Font Finder gets featured on Intel DevMesh Site
‘The future belongs to those who learn more skills, and combine them in creative ways’ — Robert Green, Mastery
Intel DevMesh is a site that developers can showcase all the groundbreaking and interesting projects they are working in the AI and IoT space. It aims at connecting the world’s brightest minds, by showcasing world class development projects and enabling developers to collaborate.
It is in my belief that technology and its advancements are meant to empower us to combine it with our current skills, art and sciences to stir up a magnificent amalgamation. As a developer, it is essential to combine the technical and the creative, and learn how to package our skills in a way that can serve cross-sector by coming up with creative solutions to problems.
FONT FINDER
On August 2017, my project called Font-Finder got featured on the Intel DevMesh homepage, among two other projects selected for featuring within the month. It is currently among the top 15 projects on DevMesh, with over 180 followers.
Font-Finder aims to assist designers and developers alike in typefont identification by using image recognition (OCR) to intelligently recognize and identify fonts used on physical print material or natural scene images, all with the use of a smartphone camera.
Doubling up as a designer, it has always been my wish to have a technology in place that can enable us to look to previous designs for inspiration. The whole goal of the project is to make typefonts on physical print material searchable. With the precedent of AI, developers have been provided a large array of tools and resources that they can leverage on to make machines smarter, and propel AI integration.
It is currently among the top 15 projects on DevMesh, with over 180 followers.
I have made immense progress in the project execution, and will be open-sourcing it soon. You can follow on Github for any updates 😊.
BREAKING BOUNDARIES
Africa is poised to be the greatest source of the next generation developer workforce, and as community, we are focused on getting the world to see the amount of technical talent Africa possesses. Among the greatest DevMesh AI projects of 2017 is Ngesa Marvine’s research project on addressing climate change issues in Kenya. It has made its way into famous articles, and gained immense recognition. Find out more about the Hyacinth Monitor, and on how he plans to to predict the exact location of water hyacinth in Lake Victoria.
