Thread: Google Summer of Code

Originally Posted by abachler

I'm busy on this.

I especially like this one:

OBJECTIVE: To develop and demonstrate methods and tools for real time fusion of information from thermal and visual videos of the face for passive characterization of stress, anxiety, uncertainty and fatigue for man-machine interface applications

I can only think of one machine where this kind of feature will be useful in a military context...


Besides, it's hard to hold the US army up to ridicule after reading this:

Diarrhea affects most military personnel deployed overseas, reducing troop readiness and personnel performance. [...] Twenty percent of those affected were unable to perform their tasks while afflicted.

Greets,
Philip

Well, the one I specifically applied for was -

OBJECTIVE: Develop a robotic control system that incrementally learns driving commands based on current sensor
inputs and past experience.

First stage in building the Terminator. Hopefully I will get it and not some PhD that will make a critical error that makes the system think people are roadside bombs or some dumb ........ like that. Neural networks are good for making that kind of mistake, because the ..............s I've worked with never train them correctly and always misapply them to problems that are better solved with hard coded AI.

As for teh stress and fatigue thing, think - pilot stress and fatigue, not automatic torture machine.