Watson and Waffles

Videos: https://vimeo.com/180515627 https://vimeo.com/180517533

Ready made build for Windows: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwFn9oh3rXqKWjRWcTRzUFZnZ3M/view?usp=sharing

Inspiration

We want face/emotion detection and VR drawing to become gaming mechanics. IBM Watson can help us realize

What it does

Find the smiling or angry twerkers in the dungeon Draw in VR. If IBM Watson recognizes some outline shapes, the real items will be materialized in VR.

How I built it

With Unity3D and IBM Watson. A team effort with Frances Sierra, Ben Tovar, Michael Jones, Jonicoma, Bo Huang

Challenges I ran into

Differentiation between similarly shaped objects, such as between a heart and light bulb

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

We were exposed to the powers of deep learning

What I learned

Visual recognition is hard

What's next for Watson and Waffles

We'd like to see more generic detection of feature locations in image

Built With

• ibm-watson
• unity