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Kittydar – Face detection for cats

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Re: Kittydar – Face detection for cats

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Post by Sunlis »

hinathan wrote: post #4
mikeevans wrote: post #2

Drag and drop in the demo doesn't seem to work for me (Win 7/Chrome 19). Otherwise, awesome.

Ditto for Mac/Safari. There must be something diabolical and/or useful to do with this tech but I'm struggling to come up with a good use case other than 'because kitty'

I found that I couldn't drag the sample images into the box, but dragging from my file system did the trick.

Still failed miserably when detecting the faces though (and I was even using one of their test images).

Re: Kittydar – Face detection for cats

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Post by mmoche »

JonWood wrote: post #8
runjake wrote: post #5

I tried a few different photos of multiple cats. It'd always get 1 correct positive, but never more than 1 correct positive. In every image's case, it would have multiple false positives in a cat's fur patterns. Here's one example: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--RBVfn6FzOI/Tq5kOxFGKEI/AAAAAAAACn... Neat start, though. I have a particular interest in this subject as I'm entertain schemes that allow our cats into our garag…

Your cat may already have an RFID tag - they're used in the process of "chipping" cats so that they can be traced if they find themselves at a vet without their owner. If there is one, it'll be on the back of their neck.

These tags tend to migrate, particularly in older animals. Shelter workers are trained to check the entire animal as the tags often end up on the animal's side or stomach.

Re: Kittydar – Face detection for cats

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Post by showerst »

hinathan wrote: post #4
mikeevans wrote: post #2

Drag and drop in the demo doesn't seem to work for me (Win 7/Chrome 19). Otherwise, awesome.

Ditto for Mac/Safari. There must be something diabolical and/or useful to do with this tech but I'm struggling to come up with a good use case other than 'because kitty'

Aside from the earlier mention of 'I want to just let my cat into the house to the exclusion of others' I think it's interesting because if you're not in the computer vision world, you don't see a ton of stories or demos about detecting things other than human faces in pictures.

Re: Kittydar – Face detection for cats

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Post by lallysingh »

hinathan wrote: post #4
mikeevans wrote: post #2

Drag and drop in the demo doesn't seem to work for me (Win 7/Chrome 19). Otherwise, awesome.

Ditto for Mac/Safari. There must be something diabolical and/or useful to do with this tech but I'm struggling to come up with a good use case other than 'because kitty'

Some unmanned spray bottles hooked to cameras would be useful for some mice I know.

Or malicious pups.

Re: Kittydar – Face detection for cats

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Post by BryanB55 »

I love how simple the photo uploader is. I'm currently working on a new upload system for my site, does anyone know how compatible a drag and drop system that automatically shows the image like that would be? Does it work in all browsers? IE? It seems to work in all of my browsers but my target users are not very computer savy and usually have IE7, 8 or old computers.

Re: Kittydar – Face detection for cats

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Post by ot »

Also check out this project, it is going to be presented at ICML2012 in a couple of weeks:

http://research.google.com/archive/unsupervised_icml2012.htm...

they trained a huge neural network with millions of unlabeled frames from Youtube, and derived high-level features. The authors showed that the network learned without supervision the concepts of human face, human body... and cat.

Re: Kittydar – Face detection for cats

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Post by jerf »

runjake wrote: post #5

I tried a few different photos of multiple cats. It'd always get 1 correct positive, but never more than 1 correct positive. In every image's case, it would have multiple false positives in a cat's fur patterns. Here's one example: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--RBVfn6FzOI/Tq5kOxFGKEI/AAAAAAAACn... Neat start, though. I have a particular interest in this subject as I'm entertain schemes that allow our cats into our garag…

"I'm entertain schemes that allow our cats into our garage while locking neighborhood cats out": http://www.quantumpicture.com/Flo_Control/flo_control.htm
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