Wait.. why?
If you were a company developing a product based on this, why would you want an AWS logo stamped on top?
AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera for developers
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Re: AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera for developers
#42This is neat but sort of strange - I love the idea of a hardware package that makes fiddling with deep learning easy, but I wonder why Amazon went through the trouble of producing such a relatively niche product? If I had to guess, this is going to be a great "user education" tool for AWS, designed to get new developers on the platform as early in the learning process as possible.
Considering the engineering and manufacturing investment in this product, it's hard to see where they are expecting their ROI. It certainly won't be from the product sales themselves, and since the target market seems to be individual as opposed to corporate developers, I wonder if increased use of AWS is going to generate enough revenue to offset the costs.
Re: AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera for developers
#43Related: I recently came across the "Google AIY Voice Kit for Raspberry Pi" in the Adafruit store: https://www.adafruit.com/product/3602 That, as well as this new "AWS DeepLens", look like interesting kits/toys to try out new on-device and hosted systems for voice processing and computer vision. Then again, I assume you have to buy these knowing that the hardware will likely cease to work in the next year or two or t…
Well, with the Google AIY kit, as it's Raspberry Pi based, you have the ability to do what you want with the hardware. It's really just a microphone and speaker on top of it. At some point you could run offline models to take voice input and output intent. What you then do with that is up to you. What the cloud services provide are common lookups, such as searching wikipedia, your calendars, etc. You'd need to implem…
Just read from the site FAQs that it does support SSH.
Re: AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera for developers
#44The tiny JeVois smart camera has been doing this for a while now, and lots of other kinds of computer vision too, although in a smaller and lower resolution device, also much cheaper at $49 and fully open source.
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#45Shameless related plug : We recently developed a deep-learning powered 2-axis-gimbal for a webcam : https://github.com/GistNoesis/Linn-Photobooth . We do use deep-learning either for deep-art or for pose tracking. I guess we can probably control the gimbal with this new camera though I'm not sure It will be able to process deep art. In my other usages, usually I have multiple cheap webcams with cheap board (IP cams o…
That sounds cool, but after reading the webpage I am still not sure what it actually does. It prints a picture, you can change art style, what's the point of the gimbal?
The gimbal allows you to orient the camera (avoid people to touch the lens with greasy fingers), it can be substituted by a cheap 3d printed piece for manual adjustment if the functionality is not needed.
It has some awe effect, and is fun with kids. It makes the camera more alive, specially in the tracking mode.
The gimbal allows you to shoot videos where you are always at the center. We think this may grant some freedom of movement to some video makers and make their video more dynamic without the need of a buddy filming them.
Also this project has a DIY component to it, so doing the gimbal is a great introduction to robotics.
Re: AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera for developers
#46Wait.. why? If you were a company developing a product based on this, why would you want an AWS logo stamped on top?
I think it's more of a devkit. Not something you build a consumer product around.
Re: AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera for developers
#47This is neat but sort of strange - I love the idea of a hardware package that makes fiddling with deep learning easy, but I wonder why Amazon went through the trouble of producing such a relatively niche product? If I had to guess, this is going to be a great "user education" tool for AWS, designed to get new developers on the platform as early in the learning process as possible.
Because they open everything they develop and in this case they want to see innovations happen around their new home cameras! Which they use already with deliveries.
Don’t forget the weird fashion selfie cam.
Re: AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera for developers
#48This is neat but sort of strange - I love the idea of a hardware package that makes fiddling with deep learning easy, but I wonder why Amazon went through the trouble of producing such a relatively niche product? If I had to guess, this is going to be a great "user education" tool for AWS, designed to get new developers on the platform as early in the learning process as possible.
A gadget to hook you into using their ML cloud?
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please submit a post about this project, with juicy details!
Sure will do, mostly I've been training squirrel recognition models on my laptop and also learning what it takes to run those models on the raspberry pi (low frame rates) with OpenCV. I did also buy one of these though https://www.adafruit.com/product/997 so once I get everything running I may also have videos of squirrels being sprayed by the garden hose :)
You might want to take a look at project ELL that runs DNNs on Raspberry pi: https://github.com/Microsoft/ELL