Re: robot status update, request for more feature ideas

["William Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

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: Linards Ticmanis wrote:
: >I understood you as saying that it actually recognizes
: > objects in the sense of "this is chair, that over there is a table, this
: > here is a human foot" etc.
:
: It has this ability...  I don't know what to do with it yet.  Pictures
: of objects
: are stored on disk...  You can put one of the objects in front of the
: camera,
: and the software will attempt to match it to one of the pictures in
: memory/disk..
: Kinda like OCR, but with pictures instead of text...  One of the major
: problems
: is that it will only recognize the object if it is in the same
: orientation as the "template"
: stored in memory.


I would imagine that distance from the object plays
a major role in that also. You would need to enable
it to resize, and rotate the stored image to verify
whether it is one that it is seeing. Then it would
stand there and do this for some time before it has
come to a conclusion.

William Garber
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