If you haven't experienced Kinect yet, do yourself a favor and just go do it! For people who have just landed on earth, Kinect is a motion sensing device for Microsoft XBox 360 video game console. You can check out the video here. Instead of using buttons or controllers to play video games, this device enables … Continue reading Connecting With Kinect
Category: Machine Learning
Uncovering The Hidden Treasure
Before we start, I want to clarify that this post is not about treasure hunting! As you read along, the title will start making sense. In one of my previous blog posts, I have discussed speech recognition and a few ways to model the problem. I have also talked about how we can use machine learning … Continue reading Uncovering The Hidden Treasure
Touch Me Not
We are increasingly moving towards touchscreen technology. Every new mobile gadget that's coming to the market has a touchscreen. Most of us interact with touchscreen technology on a daily basis. I'm sure you would have gotten curious some time or the other to know how it actually works. What happens when you touch the screen? … Continue reading Touch Me Not
Looking Into The Future With Google Glass
Unless you shut down all your gadgets and hid yourself in a dark alley with absolutely no connection to the rest of the world, you would have heard that the Google I/O conference started on June 27. It is one of the most exciting events in the realm of tech innovation. Google came up with … Continue reading Looking Into The Future With Google Glass
I Came. I Heard. I Understood.
I'm pretty sure all of us have encountered a speech recognition system in our lives. Speech recognition is used in smartphones, automated customer service, and many other high-end gadgets. It's being increasingly integrated in many devices to provide a better hands-free user experience. Apple came up with Siri for iPhone and most of the Android … Continue reading I Came. I Heard. I Understood.
Oblivious Machine, Thou Shalt Learn
Why do we want machines to learn? What do we want to them to "learn" exactly? There is a lot of misunderstanding regarding the concept of machine learning. Is machine learning just robots learning how to walk and talk? Is it just machines learning how to do a particular fancy task? Not exactly. I thought I … Continue reading Oblivious Machine, Thou Shalt Learn
Perpetual Enigma 