So – would you let somebody listen in to all your meetings to stop having to take your own notes?
voicea – Turn talk into action
What forms of informal or formal permissions will we need to establish as we start having automated systems that could be listening in to our every conversation and producing notes?
Just adding a note to myself for a topic to dig into at some point. – Collective Efficacy but mentioned in a way as to be less controlling as the definition found on the wikipedia page.
A Google Talk that is worth listening to:
I was on my weekly bike ride through downtown as I noticed the new signs warning that the autonomous vehicle testing will be taking place in downtown Austin, TX. Was it a coincidence that I was able to ride through the 3rd street corridor in the bike lane in one smooth reasonably timed swoop? Or… will the city be taking this as an opportunity to use the bond funding we passed to place some well timed additional effort into making the light timing and traffic flows predictable and free flowing? Getting things as predictable as possible would help reduce the problem set a bit for this initial testing as well as making life easier for the humans in this system.
Here’s hoping it was intentional.
NVidia has announced impressive progress in using AI to remove noise from “grainy” images without access to a clean version of the image to learn from.
By noise – they tend to refer to the grainy result of a low light digital photo, a side benefit being that they can also easily remove textual noise. Currently, the result is “softer” than the original clean image, but I’m curious whether it will end up causing issues with watermarking or other copy protection schemes. At what point will “good enough” be sufficient for a derivative use when we deal in low resolution imagery on the web all the time?
Many of us in collections rely on the use of watermarks to make openly sharing our collections more palatable to our donors. Already, we have to warn them that there is no low barrier way to really prevent unattributed image reuse… This is simply going to make that conversation even more difficult.
We’ll need a robot navigation system that will allow it to get around the inside of the library and roam the stacks.
Open Autonomous Domestic Robots – An open source system for domestic cleaning robots using low-cost hardware
How to build a robot that “sees” with $100 and TensorFlow
Carmen Robot Navigation Toolkit
Mobile Robot Navigation on Partially Known Maps using a Fast A Star Algorithm Version
Mobile Robot Vision Navigation & Localization Using Gist and Saliency
I have images of stacks of books – can I detect the spines? Can I get the call numbers?
Combining Image and Text Features: A Hybrid Approach to Mobile Book Spine Recognition
(combine text recognition with comparing to known images of book spines)
Automatic Book Spine Extraction and Recognition for Library Inventory Management
Discussion on the OPENCV forum
Matching book-spine images for library shelf-reading process automation
Mobile augmented reality for books on a shelf
Viewpoint-independent book spine segmentation
Identifying books in library using line segment detector and contour clustering
A review of Augmented Reality and its application in context aware library system
Interesting approach to make sharing your location verbally easier. GPS has more resolution, but is almost impossible to share quickly without some sort of electronic handshake.
How What3words pinpoints every spot on Earth for better navigation
Note to Libraries colleagues – this company currently has a staff of 12 just to manage and encourage the use of this single set of three-word terms…
“We make money by a tool that converts three-word addresses into latitude and longitude” (spoken by Sheldrick in the CNET interview)
Lest you say – “well, that’s interesting – but I think the terms we use should be in the public domain…” may I refer you to Patent #9883333
Getting a start on digging into robotics platforms for a project I’m thinking through.
Collecting some resources to dig into further later:
Open Robotics
(Robot Operating System – and Gazebo (a tool for simulating indoor and outdoor robots)
Poppy Project
Open Source platform (humanoid)
Arduino Vs Raspberry Pi – Which is Better for Robotics Projects?
Cool! And perhaps just a tad bit creepy.
Just saw this over at the New York Times blog. I’ve had my issues with memory myself so things like this spark my interest pretty quickly. It seems that all this multitasking we do may be screwing with our precious short term memory… uhoh.
