Might take a few weeks depending on when Subutai can find time to put it
together. Follow along here:
https://issues.numenta.org/browse/NPC-310


On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Hideaki Suzuki <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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