14 January 2010
Brainstorming notes
Ideas/Concepts/Real world problems:
1) Image processing
2) Facial recognition -> country/region a person is from
3) Aesthetic design problems
4) Fashion coordinator
5) Art -> music, video, illustration
6) Large (huge) image processing, distributing chunks
7) Map building
8) Catastrophe -> earthquake, flood, meteor
9) Emergency response
10) Speech recognition
11) Translation
12) Noise recognition/identification and cancellation
13) Text processing
14) Cryptography
15) Genealogy
16) Software testing
17) Imparting knowledge -> quiz form
18) Data mining
19) News aggregation
20) Wiki/knowledge base
21) Enhancing search engines
22) Movie rating system / other rating system
23) Combinatorics
24) Dietary suggestions
25) Addiction
26) Relationships
27) Religious conflicts
28) Environmental issues -> pollution, wildlife management, water shortages
29) Agricultural issues
30) Starvation
31) Discrimination -> race, gender, sexual orientation
32) Identity theft
33) Collision avoidance of air traffic
34) STEM education
35) Storytelling
36) Machine learning
37) Telling humans and computers apart -> Turing test
EMERGENCY RESPONSE
Types of emergencies: Vehicular accidents, Medical, Natural Disaster, Terrorist attack, Security
- Find the shortest path locally – real time vs. static
o Use a quiz – Ask people what the fastest path is from point A to point B
o Race – Use real maps and have people race from point A to point B; they will most likely use the shortest path
- What do humans know about a local map that computers don't/can't know?
o Quality of restaurants (ratings)
o Best routes
o Safety level of a route (safety rating of a road)
o Scenic routes (beauty rating of a drive)
o Places of interest
o Essentially, the human preference as opposed to statistics
SPEECH RECOGNITION
- Transcription
o Speed typing game
§ Input from people can also be made into a game
· Must be able to split the words in an audio track
o Use pauses in speech to determine separation of words/sentences
o Use metronome type mechanism, like Rock Band, and recordings are done to a beat or a musical rhythm
§ Can verify accuracy by checking answers against many people's answers
§ Input from the National Archives: Is there a need to transcribe old interviews?
· Give the player the freedom to transcribe as much or as little as he wants
· Use the time-stamps for the transcribed section to compare against other transcriptions (to be used for verification purposes)
· Or only give people one word at a time, randomly from different interviews; a player will not hear one full interview
o The faster he can type the transcription, the faster he gets a new word, the faster he can score points
o Eventually will complete one whole transcription
- Sound tags/Identification of human vs. other noise
- Identification of gender
- Identification of multiple people -> distinguishing that a different person is talking
- Teaching tool -> Foreign pronunciation
o Can be used to check pronunciation; Person A uploads a small sample of his speech, Person B listens to the speech and attempts to transcribe what was said, if Person B has difficulties understanding Person A then Person A knows his pronunciation is poor; Person A can then search for and listen to sound clips of a specific word for the correct pronunciation
o Can also practice listening to/understanding/mimicking different accents
o Would build a foreign accent database that would teach the computer how to recognize accents
DESIGN/AESTHETICS
- Composition
- Products (bottle shapes)
- Rating beauty of an image for Google image searches
- Useful for marketing
- Cars
- Building a design from small pieces
o Upload design and get rated by other people
o Gain more complex pieces to build with
o Person will gain feedback on his work; can learn what people like
- Toys / Ideas for toys
o Fun
o Safe
o LEGOs?
- Clothing
o Play dress-up
o Fashion
§ Design baby clothing
o Hair
§ Fix profile pictures with new hair styles
- Architecture /spaces
o Optimize workplace environments for best work
o Aesthetic balance leading to most efficient use of the space
o Optimize the space by trying different sized furniture
FOR RESEARCH:
National Archive
Can computers recognize/pull words from recordings? Does this software already exist?
Translation software/solutions – current technology
Potential game mechanism:
Use a lottery -> the more points people score the more chance they have of winning a lottery
Revolve around human preference that makes sense to other humans ( like beauty, safety, etc )
A visually attractive game is pleasing and can be engaging to the player.
The elements of human:
eyes, ears, a huge database ( experience ).
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