MS Robot tools now free, Robot Operating System open src
This is a quickie – Microsoft have revised the licensing terms for their Robotics Studio – rather than charging it is now free. Their goal is to capture the ‘soon to be huge’ world of robotics...
View ArticleGoogle Group created for the A.I. Cookbook
I’ve just setup the A.I. Cookbook Google Group, the goal will be to bring like-minded souls together so we can chat about ways of making smarter software. If you came here from the original project...
View ArticleInstalling openCV 2.1 with Python bindings on Mac Leopard
I had a tricky time installing openCV 2.1 on my 10.5 Mac (Leopard) recently, the build instructions aren’t brilliant in the wiki. Here are my notes. I used the Mac notes as a guide and followed the...
View ArticleNew logo uses OCR-A
Here’s the new logo for the wiki: This uses the OCR A font, designed in 1968 to allow both machines and humans to read text (available by free download). An OCR B was released in Europe at the same...
View ArticleOpen Allure DS conversational interface (using Python)
Back at Christmas I was speaking to John Graves about his Open Allure DS PhD project – a conversational interface written in Python. The project has moved wonderfully forward over the past few months,...
View ArticleCombined face tracking and speech recognition (Intel research)
Here is a rather neat demo of the advantage of tracking a face whilst performing speech recognition – if the user is looking at the computer then the computer knows to listen. This is common sense to a...
View ArticleOptical Character Recognition webservice work-in-progress
This is a quick progress report on my webservice for optical character recognition using the open source Tesseract engine. This builds on my post a month back ‘Tesseract OCR to read plaques‘. The...
View ArticlepyOpenCV facedetect.py demo (face detection with Python)
When I first played with openCV I had no idea how good the facial detection would be, or how fast it might run on my MacBook. I’m recording this demo so you’ll know what to expect… pyOpenCV is the...
View ArticleReview for Python Text Processing with NLTK 2.0 Cookbook (Packt, 2010)
On my personal site I have a full review for Packt’s new Python Text Processing with NLTK 2.0 Cookbook (Packt, 2010). NLTK is the excellent Natural Language Toolkit. The book is a cookbook with a huge...
View ArticleAll efforts to our new StrongSteam AI/Data mining service
Clearly there have been no new posts here for quite a while – I’ve switched my focus on to another AI project which includes financial backing. As of late 2011 I started work on StrongSteam with my...
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