http://strongsteam.com/ is the service based on this talk - an AppStore for A.I. algorithms and data mining techniques. Presented at BathCamp July 2011.

1. An AppStore for A.I.
MorConsulting.com
@ianozsvald
Ian Ozsvald (ian@ianozsvald.com)

2. High level 'Lego'
• Optical Character Recognition
• Image recognition
• Face detection and recognition
• Speech to text
• Text to speech
• Classification
• Visualisation
Ian Ozsvald (ian@ianozsvald.com)

3. Low level
• Text, images, (streaming) video, audio
• Basics tools like erode, blur, resize, crop
• More fun tools like line & circle detection,
contours, points of interest, similarity
• Easy access to C++/Matlab/R libs
• No need to write C++/Matlab/R
• Trivial training
• Scalable
Ian Ozsvald (ian@ianozsvald.com)

4. Code example 1
resp = conn.request_post('/images',
{'imagefile':open('img.png', 'rb')})
image_id = resp['body']
URL = '/images/' + image_id + '/p/ocr'
resp = conn.request_post(URL,
params={'passes': 12})
resp = conn.request_get(URL) # JSON ->
[{params: {'passes':12}, text =
[('some', 10), ('text', 8), ('found',
5), ('in', 4), ('image', 4) ...
Ian Ozsvald (ian@ianozsvald.com)

5. Code example 2
imgf = open('img.png', 'rb')
imgr = conn.post_image(imgf)
imgh = imgr.get_handle()
imgh.ocr(passes=12)
text = imgh.get_result() # ->
[{params: {'passes':12}, text =
[('some', 10), ('text', 8),
('found', 5), ('in', 4), ('image',4)
...
Ian Ozsvald (ian@ianozsvald.com)

6. Some of our use case
• Artwork detection via mobile phones
• OCR with TTS on mobile phones
• OCR on images and video for search
• Product similarity and image comparisons
• Single/multiple website authors
• Web cam + FourSquare -> no privacy
Ian Ozsvald (ian@ianozsvald.com)

7. Your use cases?
• Make stuff more searchable
• Increased SEO, translatable
• Logo detection in images/video
• Duplicate image/video checking
• License plate checking
• Auto crop faces, reject bad photos
• Prototype mobile services
Ian Ozsvald (ian@ianozsvald.com)

8. Closed alpha coming
• A.I. -> your work -> more fun?
• Python + Ruby + PHP + ???
• We want:
– (paying) users
– hackers being creative (Arduino?)
– kids being creative
Ian Ozsvald (ian@ianozsvald.com)

9. Funding
• Do you know B2B / proper-tech investors
• Crowd fund components
• Need to find the paying users
Ian Ozsvald (ian@ianozsvald.com)

10. Help we need
• Your use cases
• Hackery and demos
• Publicity
• Language bindings
• Please join the mailing list
Ian Ozsvald (ian@ianozsvald.com)

11. Thanks
• MorConsulting.com
• @ianozsvald
Ian Ozsvald (ian@ianozsvald.com)