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This demo by Saqib Shaikh (a visually impaired MSFT engineer) is an incredibly compelling use case of image annotation APIs. I've done work with the Braille In
by e0m 11y ago
This demo by Saqib Shaikh (a visually impaired MSFT engineer) is an incredibly compelling use case of image annotation APIs.
I've done work with the Braille Institute in San Diego, and access to a device like this would truly be world-changing for any of the people there.
https://twitter.com/Microsoft/status/715234653938933761 https://twitter.com/Microsoft/status/715234653938933761
- mwcampbell 11y agoI want this app! I guess it's still a research project though.
- mattei 11y agoI watched that a few times, thanks for the share. Beautiful use of technology.
- ndarilek 11y agoHe mentions some smart glasses in that video, but says it kinda quickly and I can't ID them. Anyone know what they are? As a blind developer myself, I've pretty much been wanting to build this kind of app for a while. Even if facial recognition may not be good enough to identify someone accurately by name, for instance, just hearing "face, blue eyes, blond hair, male, 80% confidence" or something similar would give me a bunch of additional data points to identify someone when they say hello. I don't even know what color my own girlfriend's hair/eyes are. :P I'd love a set of these to develop my own apps with. But this appears to blow all my ideas out of the water. I wonder how much work they had to do to obtain clean input (I.e. how many mis-identifications we didn't see.) Edit: Ah, I guess it's these: http://www.pivothead.com/ http://www.pivothead.com/. SDK and dev kit pricing not available unless I fork over my details. If I have to ask how much it costs, I can't afford it.