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I am interested in knowing what others think of the idea of establishing a group of individual collaborators operating outside the realm of university and corporate structure to pursue automated visual intelligence (object recognition, face recognition, scene understanding, etc.). All perspectives (pro and con) are welcome. Thank you.
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Do you mean as an hobby? Or a side project? What's in computer vision that's outside academy or private corporation? -
Hello,
I am thinking of a hobby-level interest at first that has the potential to turn into a business later. For example, start with a somewhat simple (but still challenging) project at first then building on the results of that to achieve more difficult visual intelligence objectives. As a specific example: develop software that could recognize plant leaves. Put up a web page allowing users around the world to upload plant leaf images. At first users help train the system by providing plant names; later the system becomes a resource for those seeking name of an unknown plant -- just one possible example. Based on this example a small group of 4 or 5 would be needed: 1) vision algorithm skills, 2) code writing, 3) web-development, 4) plant knowledge, 5) web-based business knowledge.
Thanks for your interest in this discussion! -
I finished my PhD and put some Image Feature algorithms online https://code.google.com/p/jfeaturelib/ as it bored hell out of me that I had to reimplement SO much stuff from scratch as most of the publications never provide sourcecode or binaries.
Some are just wrappers from lire others are copied from the web (with permission from the according authors).
I already used it for some private image classification.
If you want to use or even contribute .. just go ahead ;)
