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Thanks William. This is an area I think I'm going to pursue. I'll
probably try the standard that AMD/Radeon uses because I tend to use
their devices. I'm curious how something like OCR would use
OpenCL. Are there standard neural network calls that can easily
plug into something like Google's open source OCR?<br>
<br>
I'm just asking that rhetorically. I'll look it up and see for
myself. If anybody else is interested in this area, we should have
an offline discussion.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Omar<br>
<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/9/2015 7:05 PM, William Tracy
wrote:<br>
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<p>A quick search for GPU OCR turned up tons of articles, the not
much in the way of off-the-shelf implementations.</p>
<p>The buzzwords you're looking for are GPGPU (general purpose
GPU) and "GPU compute". The two languages competing in this
space are OpenCL (Open Compute Language, the open standards
option) and CUDA (nVidia specific). Both have a C-like syntax.</p>
<p>Be aware that even if you're working with a Linux host, there
are basically no FOSS options in this area. AMD, Intel, and
nVidia all have stacks that are buggy in different and exciting
ways.</p>
<p>William Tracy<br>
Sent from mobile, may contain typos.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 9, 2015 4:24 PM, "Omar Eljumaily"
<<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:omar@omnicode.com">omar@omnicode.com</a>>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Has anybody
tried video image processing? I think something Raspberry Pi
is not practical for video processing. Even most desktop
systems don't work very well for this in my experience.
Specialized hardware is generally necessary as far I can tell.<br>
<br>
Are there cheap specialized image processing chips these
days? I know that GPUs have crossover applications for things
like Bitcoin mining. Does anybody have experience in that
realm?<br>
<br>
One reason I'm asking is that I currently have an application
that needs fast OCR. We seem to throw more and more hardware
at it and it's always too slow.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Omar<br>
<br>
On 2/9/2015 2:31 PM, jezra wrote:<br>
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by using GNU Linux, I can easily expand the system to do
what I need it<br>
to do. Such as:<br>
1. connect a camera and check on the chickens remotely<br>
2. open and close the door using my mobile phone<br>
3. check the temperature in the coop and turn on a lamp if
needed<br>
4. play a special tone to signify that the door is about to
close<br>
<br>
Most importantly, using GNU Linux lets me use the skills I
already have<br>
and allows me to program in the language of my choosing.<br>
<br>
On Mon, 09 Feb 2015 13:34:18 -0800<br>
"Robert P. Thille" <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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On 02/08/2015 05:57 PM, jezra wrote:<br>
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I'm working on a GNU Linux powered chicken coop door. :)<br>
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Heh, using Linux for something like that seems like
swatting a fly<br>
with a bazooka. I'd think that's a job for a ~$1
Microchip PIC and a<br>
RTC chip, or even just do the time keeping in software...<br>
<br>
Robert<br>
<br>
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On Sun, 8 Feb 2015 19:21:12 -0500<br>
Zack Gold <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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wrote:<br>
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Only as much detail that doesn't breach NDAs!<br>
<br>
I'm not doing anything particularly interesting at
work myself that<br>
involves Linux, but I'm curious about others input.<br>
<br>
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