[opencog-dev] Re: [hansonrobotics/HEAD] ROS NMPT Salience Detector: Degree Values and Salient Feature Tracking (#117)

2016-08-10 Thread Ben Goertzel
For sure we all want to go further! But we need to demonstrate moderately cool stuff in the immediate term, and this saliency detector (appropriately leveraged within Psi rules) should be helpful in that regard... On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Linas Vepstas wrote: > OK, well, if you just writ

[opencog-dev] Re: [hansonrobotics/HEAD] ROS NMPT Salience Detector: Degree Values and Salient Feature Tracking (#117)

2016-08-10 Thread Linas Vepstas
OK, well, if you just write a teensy sliver of code that simply turns the head towards any direction where something "sufficiently salient" happened, then sure, that makes for a livelier, more entertaining demo. And so maybe that is worthwhile. But it also keeps her at the "dumb robot" level, reac

[opencog-dev] Re: [hansonrobotics/HEAD] ROS NMPT Salience Detector: Degree Values and Salient Feature Tracking (#117)

2016-08-08 Thread Ben Goertzel
Hi LInas, many of your suggestions are good ones and should be added to the list However, the "visual saliency" term was not invented by us -- and the addition of this saliency detector was especially suggested by David H because in his prior work he has found similar code to be useful with his ro

[opencog-dev] Re: [hansonrobotics/HEAD] ROS NMPT Salience Detector: Degree Values and Salient Feature Tracking (#117)

2016-08-08 Thread Linas Vepstas
Oops, hit "send" on the email too soon. Perhaps the #1 most important thing on the list is the "sudden change in brightness" detector. During the demos people either cover her camera or get up in her face, and say things like "can you see me now", and I would really like to have the robot know w

[opencog-dev] Re: [hansonrobotics/HEAD] ROS NMPT Salience Detector: Degree Values and Salient Feature Tracking (#117)

2016-08-08 Thread Linas Vepstas
I have multiple issues with the so-called "saliency detector" in this pull request: https://github.com/hansonrobotics/HEAD/pull/117 that I'm thinking its better to discuss these in general, rather than simply in the context of one pull request. So:... On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 10:06 AM, natnaelarga