A look at open source image recognition technology
At the Supercomputing Conference in Denver last year, I discovered an interesting project as I walked the expo floor. A PhD student from Louisiana State University, Shayan Shams, had set up a large monitor displaying a webcam image. Overlaid on the image were colored boxes with labels. As I looked closer, I realized the labels identified objects on a table. read...
How citizens become scientists with open hardware
“Every person’s piece of individual information put together gives you a cloud of real knowledge.” Eymund Diegel, a research coordinator for Gowanus Canal Conservancy, shares this tidbit during the first clip of the new Open Source Stories documentary, “The Science of Collective Discovery.” He’s setting out in a canoe on an inner-city canal that is polluted and struggling to get the help...
