

I don't think it classifies as simple, certainly limited material is available and what I have found sofar indicates that the success ratio of the recognition engine is not that impressive
Do you need to match entire object against database or do you have to

split object into components to classify it?

Could be both, but I guess it would be better to have the entire object. If the algoritm splits the task up in smaller images is another matter.
It depends. Basically this is a question of how much computation you can

afford and if there could be shortcuts to reduce computation.

It is for a robot. So I would aquire an image, send it to the server and let the server do data crunching and return with tags describing what is present in the picture. I do not think the function can be embedded into a simple embedded platform.
Very basic and trivial stuff.






What do you really need?

Well, I need a robot to be able to distinguish between different objects, that's the basic function

Cheers

Klaus
 
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