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by jpb0104 14y ago

mehuln 14y ago
Our app works locally on your pc/mac so no webcam images ever leave your computer.
- jpb0104 14y ago
  Cool. I was curious and figured others would be as well. I like the idea. Effect on battery life? App is free, what's the model?
  - onedev 14y ago
    It's basically a front for all the cool research they're doing behind the scenes in Computer Vision (the company consists of 3 PhDs). The app itself isn't necessarily to make money. Think of it as a technology demo that's cool and can be used by anyone to demonstrate the research they're doing (though most people just think of it as a cool app, they don't know the backstory). I'm almost certain they have a bigger picture for the long term.
    - mehuln 14y ago
      We indeed have a bigger vision. That said, this is the first niche use case that we wanted to solve. Actually, we have significant number of daily & weekly active users who use this product everyday. We've tracked (through analytics) 25M gestures already. We have 5 star rating on mac app store, users in 150+ countries worldwide and large number of users (more than many mobile apps)! We will be releasing volume gestures very soon to complete basic remote gestures for the app. We are also working mute, like, and scrolling gestures. Flutter is product driven research company. Meaning that our mission is to take Computer Vision research and use engineering to turn this into real usable apps. Use cases that real users have send us emails about: Dance Teacher - playing/pausing and replaying song from distance while practicing. Surgeon - Listening to music while doing a medical surgery. Architects - Listening to music from distance while building your models. Students - listening to music while reading from bed or while laying down. Father - using Flutter to control music while rocking his baby. Usability is in freeing you from your computer!
  - mehuln 14y ago
    On average our app uses about 5-7% of your CPU and cameras are very efficient in terms of power consumption so impact is same as keeping your browser on. App is free because it is incomplete (i.e. lacks few gestures). We will start charging for it once we add all the gestures!
- alexhaefner 14y ago
  Is there anywhere you detail your methods? I'm currently finishing up an appearance based hand detection method for a class and would be interested to read about your methods.
  - dchichkov 14y ago
    Curious, which method are you using in your course project? Have you tried some "standard" approaches, like Felzenszwalb et al?

Webcam on all the time concerning to you too? Privacy info: https://flutterapp.com/privacy/ https://flutterapp.com/privacy/

by jpb0104 14y ago

Webcam on all the time concerning to you too? Privacy info: https://flutterapp.com/privacy/ https://flutterapp.com/privacy/

mehuln 14y ago

Our app works locally on your pc/mac so no webcam images ever leave your computer.

jpb0104 14y ago
Cool. I was curious and figured others would be as well. I like the idea. Effect on battery life? App is free, what's the model?
- onedev 14y ago
  It's basically a front for all the cool research they're doing behind the scenes in Computer Vision (the company consists of 3 PhDs). The app itself isn't necessarily to make money. Think of it as a technology demo that's cool and can be used by anyone to demonstrate the research they're doing (though most people just think of it as a cool app, they don't know the backstory). I'm almost certain they have a bigger picture for the long term.
  - mehuln 14y ago
    We indeed have a bigger vision. That said, this is the first niche use case that we wanted to solve. Actually, we have significant number of daily & weekly active users who use this product everyday. We've tracked (through analytics) 25M gestures already. We have 5 star rating on mac app store, users in 150+ countries worldwide and large number of users (more than many mobile apps)! We will be releasing volume gestures very soon to complete basic remote gestures for the app. We are also working mute, like, and scrolling gestures. Flutter is product driven research company. Meaning that our mission is to take Computer Vision research and use engineering to turn this into real usable apps. Use cases that real users have send us emails about: Dance Teacher - playing/pausing and replaying song from distance while practicing. Surgeon - Listening to music while doing a medical surgery. Architects - Listening to music from distance while building your models. Students - listening to music while reading from bed or while laying down. Father - using Flutter to control music while rocking his baby. Usability is in freeing you from your computer!
- mehuln 14y ago
  On average our app uses about 5-7% of your CPU and cameras are very efficient in terms of power consumption so impact is same as keeping your browser on. App is free because it is incomplete (i.e. lacks few gestures). We will start charging for it once we add all the gestures!
alexhaefner 14y ago
Is there anywhere you detail your methods? I'm currently finishing up an appearance based hand detection method for a class and would be interested to read about your methods.
- dchichkov 14y ago
  Curious, which method are you using in your course project? Have you tried some "standard" approaches, like Felzenszwalb et al?