Artificial Intelligence in Business | Neil Haboush
Take computer vision a branch of AI, which itself is a branch of computer science with cv. Neil Haboush can create a system that does a subset of things that the human visual system can do in CV. The system can analyze a picture taken by a camera to understand, what's in the picture.
For example it can recognize objects like cars, streetlights and people. While humans have no problems with these kinds of things. It's difficult for computers to do the same thing because all it sees is a rectangular array of pixels. Each with a certain intensity and color we need the computer to somehow take a step back and look at the pixels. Around the neighborhood of a point instead a popular way to do that is to slide a window across the image and at each point look for higher-level features.
If you can somehow summarize what's in each window, then you can run the same process. Through summaries and repeat the process to hope to recognize objects computers, do this through a network of nodes called neural networks. An image can be fed into the network and the concept of sliding one window or the image is called convolution. So the network itself is called a convolutional network or CNN. So that's AI Park now let's look at the business part.
Say you have a business that manages a parking lot in the city of Montreal. We have three types of customer’s members who pay a monthly fee and whose credit card information. We already have members who pay per use and whose credit card information. We already have non-members who just pay by usage and whose credit card information we do not have. We want to use a computer vision based license-plate recognition system to simplify operations. When cars come in or go out their plates are automatically red and the members are charged appropriately. Others are charged at exit but there is no concept of having to take a ticket as customers. Drive in a customer simply pulls up into the parking lot and parks on entry. The CD system registers her license plate and logs her check-in time when she leaves.
If she's a member, she simply drives out, if she's not then the gate does not open until she pays at the credit card machine. Here's what the process looks like a non-member may choose to become a member with a single acknowledgment. Since we already have all the required information for membership like the credit card license plates and car model to make this all happen. The license-plate recognition system the registration system and the billing system. All have to be integrated there are a few other processes and systems as well but as you can see the CV system is simply one part of the end-to-end process. Now let's look at some exception conditions, what happens if the car comes in with dirty license plates and the system is not able to read it.
