Accelsense.org (accelerometer-based gestures)

[Vasco Névoa]

I forgot to mention: 7 - device rotation (for screen orientation and  
OpenMooCow)!!!! :)

Citando Vasco Névoa <vasco.nevoa at sapo.pt>:

> Hi Paul.
> Your tenacity is indeed an example. Congratulations on the fusion of
> your academic and hacking lives! :)
> I don't want to burden you even more, but I'd like to remind you of a
> couple of details that may turn out to be important in the long run.
> One thing I would like to see come true is the implementation of an
> accelerometer framework that is flexible enough to accommodate all
> kinds of usage, not just gestures, and you are basically sitting on it
> (horay!!!). :)
> Examples:
> 1 - human gestures;
> 2 - seismic vibrations (distributed earth quake detection), see [1];
> 3 - travel "dead reckoning", whether of humans, human-powered
> vehicles, or motorized vehicles;
> 4 - road comfort level and trail quality level assessment (Z-axis
> vibration for geo map tagging);
> 5 - morse tapping (for awkward emergencies, you never know...);
> 6 - anything else you may think of in the future...
>
> My point is, please at least _try_ to include in your design some kind
> of easily extensible framework, possibly allowing dynamic plugins or
> at least compile-in modules, and package your specific gestures work
> as the first modules. And obviously, the ability to support multiple
> kinds of listener clients at the same time. I know it is a lot to ask,
> but I think it is very well worth it.
> The future community will thank you very much! :)
>
> Happy hacking!!!  :D
>
> [1]
> http://n2.nabble.com/Idea-for-Openmoko-application%3A-seismic-sensor-network-tp1106366p1106366.html
>
> Vasco.
>
> Citando "Paul V. Borza" <paul at accelsense.org>:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> A couple of people asked me whether I will or won't continue my
>> project on accelerometer-based gestures.
>> My answer was always yes, and to make that clear, I've bought
>> accelsense.com, and accelsense.org.
>> The code has moved from http://code.google.com/p/accelges/ into a GIT
>> repository located at http://repo.accelsense.org.
>>
>> I'm now in the first year of masters, and I've managed to get two of
>> my courses into the accelerometer-based gestures (i.e. to implement
>> this as homework).
>> From now on, my professors require me to use SOMs (i.e.
>> self-organizing maps, a type of neural networks), instead of hidden
>> Markov models.
>>
>> A couple of you guys asked whether the efficiency and speed can be
>> improved using HMMs. Again, the answer is yes, just that I don't have
>> time to work on the HMM implementation anymore.
>>
>> Just wanted to let you know that from now on, I'll focus exclusively
>> on working with the Neo, rather than the Wii to test the gestures; and
>> make them smooth and natural.
>> Nokia is using SOMs for gesture recognition in mobile phones, so we
>> should be on the technology wave as I can tell (still, I'm just one
>> guy).
>>
>> What I'll focus on in the 0.2 release:
>> * use some code from the rotate application that is flying around.
>> * keep the current Dbus system for interaction.
>> * 10% of CPU (it's now using 20%), and yes it's doable.
>> * no GUI, but change the text console UI to be something like 'top',
>> and not just printf hundreds of xyz data.
>> * reintegrate with matlab-compatible diagrams.
>> * will still be in C99 and under LGPL.
>> * math formulas that are used in code will have a link to
>> http://wiki.accelsense.org/wiki/<page> and the formula will be written
>> in LaTex.
>> * some of you gave me advices on how to improve the organization of
>> the project, will also do that.
>> * some dependencies aren't checked, there are too many you say, will
>> be removed.
>> * integration with the freesmartphone.org Dbus FSO communication
>> system (I've seen that it grew since I last checked it).
>> * implementation of self-organizing maps.
>>
>> Bottom line: I'll be trying turn it in a mature project ;)
>>
>> You can do interesting things with SOMs, like Nokia was doing:
>> detecting when the user climbs down, up or walks, just using an
>> accelerometer.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Paul
>>
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