The artificial intelligence it has many applications. AI Aquarium is a Aquarium with AI that recognize the fish we are looking at, and displays information on the screen. It also works with gestures.
In recent months, AIs like ChatGPT or Stable Diffusion have been in fashion, which allow you to create things like the perfect waifu, or time travel. But the artificial intelligence it has endless applications.
AI Aquarium is a project of ITRIwhich has won an innovation award at the recent CES 2023 show. A Aquarium with artificial intelligence that is already working at the National Museum of Marine Science and Technology in Taiwan. You can see it in the video of the opening of the news.
An aquarium with AI that knows what you’re looking at
AI Aquarium is able to determine the fish you are looking at, and displays information about that fish on the screen. It also recognizes 10 different gestures with the hands, to perform different actions.
For them he uses cameras with image recognition. Gesture sensing and eye tracking technology isn’t new. The Kinect device of the Xbox 360 console could already do it more than a decade ago.
The interesting thing here is the layer of artificial intelligencewhich is capable of locating the fish you are looking at, and guess what species it isas well as other data such as size, or what it is doing: if it eats, swims, is still, etc.
With this information, it shows tabs on the screen about the species, what the fish does, and other curiosities.
AI Aquarium it also works with gestures. As can be seen in the video, there is a menu with the fish that move around in the aquarium, and the visitor indicates, with the number of fingers you put on your handwhich fish you want to see: the first, second, third, etc.
Depending on the gesture, a tab of the chosen fish appears on the screen. Apart from being quite practical, this system has the advantage that it no need to touch screens or buttonsso it’s very hygienicideal for museums and exhibitions.
ITRI technology has many applications, beyond this interactive aquarium, which is just an example. It is already developing ways to include it in informative screens, artistic projects, advertisingand other environments.
AI Aquariumthe Aquarium with artificial intelligenceis a good example of the variety of fields where the AI can add value. And this is just the beginning…
