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Computer vision camera detecting problem, solution, past and future (linkcabinet.eu)
14 points by jonaslund 3182 days ago
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I've got 99 problems, and some solutions, but a clue what this is isn't one.
Idea for an app (what I thought this was going to be): you take a photo of your problem. That can be that your tie is untied, your plug's fuse is blown, your cable is frayed, your haircut is bad, your kid is having a tantrum, you've got five ingredients for dinner but you don't know any recipes, even some kind of problem you can see but don't know how to describe. The app uses some computer vision and heuristics to say "I think your problem is dandruff" and then does an appropriate web search and presents a video or a paragraph explaining a solution.
That's something for Watson. (the computer)