[access-uk] DIY 'Descriptive Camera' captures images, prints out prose -- Engadget
- From: Gordon Keen <gordonkeen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:22:49 +0100
Interesting, although the description examples are a bit mundane and vague but
I guess it's in the eye of the beholder.
a project that could be turned in to something of use with a bit of help to
turn it in to speech.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/25/diy-descriptive-camera-captures-images-prints-out-prose/
DIY 'Descriptive Camera' captures images, prints out prose
Have you ever wished that cameras could capture not only an image of the scene
in front of them, but also describe it to you in plain English? Ok, what if it
bypassed the whole "photo" thing and just spit out a slip of paper with words
on it? Well, if you're still interested, the impressive Matt Richardson (of
Make fame) has a project right up your alley. The Descriptive Camera is a
relatively simple device really. A Logitech webcam is connected to a BeagleBone
dev board, which is in turn plugged into a thermal printer from Adafruit.
Obviously, the tech required to analyze a scene recognize the objects then
convert that pile of pixels into a slice prose is outside of the budget and
capability of your average DIY project. So Matt turned instead to Mechanical
Turk, Amazon's marketplace for HITs or Human Intelligence Tasks. Images
captured by the cam are uploaded via the BeagleBone, where an actual person
describes what he or she sees and the resulting literature is printed out. For
more details and images check out the source.
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