The Status Quo Of Computer Vision 69
prostoalex writes "The Industrial Physicist sums up the recent advances and developments in the world of computer vision. They mention an application for human-computer interfacing using a Webcam, Philips Research Lab Seeing with Sound product, which augments vision for visually impaired, as well as various frontal face detection applications."
Artificial intelligence in under 20 years (Score:5, Interesting)
Type a sentence like Zork, and it makes the scene for you.
Give it a book, and it could turn it into a movie for you.
Vision recognition has a great many uses already, but when vision recognition matures, you'll be able to take a scene and reduce it into 3d reality space. You take the 3d reality space, and give the computer some goals, and its trying to accomplish something in the world.
Thing is, it won't stop at plain vision, you'll get infared, sonar, ultraviolet, radar, all that crap to get the best 3d image possible.
So since vision is progressing, the gap towards AI is shrinking. Also as video games become more realistic, the AI gap is shrinking. I could be bold and say 15 years from now we should have basic AI.
Re:Artificial intelligence in under 20 years (Score:2, Interesting)
Not to mention the realtime 3d mapping... the processor load(think of pixar's server farm) would be crazy... even with Moore's Law, this is atleast 10+ years before anything remotely like this can be made decent quality on the normal desktop.
I think the idea is awesome, and the level of AI amazing. But keep things realistic, your realtime book->movie program won't be around in 20 years, I just don't see it happening.
Researcher's Perspective On "Big Brother" (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Some of the posts on here are getting a bit vap (Score:3, Interesting)
Shape models and combined models take this into account and are really popular in medical imaging, yet the facial people seem to shoot down. (Well it's antidotal on my part).
Sorry, I guess I'm geeking out, but I love this stuff.
Eye Tracking (Score:4, Interesting)