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Maker Faire Bay Area 2009
Numenta's Vision Systems

Stage A , Saturday 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Numenta is releasing a Vision Toolkit in June that will enable hobbyists to train their own vision system based on our technology. Users will need to train the system with a collection of images, much like humans learn by being exposed to visual images. After training they can present new images (e.g. through a web cam or by dragging image files) to see if the network can recognize them. They can then embed this feature into their own website. It won't be perfect, but I think it will be the first time that computer vision will become really accessible to end users without a specialized degree.

Web site: http://www.numenta.com/

About the Maker(s)

Dileep George
Dileep George is a co-founder of Numenta and its Chief Technology Officer. Dileep has worked closely with Jeff Hawkins in extending and expressing Jeff's neuroscience theories in mathematical terms. His PhD thesis provides a detailed study of the HTM technology and its mapping to biology. Dileep holds a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Bill Atkinson
A member of the original Macintosh team at Apple, Bill Atkinson is an inventor, a neuroscience researcher, a software developer, and a nature photographer. Bill is currently assisting Numenta with their HTM platform.