I've seen this project on youtube and it's awesome. Very futuristic project and it is perfect for the office, restaurants, coffee shop or even at home. I was really amazed in it's concept and purpose. A user friendly and a super multitasking project that makes me say like, Wow! I've only seen this project in movies but now it's real.
Thank you so much. The key is in the computer vision. Other similar systems use infrared sensors that can detect human fingers on a room-temperature background. Or 3d sensors using lasers that can detect object size.
Because we use just a normal smart phone camera we can detect room temperature objects on room temperature background ( a pen on a table !) or flat objects on a surface ( a piece of paper on a table !).
But to make this work we need to train a computer to recognize objects. Think like a baby: you show them a paper and say paper!. The baby answers goo gaa gaa. You show again and say paper. Baby says paaaa. Again, again , again, papee, papeeeeer. Until you get PAPER. Then you move on to... pen.
So we need the help from the crowd to source a lot of images with description we can show , not only to Lampix apps, but to anybody else who is trying to use computer vision in other environments or for other applications.
It's a LOT of work. But we demonstrated with thousands of pictures of fingers that we can reach 99% accuracy in detection if we have pictures in the same conditions where you measure (aka same light, and similar background)
So we need... a LOT OF PICTURES, with descriptions.
I can talk about this all day. I guess I'll stop here for now
George Popescu
CEO
LAMPIX