OCR and Face Recognition

Optical character recognition(OCR)
technology to convert scanned docs to text
if you have a scanner, it probably came with OCR
Handwritten Digit recognition

Face detection
-most digital cameras can detect faces

Object recognition(in supermarket)
– Evolution Robotics Retail developed LaneHawk, a retail loss-prevention solution that helps turn bottom-of-basket(BOB) losses and in-cart losses into profits in real time.
– The company was acquired by Datalogic 5 year later!

Special effects: motion capture
Earth viewers(3D modeling)

Smart Cars
Vision-based interaction (and games)
Nintendo Wii has camera-based IR tracking build in.

Game changer:KINECT – skeleton technique

Security and curveillance
Medical imaging: 3D imaging MRI.CT image guided surgery

Taking over

Scene Understanding
sky, mountain, water, ground

how to build system
what is computer vision
-> Goal of computer vision is to write computer programs that can interpret images.

Image (and movies) have become ubiquitous in both production and consumption.
Therefore applications to manipulate images(movies) are becoming core.
As are systems that extract information from imagery
-surveillance
-building 3d representations
-motion capture assisted

Post request

client -> data -> server

func performThisclosure(closure: (void) -> void){
	closure()
}

func justDoIt(it: (Void) -> Void){
	it()
}

justDo {
	print("print me now!")
}
var somethingToDo: (Void) -> Void = {}

func doItLater(it: @escaping (void) -> Void){
	somethingToDo = it
}

subdomain

an extension to a domain name used to organize resources together

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/authentication/token/new?api_key=ENTER_YOUR_API_KEY_HERE

extension AppDelegate {
	
	func tmdbURLFromParameters{_ paramters: [String:AnyObject], withPathExtension: String? = nil) -> URL {

		var components = URLComponents()
		components.scheme = Constants.TMDB.ApiScheme
		components.host = Constants.TMDB.ApiHost
		components.path = Constants.TMDB.ApiPath + (withPathExtension ?? "")
		components.queryItems = [URLQueryItem]()

		for (key, value) in parameters {
			let queryUtem = URLQueryItem(name: key, value: "\(value)")
			components.queryItems!.append(queryItem)
		}
		return components.url!
	}}
}

private func getRequestToken() {

    /* TASK: Get a request token, then store it (appDelegate.requestToken) and login with the token */

    /* 1. Set the parameters */
    let methodParameters = [
        Constants.TMDBParameterKeys.ApiKey: Constants.TMDBParameterValues.ApiKey
    ]

    /* 2/3. Build the URL, Configure the request */
    let request = URLRequest(url: appDelegate.tmdbURLFromParameters(methodParameters as [String:AnyObject], withPathExtension: "/authentication/token/new"))

    /* 4. Make the request */
    let task = appDelegate.sharedSession.dataTask(with: request) { (data, response, error) in

        // if an error occurs, print it and re-enable the UI
        func displayError(_ error: String) {
            print(error)
            performUIUpdatesOnMain {
                self.setUIEnabled(true)
                self.debugTextLabel.text = "Login Failed (Request Token)."
            }
        }

        /* GUARD: Was there an error? */
        guard (error == nil) else {
            displayError("There was an error with your request: \(error)")
            return
        }

        /* GUARD: Did we get a successful 2XX response? */
        guard let statusCode = (response as? HTTPURLResponse)?.statusCode, statusCode >= 200 && statusCode <= 299 else {
            displayError("Your request returned a status code other than 2xx!")
            return
        }

        /* GUARD: Was there any data returned? */
        guard let data = data else {
            displayError("No data was returned by the request!")
            return
        }

        /* 5. Parse the data */
        let parsedResult: [String:AnyObject]!
        do {
            parsedResult = try JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data, options: .allowFragments) as! [String:AnyObject]
        } catch {
            displayError("Could not parse the data as JSON: '\(data)'")
            return
        }

        /* GUARD: Did TheMovieDB return an error? */
        if let _ = parsedResult[Constants.TMDBResponseKeys.StatusCode] as? Int {
            displayError("TheMovieDB returned an error. See the '\(Constants.TMDBResponseKeys.StatusCode)' and '\(Constants.TMDBResponseKeys.StatusMessage)' in \(parsedResult)")
            return
        }

        /* GUARD: Is the "request_token" key in parsedResult? */
        guard let requestToken = parsedResult[Constants.TMDBResponseKeys.RequestToken] as? String else {
            displayError("Cannot find key '\(Constants.TMDBResponseKeys.RequestToken)' in \(parsedResult)")
            return
        }

        /* 6. Use the data! */
        self.appDelegate.requestToken = requestToken
        self.loginWithToken(self.appDelegate.requestToken!)
    }

    /* 7. Start the request */
    task.resume()
}

Accessing User

Personal and Private == “User” Data
sometimes all the data is ‘user’ data

Anyone can access == “Anonymous” Data
(call a method using API key and arguments)

Authentication — ensuring someone’s identity (i.e. “we’ve confirmed this user is indeed Jarrod Parkes”)
Authorization — providing someone access to something (i.e. “this user is allowed to post ratings for movies”)

Which methods to use?
get a list of movies by genre? /genre/{$id$}/moview
get a list of our favorite movies? /account/{$id$}/favorite/movies
add or remove a movie from our favorites list? /account/{id}/favorite

Movie DB API
https://developers.themoviedb.org/3/getting-started

Getting strated
1. Partially implemented so we can focus on networking
2. Uses the AppDelegate like singleton
3. Each HTTP request is broken into 7 steps

Pieces of a URL

http://api.geonames.org/citiesJSON?north=44.1&south=-9.9&east=-22.4&west=55.2&lang=de&username=demo

1.query, 2.hostname, 3.scheme, 4.path

https://api.flickr.com/service/rest?safe_search=1&extras=url_m&bbox=1.29,47.85,3.29,49.85&api_key=[YourApiKey]&method=flickr.photo.search&format=json&nojsoncallback=1

Swift equivalent for MIN and MAX macros
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24186648/swift-equivalent-for-min-and-max-macros

NSURLSession, NSURLRequest, NSURLSessionDataTask

Make request -> Parse the JSON returned -> Determine # of pages of results -> Generate random # in that range -> Make a second request -> Get the random photo from random page of results

private func displayImageFromFlickrBySearch(_ methodParameters: [String: AnyObject], withPageNumber: Int){
	
	var methodParametersWithPageNumber = methodParameters
	methodParametersWithPageNumber[Constants.FlickrParmeterKeys.Page] = withPageNumber as AnyObject?
}

Search Method

48.85N, 2.29E
LatLon.net
48.85

NSURLQueryItem(name: “name”,value:”value”)
public var queryItems:[NSURLQueryItem]?

import Foundation

var components = URLComponents()
components.scheme = "https"
components.host = "api.flickr.com"
components.path = "/services/rest"
components.queryItems = [URLQueryItem]()

let queryItem1 = URLQueryItem(name: "method", value: "flickr.photo.search")
let queryItem2 = URLQueryItem(name: "api_key", value: "1234")
let queryItem3 = URLQueryItem(name: "text", value: "purple")

components.queryItems!.append(queryItem1)
components.queryItems!.append(queryItem1)
components.queryItems!.append(queryItem1)

print(components.url!)