[ml] Hi

[Alexi Kostibas]

Thanks Mike, I'll definitely stop by!

Idris - I have no projects in mind at present, so if you want to try to pair
up on this I might be interested. We can chat Wednesday.

Thanks all,

-Alexi

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Mike Schachter <mike at mindmech.com> wrote:

> 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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