Ben Newhouse's Presentation at Emerging Communication Conference & Awards 2010 America

Sci-Fi to Sci-Fact How Computer Vision Will Change AR and the World Ben Newhouse. April 21, 2010.

Sci-Fi as a Lens Space Flight - Jules Verne Weather Control - John Jacob Astor IV TV - H.G. Wells Jetpacks

New Vision: AR

Augmented Reality To abolish the interface between the digital and the real Turn everything you see into the medium

Today’s Topic Sensors deﬁne the reality we wish to augment Computer vision is crucial to this reality

Agenda • Yelp Monocle • Ideas that matter in Computer Vision • A Concrete Example • Conclude

Yelp Monocle • Built by yours truly • Point your phone down the street, see ratings and names overlaid on store fronts • Reality deﬁned by compass, accelerometer and GPS.

Sensor Data is Dirty GPS coordinates are accurate to ~+/-50m (i.e. an entire city block) This is where I actually am

Yesterday Tomorrow

Keep In Mind What piece(s) of hardware is each technology replacing?

Optical Character Recognition iPhone Handwritten Digit OCR circa Fall 2009

Chinese OCR circa ?

Motion Tracking Head-Controlled Mouse Circa Winter 2007

Virtual DJ Deck circa ?

3D Reconstruction UNC Realtime Urban Reconstruction circa Fall 2007

3D Store Inventory Scanning circa ?

Even Simpler Things Need Computer Vision Square Valued at $40 million before launch Provides a audio jack dongle to read cards Struggling to meet hardware demand

Why bother with hardware, when 45 lines of code and a camera will do the same? Credit Card Recognition circa Last Night at 2 a.m.

And Many More Logo and Storefront Recognition Barcodes/QR Codes Medical Image Diagnostics (Cool new Yelp things)

The Revolution Is Happening Now Real-time camera access in iPhone 4.0 (public release in June) HD Video decoding chips can be co-opted for computer vision

In Conclusion Cameras will deﬁne our future augmented reality In doing so they will further the software crusade The restraining factor is not technology, it’s is the ambition to execute. Let’s make Sci-Fi become Sci-Fact Thanks for listening! (follow @newhouseb for more)

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