That would be great!  Thank you very much.

2013/8/14 Scott Purdy <[email protected]>

> 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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