# HG changeset patch
# User Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
# Date 1389886223 18000
# Node ID dfcbbb3d4b9aa14f11c4f3b723c7e11d6e5fcf4b
# Parent  036fe1b1312093970d0fa7a0007d189555206a80
save adelson ideas.

diff -r 036fe1b13120 -r dfcbbb3d4b9a org/adelson-notes.org
--- a/org/adelson-notes.org	Fri Oct 04 14:49:04 2013 -0400
+++ b/org/adelson-notes.org	Thu Jan 16 10:30:23 2014 -0500
@@ -66,8 +66,6 @@
 
    Horn, technical report, 1970
 
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 * Fri Oct  4 2013
 
   Student report. Talked about how you capture the appearance of a
@@ -93,6 +91,26 @@
   objects made of different materials. The images were gathered off of
   Flikr. 
 
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+  Then she gave another talk from someone else. It's about assigning
+  materials to objects and then rendering them. The choice of
+  materials is determined by some sort of expert system?
 
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+  They have made a neat looking interface for human entry of texture
+  labeling or objects in scenes. The important elements were manual
+  labels, dynamic display of the current selection, and undo.
+
+  There are papers about mechanical turk engineering.
+
+  lol http://opensurfaces.cs.cornell.edu/
+
+  CUBAM is interesting 2010 "The multidimensional wisdom of crowds."
+  "Neural Information processing systems" some sort of voting scheme.
+
+  The point of this is apparently to do some kitchen makeover
+  thing. You would take a picture of your kitchen, or you would look
+  for a kitchen that looks like yours, and then you would be able to
+  investigate different textures for your own kitchen.
+
+  apparently "Label ME" has never been appropriately
+  crowdsourced. Turns out that you get better work if you don't use
+  idiots to do the work lol.
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diff -r 036fe1b13120 -r dfcbbb3d4b9a org/ideas.org
--- a/org/ideas.org	Fri Oct 04 14:49:04 2013 -0400
+++ b/org/ideas.org	Thu Jan 16 10:30:23 2014 -0500
@@ -31,6 +31,14 @@
 getting credit.
 #+end_quote
 
+- pronuncation guide :: a simple webpage where you type in a word and
+     it returns a simpe, English sentence describing exactly how to
+     pronounce the word. For people who don't want to learn IPA. 
+
+- touch vision :: inspired by GelSight, I want to reexamine cortex and
+                  see if I could implement touch as a very low range
+                  form of vision.
+
 - high school science :: this is a lesson in scientific ethics. The
      goal is to calculate /g/, the local gravitational
      acceleration. The students are told that the textbook says it's