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Very inspiring. Why don't someone attempt utilizing all ML advances in driving/OCR to make this work even when offline? This could pre-eliminate lot of cases.
by leowoo91 8y ago
Very inspiring. Why don't someone attempt utilizing all ML advances in driving/OCR to make this work even when offline? This could pre-eliminate lot of cases.
- bcks 8y agoIt's not offline, but the Microsoft Seeing AI app for iOS uses ML to cover a lot of basic use cases like recognizing text, products, currency, describing scenes, etc: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/seeing-ai https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/seeing-ai
- smkelly 8y agoAnirudh Koul, the Seeing AI founder, also recently left Microsoft to go work at Aira.io: https://aira.io/anirudh-koul-joins-aira-as-head-of-artificial-intelligence-and-research https://aira.io/anirudh-koul-joins-aira-as-head-of-artificia... Aira is trying to integrate this kind of technology into smart glasses for the blind.
- jasonhong 8y agoThere indeed is a data set for this purpose. The data is drawn from the VizWiz app, which came out in 2010. http://vizwiz.org/data/ http://vizwiz.org/data/
- lbriner 8y agoDon't underestimate the importance of human-to-human contact. Reminding a blind person that people do care and what can be a very lonely world for those who cannot see! Ever thought about how a blind person strikes up a conversation with a stranger whose body language or eye contact cannot be read?
- leowoo91 8y agoThat doesn't really mean less would be in contact, but has chance to increase number of available volunteers, reducing respond time of the call. I care because I could be blind one day and use it everyday.