You can use HTM for images, you just won't take any advantage from the temporal pooling (TP), but you can put the properties of SDRs and spatial pooler SP to a good use. There are 2 more recent papers on HTM and vision, one by a Slovak researcher, and one by Eric(k)? Both utilizing SP.
I have some interest in the nupic.vision :) On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 8:51 PM, Sergey Alexashenko < [email protected]> wrote: > That's part of it. Frankly, I am not entirely sure that NuPIC is fast > enough to work well with images in its current implementation (although I'd > love to hear educated opinions on this one). 2048 columns doesn't seem > enough and scaling is exponential. > > Has anyone here actually worked with nupic.vision? ( > https://github.com/numenta/nupic.vision) > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:34 PM, cogmission (David Ray) < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> From what I understand, we have to wait for "Hierarchy" to be added back >> into the algorithm before significant work can be done with HTMs for vision? >> >> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 9:39 PM, Sergey Alexashenko < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> If you look at the citations of the paper you just linked, it cites this >>> <http://www-edlab.cs.umass.edu/cs691jj/hawkins-and-george-2006.pdf> 2006 >>> report. Back then, Numenta used a very different algorithm from what it >>> uses now, even though the name remains the same. I don't know how well the >>> old algorithm worked in image recognition, just be aware that it is not the >>> same as NuPIC, the current implementation of HTM. >>> >>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 10:26 PM, Николай Климов <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello guys. I'm new to HTM and I have a question about object >>>> recognition in images. Every source I've read about HTM said it's a bad >>>> idea because it's not a temporary data. But I've just read master thesis by >>>> Vincenzo Lomonaco ( >>>> http://amslaurea.unibo.it/9095/1/Vincenzo_Lomonaco_tesi.pdf ) where in >>>> some tests HTM beats CNN. Why it works? I ask this because I want to try >>>> implement face recognition task on HTM and wondering is it a good idea? >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> *With kind regards,* >> >> David Ray >> Java Solutions Architect >> >> *Cortical.io <http://cortical.io/>* >> Sponsor of: HTM.java <https://github.com/numenta/htm.java> >> >> [email protected] >> http://cortical.io >> > > -- Marek Otahal :o)
