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How come I see videos from academics for really really cool things like this. But I can't buy an app that does it?
by rmc 11y ago
How come I see videos from academics for really really cool things like this. But I can't buy an app that does it?
- mintplant 11y agoThis research was partly sponsored by Google, so I imagine the tech will ultimately find its way into the Android camera app.
- adrianN 11y agoBecause academics are paid for papers and turning a paper-ready piece of software into a consumer-ready piece of software is a lot of work that could be spent on writing the next paper. For this particular example I would guess that the implementation is a bunch of matlab scripts that need manual fiddling to work for a particular input. Since you don't have matlab on your phone, porting it is quite difficult.
- dr_zoidberg 11y agoThey mention both the MATLAB scripts and a "C++ windows phone app" developed internally. Don't know about availability though. Indeed, turning paper algorithms into real world usable software is challenging, to say the least.