Disappointment/Euphoria

The library gave me the 1987 version of the book where they put color televisions on a pedestal (sp?). I think I will have to buy this book from ebay, there's just no other way around it. If I'm doing this I am going to have to shell out the big bucks.

Got some Matlab code off the Internet that does a Neural Network with two hidden layers. It does cropping and normalization on a bitmap and trains on it for enough epochs such that error is below some threshold. Then tests on another set of inputs. So far it seems it is working! Oh yeah, it's regarding a character recognition project for my AI course. I will have to change the input, because my training set is already normalized and is not in a bit map form. I hope this makes my life easier. Also, I only need one hidden layer. I wonder if I have to rewrite the feedforward code that Matlab provides in the NN toolbox. Oh well, one step at a time

Something works!!! Step one taken! Happy!

My book came!!

The item(s) that you requested are now available at the location(s) shown below.

Location:       UW Davis Circ Desk.

Title:             Digital image processing / Rafael C. Gonzalez, Paul Wintz.

Author:         Gonzalez, Rafael C.

Item ID:        31188012042996

Call #:           TA 1632.G66 1987

Ima going to have some fun with this book!! Got a lot of stuff due next week but come next Saturday if the week's gone well. I will have some serious one on one time with this book.

This book will go down smoother than milk.  

Books!!

I'm really beginning to enjoy writing to myself!

I just put a hold on an excellent book. It's called Digital Image Processing by Gonzalez et al. Will be cool to have this in my hand after midterms and probably dive into it for a few weeks. Will possibly determine my future! haha Hopefully, it will. I always find/try things I don't like and end up trying new things.

Anyhow, realized all the good data processing courses are in the system design program so I will probably only take one ECE course next term and 3 SYDE courses. That will help me with my mechatronics option too although I doubt I'll be able to complete it.

Anyways, off to sleep! Good day for Bananas! 

Why Bananas!

No, I haven't gone bananas!

I was sleeping the other day and had this idea about edge detection stuff. I am actually pretty interested in this stuff. It's a combination of DSP, AI, fuzzy logic, and pretty much number crunching. I think image processing is a very cool field and I do not mind finding out more about it.

Anyhow, just thought I'd make a post about this in case I forgot about this. Timister and I are going to write some code to detect an apple. From my limited knowledge I have an idea as to how to implement it. Convert image to black/white, do edge detection. Look for edges that have certain characteristics similar to the outline of an apple (certain angles for the arcs and no weird discontinuities). Where there is a weird continuity is probably an area where the stem is. Then once the apple has been sort of detected, verify the color is correct and perhaps do some more analysis as to what kinda apple it is and what sorta orientation. Probably wrote a bunch of junk just now but who knows.. if intuition works in this field, then this is definitely for me!!

Be good if wordpress had a spell checker thingy. Takes much too much time to edite myself. But I guess my writing is improving with each sentence I write. Sweet!