[Njtechdiv] iDentifi app

Wed Dec 28 18:32:30 UTC 2016

Hi Les.
Take yourself to the app store.  My iPhone has a link to the app store on
the home screen, and I bet your iPad does, too.  Double tap it.  Look along
the bottom of the screen for the search button and double tap that.  Look
along the top for the search field and double tap that.  You should then get
an onscreen keyboard near the bottom, where you can type the name of what
you want.
You'll get a list; when you find the app you want, double tap it.  Somewhere
over on the right, near the top, you'll find Get, or the price, if it's not
free.  Double tap that, then double tap install, and there you are, a new
app on your device.
Tracy

-----Original Message-----
From: Njtechdiv [mailto:njtechdiv-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lester
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hello my name is lester
can you tell me how I can put this app on my I pad please email address
underdogmj at comcast .net

-----Original Message-----
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the correct youtube is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpAZHyZIzyg

-------- Original Message --------
From: Mario [mailto:mrb620 at hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, Nov 30, 2016 9:35 AM EST
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Subject: iDentifi app

  A Toronto teen is hoping to change the lives of visually impaired people
around the world with a new app that can identify virtually

any object with the quick tap of an iPhone or iPad.

  Anmol Tukrel, a 17-year-old grade 12 student at Holy Trinity School in
Richmond Hill, has always been fascinated with technology,

particularly artificial intelligence. By the time he was in grade 7, he was
already teaching  himself how to code.

  Growing up, Tukrel often travelled to Pune, India to visit his aunt who
worked at the K. K. Eye Institute, a hospital dedicated to

providing eye care for people who can't afford it. That experience, combined
with an internship at a startup that uses computer

vision to make products for advertising firms, led him to the perfect idea
for a Canada-Wide Science Fair project.

  "I thought I could use computer vision for a more humanitarian use, and
help visually impaired people," he said.

  Tukrel's iPhone app, iDentifi, allows users to take a photo of virtually
any object, and then describes that item in great detail back

to the user.

People can also take photos of text and have it read back to them, in one of
27 languages. Tukrel hopes it makes every day tasks 

like picking out the can of pop you want  easier for people who are
visually impaired.

  Jason Fayre, the head of accessibility and assistive technology at the
Canadian National Institute for the Blind, tested out the app

and, although there are similar apps on the market, gave it a rave review.

  "I'm extremely impressed, especially that it was written by a grade 12
person," he said. As a blind person himself, Fayre said

iDentifi would make his life in easier when trying to identify things in the
kitchen.

  "If I don't know what a particular can of something is, being able to take
a picture and have that information read back to me in

great detail is very useful," he said.

  It took Tukrel more than a year to develop the app, a process that
involved months of painstaking research and enough code to fill

a two-inch binder.  He had initially planned on making his own convolutional
neural network computer speak for the data structure

used to make the program that recognizes objects. Eventually, he opted to
integrate existing programs.

  Tukrel casually speaks about computer vision, convolutional neural
networks, and application program interfaces as though he

were a university graduate of computer science - not an about-to-graduate
high schooler.

  "I've always liked technology, but as much as I like playing video games
and using different apps, I wanted to be able to make

them myself," Tukrel  said.

  For Tukrel, the work doesn't stop now that the science fair is over.

  He has already met with various organizations to get feedback on the app,
and plans on making tweaks to improve the user

experience. So far, the app has been downloaded by several thousand people
and is being used in 60
  countries. And, it's free, something Tukrel doesn't plan on changing.

  "I want people who are visually impaired to use it without thinking of the
financial consequences of doing so," he said. "We have

such great  technology and I think it's important that everyone has access
to it."

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/11/28/toronto-teen-uses-app-to-give-vi
sually-impaired-a-new-look-at-the-world.html

and here's a short youtube on how it works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpAZHyZIzyg

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