Re: [PD] OCR with Puredata?

2011-06-02 Thread Alvin Google
On 6/1/11 8:54 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, Alvin O'Sullivan wrote: It is in the early concept stages, but I was thinking that the user interface would be a piece of glass/plastic the input device would be a webcam on the inside of a box/resonator. The ambient light

Re: [PD] OCR with Puredata?

2011-06-02 Thread Jack
Le mercredi 01 juin 2011 à 12:51 -0400, Tedb0t a écrit : Is it just me, or it sounds like it's going to take a lot of preprocessing before you can even think of feeding it to a neural network ? Black/white thresholding and resolution reduction, that's it. I also use grey images and it

Re: [PD] OCR with Puredata?

2011-06-02 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, Tedb0t wrote: Well, that's the beautiful thing about neural nets—it just depends on how you train the net.  If you want the net to be able to recognize tilted letters, you can add tilted letters to the training sets. That would take a damn lot more elements in the

[PD] OCR with PureData : This is a Question

2011-06-01 Thread Alvin Google
Hello All . I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with an abstraction or some built in process being able to handle character recognition on any platform. I mostly interested in running a test on Linux Ubuntu. What I would like to do is have PD react to marks or characters being

[PD] OCR with Puredata?

2011-06-01 Thread Alvin Google
Hello All . I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with an abstraction or some built in process being able to handle character recognition on any platform. I mostly interested in running a test on Linux Ubuntu. What I would like to do is have PD react to marks or characters being

Re: [PD] OCR with Puredata?

2011-06-01 Thread Jack
Hello, You can do this with the use of artificial neural network (for character recognition). There are externals for Pd : http://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pure-data/trunk/externals/ann/ ++ Jack Le mercredi 01 juin 2011 à 17:09 +0200, Alvin Google a écrit : Hello All . I was

Re: [PD] OCR with Puredata?

2011-06-01 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, Jack wrote: You can do this with the use of artificial neural network (for character recognition). There are externals for Pd : http://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pure-data/trunk/externals/ann/ Is it just me, or it sounds like it's going to take a lot of

Re: [PD] OCR with Puredata?

2011-06-01 Thread Alvin O'Sullivan
Super, I will check out the link and sorry for the double post. It is in the early concept stages, but I was thinking that the user interface would be a piece of glass/plastic the input device would be a webcam on the inside of a box/resonator. The ambient light outside of the box (no pun

Re: [PD] OCR with Puredata?

2011-06-01 Thread Tedb0t
Is it just me, or it sounds like it's going to take a lot of preprocessing before you can even think of feeding it to a neural network ? Black/white thresholding and resolution reduction, that's it. Human vision is made of a lot more layers of neurons than we can hope to deal with in

Re: [PD] OCR with Puredata?

2011-06-01 Thread Tedb0t
Whoops, didn't finish this sentence, I was going to delete it anyway, please disregard :) Well, that's the beautiful thing about neural nets—it just depends on how you train the net. If you want the net to be able to recognize tilted letters, you can add tilted letters to the training

Re: [PD] OCR with Puredata?

2011-06-01 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, Alvin O'Sullivan wrote: It is in the early concept stages, but I was thinking that the user interface would be a piece of glass/plastic the input device would be a webcam on the inside of a box/resonator. The ambient light outside of the box (no pun intended) would be