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Sorting Lego Bricks using Computer Vision AI (Use Case)

For #transformationtuesdays I’m sharing another use case for Artificial Intelligence using Computer Vision.

This is the world’s first universal Lego sorting machine by Daniel West, and here you’ll see a demonstration of it in action, as well as the details as to how it works.

What makes this interesting is that the typical image classifiers you’ll see work on 2D images. But this sorter works on 3D real-life Lego bricks, which makes it more challenging.

Moreover, it has the ability to classify even Lego pieces that it has not seen before!

In fact, that’s what makes it AI, as otherwise, perhaps you could just simply hardcode every Lego brick piece into the program as if it were just a rules-based task.

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How Artificial Intelligence allows the Blind to “See”

Last Friday we talked about some Artificial Intelligence Basics, specifically Computer Vision.

So for today’s #transformationtuesdays I’ll share with you a specific use case where Computer Vision is being used, together with Natural Language Processing to describe to a blind person what is in their surroundings.

It can read text, answer certain questions, and even identify sentiment and emotion on the faces of the people in front of them.

If you haven’t seen this yet, then now is the time to check it out.

If not, you’re missing half of your life.

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Artificial Intelligence Basics: What is Computer Vision?

It’s #futurefridays and today we’ll be talking about the basics of Artificial Intelligence.

If this catches on, I might even turn this into a series!

For this first installment, I’ll be talking about Computer Vision.

Wikipedia defines Computer Vision as:

Computer vision is an interdisciplinary scientific field that deals with how computers can be made to gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos. From the perspective of engineering, it seeks to automate tasks that the human visual system can do.

Let me show you some examples of how Computer Vision is being used in real-world scenarios.

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Innovation: How the Deaf-Blind can use a Mobile Phone. Or can they?

It’s #FutureFridays and today we talk about one of the latest innovations from tech giant Samsung.

Imagine, what if you are living in this current age, but you lack the ability to see the world around you, hear the people talk to you, nor speak back to your family or loved ones.

What would your world be like?

That’s the kind of world a Deaf-Blind person lives in.

Thankfully, Samsung has come up with their latest innovation to solve this problem.

Read on to see how it works, and watch the video demo. I assure you, it won’t disappoint.

And if your eyes don’t swell in tears after watching it, you have no emotion.

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How can OCR (Optical Character Recognition) become AI (Artificial Intelligence)? Here’s how.

Alright, it’s #FutureFridays and today’s topic is OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and AI (Artificial Intelligence).

OCR has been around for quite some time already, and is widely considered as mainstream technology.

OCR is simply the ability to have a machine convert text from a scanned document or image into machine readable format.

In a sense, it is a simple form of “Artificial Intelligence,” but because it has become mainstream technology already, most people no longer consider it to be a subset of AI, even though technically, it is, as it is part of Computer Vision.

How OCR really becomes AI is dependent on what you do with the machine readable data after the conversion process.

Let me show you an example of a how a company took OCR technology to the next level with AI.

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Automating Invoice Processing via OCR, RPA, and Machine Learning (Use Case)

Alright it’s #transformationtuesdays so here’s another use case for you, this time regarding Automation.

Invoice processing is a fairly common task done by small, medium, and large business alike.

It is also one of the tasks that takes a lot of effort to do, despite being very repetitive and rules-based.

In this use case video, you’ll see how the following technologies have been used altogether to automate the tasks involved in invoice processing:

  1. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to convert the scanned documents or images into machine-readable format
  2. A Machine Learning algorithm to learn how to recognize patterns and keep improving the automation
  3. Note that exceptions that the automation cannot understand will go to humans for processing, which will then also be fed into the Machine Learning algorithm to teach it how to recognize those patterns moving forward
  4. Finally, RPA (Robotic Process Automation) to complete the remainder of the rules-based process such as transfer the information into various systems

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How to turn your Blog Post into a Video using A.I. Automation

You may have noticed that I’ve been doing a lot of videos lately, though it’s mostly me talking while on camera giving you some valuable content.

If you want to see them, and follow me, I’ve been posting them on my LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook pages.

For the most part, what I’ve been doing is adding videos to compliment some of my most recent blog articles.

What I’ve found is that there’s actually an Artificial Intelligence platform that you can use to turn blog posts into videos automatically!

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I need your help – TRAIN MY PROCESS IMPROVEMENT PERSON

After all the feedback, responses, and inputs I got, I’m very close to finishing the long-awaited program which will be called TRAIN MY PROCESS IMPROVEMENT PERSON. I have been working on this for almost a year, and I’m planning to release it in the next few weeks.

This program will be entirely focused on how you or your process improvement person can acquire the highly-valued skillset of being able to find and solve for opportunity areas to improve, streamline, and automate areas in your business to reduce cost and increase revenue – skills that are absolutely essential in the field of Management Consulting.

It will include a private coaching community as an add-on, which will allow you to:

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