otaviogood

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by otaviogood 13y ago
Word Lens needs a lot of light. If there isn't enough light, the scene will have noise and motion blur. That's bad for the OCR algorithms. The camera also makes a huge difference. As cameras get more sensitive, the noise and motio
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by otaviogood 14y ago
They might allow non US citizens to compete as long as the primary point of contact for the team is eligible to compete. This is how I remember they did the Darpa shredder challenge.
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by otaviogood 15y ago
We have been meaning to do that but have been distracted by real life. Hopefully we'll get it together soon. I'll post a link on HN when we do.
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by otaviogood 15y ago
Big thanks to Hacker News for helping us win the DARPA Shredder Challenge. That's where some of our team heard about the challenge in the first place and that's where we found out about the yellow dot patterns that gave us a huge advantage
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by otaviogood 15y ago
Where do you think I found out about the yellow dots? I was stuck on puzzle four and procrastinating by reading hacker news. Just in time, there was an article here about the yellow dots. I looked at the shredded pieces and they were there
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by otaviogood 15y ago
The third place guy posted an explanation of his algorithms here: http://www.marcnewlin.com/2011/12/you-should-probably-start-... I was on the winning team and we have been writing up our algorithms too. Hopefully we'll be able to post th
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by otaviogood 15y ago
I got a patent for some of the stuff that went into Word Lens (augmented reality translator). I think software patents are awful, but I feel like I need to play the game that's currently in place. A significant part of our company's startup
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by otaviogood 16y ago
The designer who made the logo said he was going for a passport look. My brother made the video. He also did the music in the video. He's pretty good with that stuff.
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by otaviogood 16y ago
Thanks for the positive feedback (I'm one of the developers). We never imagined we'd win the internets!!! :P About the word for word thing, that is mostly correct to say it's word-for-word. We have just a few short phrases in there, like "p