On Wednesday 15 October 2008 06:06:40 Paul V. Borza wrote: > Hi everyone, > > A couple of people asked me whether I will or won't continue my > project on accelerometer-based gestures. > My answer was always yes, and to make that clear, I've bought > accelsense.com, and accelsense.org. > The code has moved from http://code.google.com/p/accelges/ into a GIT > repository located at http://repo.accelsense.org. > > I'm now in the first year of masters, and I've managed to get two of > my courses into the accelerometer-based gestures (i.e. to implement > this as homework). > From now on, my professors require me to use SOMs (i.e. > self-organizing maps, a type of neural networks), instead of hidden > Markov models. > > A couple of you guys asked whether the efficiency and speed can be > improved using HMMs. Again, the answer is yes, just that I don't have > time to work on the HMM implementation anymore. > > Just wanted to let you know that from now on, I'll focus exclusively > on working with the Neo, rather than the Wii to test the gestures; and > make them smooth and natural. > Nokia is using SOMs for gesture recognition in mobile phones, so we > should be on the technology wave as I can tell (still, I'm just one > guy). > > What I'll focus on in the 0.2 release: > * use some code from the rotate application that is flying around. > * keep the current Dbus system for interaction. > * 10% of CPU (it's now using 20%), and yes it's doable. > * no GUI, but change the text console UI to be something like 'top', > and not just printf hundreds of xyz data. > * reintegrate with matlab-compatible diagrams. > * will still be in C99 and under LGPL. > * math formulas that are used in code will have a link to > http://wiki.accelsense.org/wiki/<page> and the formula will be written > in LaTex. > * some of you gave me advices on how to improve the organization of > the project, will also do that. > * some dependencies aren't checked, there are too many you say, will be > removed. * integration with the freesmartphone.org Dbus FSO communication > system (I've seen that it grew since I last checked it). > * implementation of self-organizing maps. > > Bottom line: I'll be trying turn it in a mature project ;) > > You can do interesting things with SOMs, like Nokia was doing: > detecting when the user climbs down, up or walks, just using an > accelerometer.
An impressive effort and a great example to us all :) Well done! Sarton _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
