[ml] Hi

[Mike Schachter]

Hey Alexi,

Sounds pretty cool. Have you checked out the mobile robotics
toolkit? I haven't used it but MC Hawking (the semi-autonomous
wheelchair robot at Noisebridge) uses it:

http://www.mrpt.org/

Idris, that sounds like a pretty cool project! If you're doing image
processing, you might want to look into OpenCV:

http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/

They have some built in machine learning algorithms for
classification (i.e. here's an image, does it contain a tennis
court or not?)

http://opencv.willowgarage.com/documentation/cpp/ml__machine_learning.html

You would need to feed it examples that are already trained
though. I wonder if you could use it's 2D feature extraction stuff
to algorithmically decide if it's a tennis court or not?

Either way - how about you guys come in this Wednesday at 7:30
and talk about it?

  mike


 Jul 18, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Idris Raja <idris.raja at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Alexi,
> I'm in the same boat as you are. I'm a competent Python coder and learning
> R.
> While searching for an empty tennis court yesterday with a friend, we struck
> upon the idea of using satellite imagery to  map every tennis court in the
>  US. I'd imagine that the distinct lines on a tennis court would make it
> easy to recognize using image recognition algorithms. Is this in fact true?
> If anyone wants to work on this project or another using AI and machine
> learning, I'd be very interested.
> -Idris
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Alexi Kostibas <alexi at kostibas.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hey all,
>> I'm interested in getting some hands-on experience with AI algorithms (GA,
>> neural nets,) robotics (ROS?) and getting my head more in that space in
>> general.
>> I have varying levels of experience with C++, Python, Java, but no
>> AI/robotics libraries as of yet.
>> Basically, if there are any classes coming up, or projects needing a hand,
>> I'm in! :)
>> -Alexi
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