Daily CVPR - Thursday

CVPR Expo 11 CVPR Daily: Thursday We noticed a cute demo at MorpX and decided to go and see it. Tian Li was kind enough to tell us all about it. Tian Li: I am the founder of MorpX. We are making a vision sensor for toy robots. The vision sensor uses machine learning to detect different objects like faces, bars, and lines using them to control the toy robots. CVPR Daily: What is novel in it? Tian Li: The novelty is that it’s making all of these algorithms run inside tight, small packaging embedded system. Also, its arm contact sensor with 72 megahertz frequency. CVPR Daily: What was particularly challenging in doing this? Tian Li: The challenge was making all the right hardware and software because the existing library cannot fit into these kind of systems. CVPR Daily: Does it make any difference to work with toys? Tian Li: There are lots of fun stories because we are working with toys. When the algorithm is defected, then everything falls apart! So it’s fun. CVPR Daily: So everybody plays in the office? Tian Li: Yea! CVPR Daily: What is the next step for your application? Tian Li: We are trying to push these products to classrooms for kids to have easy access to vision sensors to create some more fun robots. Our product is already in the market and you can reserve it online right now at our website. “ everybody plays in the office ” This black little robot has learned to hit down only when he is shown a ball. He does not react to any other object, no matter how hard we try!