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DJ and Team,
Have you seen the TensorFlow / Darknet / YOLO Real-time Object Detection videos? A friend of mine has implemented it on his PC and OMG, it is the fastest and most accurate object identification software that I have ever seen. It is light years beyond Open CV. And the best part is that like Open CV, it is also open source. It is a neural network program which it runs on Windows (and Linux).
TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgxsv1riJhI
Have you ever thought of adding this to ARC?
Thomas Messerschmidt
Well thank you for that detailed explanation. It is certainly an interesting mix of software.
Someone should come up with a name for this. A simple, descriptive name would be a good thing. Tensorflow/Darknet/YOLO is a bit of a mouthful to say. Perhaps "TiDY" or "DitTY" 
--Thomas
SUCCESS!
I finally have DTY (Darknet/Tensorflow/YOLO2) working with ARC. DTY classifies/identifies an object. I added code to then output what it sees to a text file. Then I read the text into ARC, and finally parse it and assigns each atribute to a variable. The attributes are
@thomas! Great job! I look forward to details and videos !
Congratulations @thomasfromla ! That is no small feat to accomplish! It sounds like you did it a very efficient way as well (write text file/read in - I love that method).
I hope you'll get to share more on how your did it, I'd like to follow in your foot steps and experiment. With TensorFlow I assume you used the 'CPU' install instead of the GPU install?
I was pricing a multi unit GPU system the other day...PHEEWWW! I was not prepared for those prices!
@thomasfromla Man this is great...really looking forward to see how you accomplished!:D
@thomasfromla: Good job. Compiling Yolo is quick, regarding Tensorflow: How long it took to compile ? Did you enabled AVX2 extensions ?
(write text/read in) pointed by Justin follows the KISS principle !
I'm working on a different integration, not so simple .. so no results yet.
@ptp
Thanks.
I'm running it from Atom/Python with a few changes.
Best of luck on your implementation!
PS. I've gotten my robot to physically point at requested objects.
Me: do you see a dog? Robot: yes. It's on my left. (Points to the dog.)