I am going to try to engage Subutai and Jeff today and will follow up.
 There was a lot of previous experimentation with vision so no point in
trying everything again.


On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Hideaki Suzuki <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Scott san,
>
> Thank you for your comment and clarification.
>
> In that sense, would JIRA be the better place to gather pieces of
> information for discussion?
>
> I have a few more ideas of enhancement for 2D input; local inhibition,
> boosting,... ,etc.
> (from software perspective)
>
> Best Regards,
>
> 2013/8/14 Scott Purdy <[email protected]>
>
>> You are correct that a separate scalar encoder for each pixel would not
>> be a good method. You would want to create a vision-specific encoder which
>> may do a number of preprocessing techniques to capture the semantics of the
>> data.  You would also want to use topology in the SP (currently the default
>> is global inhibition).  And I believe that hierarchy is somewhat important
>> to vision problems, although may not be necessary for some problems (I
>> don't really know).
>>
>> This is a pretty big task in general.  We have been talking about putting
>> up details around some domains like vision and NLP to help guide research
>> so we will follow up if we can get something like that together for vision.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Hideaki Suzuki <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Hello people,
>>>
>>> Today, I've got one idea in my mind.  Do you have any opinion or
>>> interest for this?
>>>
>>> Nupic uses scalar encoder to feed numbers to SP, IIUC.
>>>
>>> If we want to feed an image to SP, each pixel has an integer value and
>>> the number of pixels are large.  It sounds not so easy to me that we
>>> convert
>>> million pixel values through scalar encoder and feed them to SP.
>>>
>>> Can dithering work as the encoder?  I mean this.
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dither
>>>
>>> Our brain recognizes a black & white binary image as if it is a
>>> grayscale image
>>> after dithering.  Does our retina convey the intensity of light in a
>>> similar way of
>>> dithering...?
>>>
>>> # I was a bit away from ML due to a business trip.  I hope I can be more
>>> active now. :)
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>>     Hideaki Suzuki.
>>>
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