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dot point squad:
1. Take a photo or camera feed
2. Analyze for number of objects, and its position.
3. Rank the room by how messy it is (as a decimal ratio )
4. Pipe it into the program so it can do whatever it wants with it
Example Usage:
Your virtual girlfriend decides to come and
visit your bedroom. When she opens her eyes, she reacts accordingly to what your room looks like. For example, she is certainly not going to be impressed with your average teenager's room.
This will help encourage some to keep their room cleaner.
another hypothetical brainwashing game
http://en.wikipedia...he_Next_Generation)
[Voice, May 25 2012]
A Paper on "Surface Roughness and Fractal Dimension"
http://dsp.vscht.cz...atlab01/militky.pdf
Jiri Militky and Vladimir Bajzik discuss signal processing to identify fractal dimension to measure "roughness" in product manufacture quality control - but similar approach could be applied to determining room "tidyness" for the purpose of providing a motivational metric to a virtual girlfriend. [zen_tom, Dec 06 2018]
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If you had included an actual algorithm I would have
been impressed. As the idea stands it barely avoids
my M-F-D |
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This is like saying, "an algorithm for cleaning an entire
house using Asimo hardware" |
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1. Open eyes
2. Process visual input, analyse for number of objects
and their position
3. Rank the room by how messy it is on a scale of
urgency: 1 = smells and looks like something died in a
goodwill store accident / 2 = all right as long as no
one comes in / 3 = imminent girlfriend for unbridled
naughtiness
4. Implement required level of remedial works as
appropriate. |
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Why does it matter how presentable the room is if the
girlfriend is virtual? Can't a virtual girlfriend simply be
programmed to react as if she's just entered the Hanging
Gardens of Babylon? |
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An edge and blob finding algorithm would probably work. As a rule, edges are cluttered spaces, but not neccesarily messy, irregularly edged blobs are almost always mess. |
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// Can't a virtual girlfriend simply be programmed to
react as if she's just entered the Hanging Gardens of
Babylon?// |
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Only if you don't want medium, hard, or impossible
difficulty levels. |
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There's another, much better idea hidden here: a
virtual girl/boyfriend purchased by parents and
designed to influence teenagers. |
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Well of course if there is algae growing in your room of course its cluttered. |
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Why would you want a mythical horse? Oh,
geekiness... as you were. |
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There's a serious problem here in step "2." It's really,
really hard to separate one object from another on a
software basis; this is part of the reason that AI
robotics hasn't gotten terribly far. |
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Also, your algorithm for checking how cluttered a
room is is "feed number and position of objects into
an algorithm for checking how cluttered a room is?"
Really? Oh, that gives me an easy outline of my next
idea! "How to provide cheap energy: 1. Dig up dirt.
2. Pour dirt into a magical mass-energy conversion
device. 3. Cheap energy!" |
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I would pay a zero-dollar bill for this. |
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I knew it would catch on. |
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// There's a serious problem here in step "2." It's really,
really hard to separate one object from another on a
software basis; this is part of the reason that AI robotics
hasn't gotten terribly far. // |
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It's not perfect yet, but it's come a long way in the last 6.5
years. Mask R-CNN, invented by Facebook's AI researchers,
would probably do okay at that task. It came out a couple of
years ago and is open-source. |
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A simple "smoothness" metric might work as a
heuristic replacing "tidyness". This would be a
similar process to to calculating the fractal
dimension of a room. |
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So perform a laser-distance sweep around the room
first and
calculate the anticipated surface area based on the
initial dimensions, then perform increasingly
granular sweeps, collecting distance information. |
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The more fluctuation there is per unit length, the
lower the smoothness, and the less tidy the room
is. |
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I just realized this is a virtual girlfriend idea that isn't by
[beanangel]. |
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// the lower the smoothness // |
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What if the room is cluttered with large numbers of vari-coloured and sized spheres ? |
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