[ml] next week: kinect or heritage health prize?

[Krishna Sankar]

Mike et al,
 Am new to the group - your plan looks fine. Would be good to hear from
next week From Anthony and then dive into Kinect algorithmics.
 Algorithmics is important. Timely, as I am trying to connect the AR Drone
and Kinect http://youtu.be/watch?v=KBBCMudnAKM

Cheers
<k/> 

On 4/8/11 Fri Apr 8, 11, "Mike Schachter" <mike at mindmech.com> wrote:

>Eh, I was just going to read through the kinect paper
>and pull apart the algorithms that make it work, and
>present them. I'm all theory and no implementation :(
>For now..
>
>Seems like the guy who runs Kaggle (Anthony Goldbloom)
>wants to show up next week and talk about stuff, on the
>eve of the Heritage Health prize being launched via Kaggle
>and all that. We worked on a Kaggle competition before
>and keep an eye on the site so it'd be great to meet him
>and hear more about it.
>
>  mike
>
>
>
>On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Brian Morris <cymraegish at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The thing I like is (1), however I probably can't make it next week !
>>Note
>> though that the Kinect at NB looks to be permanently attached to the
>>robot
>> ... (unless there is another I don't know about).
>>
>>
>> How about that for the following week ?
>>
>> Actually the other thing interests me too. I could try and get my
>>obligation
>> moved to another day, I don't know if I can though.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Mike Schachter <mike at mindmech.com>
>>wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey everyone!
>>>
>>> I was wondering what would maximize the interestedness
>>> for next week's meetup? I could put effort into presenting
>>> for the following choices:
>>>
>>> 1) Figure out how the kinect actually works:
>>>
>>> http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/145347/BodyPartRecognition.pdf
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNkbG3KsY84
>>>
>>> 
>>>http://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/2176-kinec
>>>ts-ai-breakthrough-explained.html
>>>
>>> 2) Take a stab at understanding what needs to be done for
>>> the Heritage Health competition:
>>>
>>> http://www.heritagehealthprize.com/c/hhp
>>>
>>> Or both?!?
>>>
>>>  mike
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