Hello, David.
Unfortunately I have no experience with JavaScript yet, but since the main 
challenge of the project is the backend part (formula recognition), I can 
get enough JavaScript knowledge before the coding phase starts.
I also think that it would be great to develop Sympy Gamma mobile app for 
the project and I have some skills for this (Java and Android programming).
Now that the idea is confirmed to be useful I'll take a look into the 
issues list, thank you.

среда, 12 марта 2014 г., 20:38:33 UTC+4 пользователь David Li написал:
>
> Hello,
>
> This sounds like a great idea for Gamma. How familiar are you with web 
> development? In particular, do you have any experience with JavaScript?
>
> I would also encourage you to look at the application 
> template<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fsympy%2Fsympy%2Fwiki%2FGSoC-2014-Application-Template&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHo2vVXxypTvp0G5lRmErpTdAsBRQ>
>  and 
> also perhaps contribute to SymPy if you haven't already (as it is a 
> requirement).
>
> David
>
> On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 5:48:21 PM UTC-7, Fedor Morozov wrote:
>>
>> Hello.
>> My name is Fedor Morozov, I'm a third year CS student at Moscow State 
>> University specializing in computer vision.
>>
>> Since touchscreen devices are highly popular nowadays, there are lots of 
>> cases when it's easier to handwrite a formula then to enter it using a 
>> keyboard.
>> State-of-the arts computer vision approaches achieve good results in 
>> formula recognition, so it is possible to implement such a feature for 
>> SymPy Gamma.
>> Along with NLP parsing this would provide a very powerful user input 
>> capabilities.
>> There are already some similar 3rd-party applications for Wolfram Alpha, 
>> you can see an example here <http://webdemo.visionobjects.com>.
>> A more challenging task would be formula recognition from photos, but 
>> that's not necessary right now, I guess.
>>
>> So the proposed project is to implement formula recognition capabilities 
>> for SymPy Gamma, it would also be great to make some interface for 
>> touchscreen input (web/mobile app?).
>> I've recently read a few articles on the topic, if you believe that the 
>> project if useful, I'll come up with a full-fledged proposal and algorithms 
>> review.
>> The easiest (conceptually) approach would be to select some of the recent 
>> articles and code up the algorithm.
>> Than some improvements can be made, for example it would be cool to use 
>> SymPy resources for formula correctness checking.
>>
>> As stated above, I specialize in computer vision, so I'm familiar with 
>> basic algorithms in the area.
>> Now I'm researching feature descriptors, so I have some experience with 
>> shape recognition (for example, shape context), a year ago I worked on a 
>> car plate recognition task.
>> Also last year I participated in GSoC with computational photography 
>> project for opencv library.
>>
>> Thanks for your attention, hope to hear some comments soon.
>>
>

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