Ask HN: Computer Vision and AR project ideas

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I need to choose a summer project in Computer Vision or Augmented Reality. We will be given project suggestions in the coming week, but are not limited to these.

I would like to create something packaged and fun but technically interesting (that's the dream at least) that I can show people, rather than say, coming up with a slightly improved camera stabilisation method.

Any ideas would be very much appreciated.

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Can you make something that looks at what someone is wearing, and then alters colors, patterns, etc? So I try on a certain shirt type, and then it'll show what I would look like with other shirts of the same cut?

I would also enjoy a gesture controlled UI for a simple computer. Maybe something that can turn sign language into typed English?

I've got no idea how difficult these systems would be to build -- absolutely no experience in the field.

Changing shirt colours would be a fairly straightforward segmentation problem. Applying patterns accurately would require some kind of 3d reconstruction, which is obviously harder.

I like the gesture controlled UI idea. Understanding sign language is probably several steps too far - I think it relies heavily on facial expressions to give the gestures context, and it almost certainly isn't a straight mapping from gestures to words.. Will hunt around for literature though, as even understanding a small subset would be fascinating and I'd love to learn to sign.

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