Predicting Which Hiragana Character You’re Drawing
I tried to take a shot @ the problem shown above. Turns out just high-school level math is sufficient to make a decent classifier for this. In the Japanese alphabet(s), a character is composed of strokes. These strokes have a fixed order. This restriction is pretty much all you need. I grab the stroke’s end [...]
Communicating Through Fingertips – Finger Gesture Recognition Using Depth Data
In Prof. Vishy’s ML class (cs 590 – top notch course, top notch professor), we don’t have a final and instead we are supposed to apply ML to a problem we find interesting. Microsoft gave all of us interns a Kinect this summer so I decided to put it to some use (I don’t have [...]