An over-engineered bot using computer vision and deep learning for automatic fishing in Minecraft — Minecraft Steve has now retired from an adventurous lifestyle and now enjoys fishing on peaceful river banks and coasts! How does the bot work? Capture screenshot and then crop it to the region of interest Pass the cropped screenshot to a Convolutional Neural Network to obtain a prediction Use the prediction and a timing constraint…

Playing rock 👊 paper ✋ scissors ✌ with a computer In this blog, we’ll have a look at how we can play Rock Paper Scissors with a computer using Hand Pose Estimation and Random Forest Classifier Rock, Paper, Scissors is a classic hand game that many of us remember playing…

Playing Tic-Tac-Toe with a computer We all know the game Tic-Tac-Toe where two players place tokens, called cross and nut, to get three tokens in a row, column, or diagonal in order to win the game. Thanks to computational algorithms, today we can play this game against a computer. Minimax algorithm Most…

Harnessing the power of computer vision to generate ASCII art In this blog, we are going to see how we can use computer vision to convert cartoon images to ASCII art. If you carefully observe the image shown below you will quickly deduce that this is fundamentally a problem of…

We have come a long way in the field of information technology and have reached the milestone of machine learning in artificial intelligence. This article discusses what machine learning is, why it’s important, and how it operates. Introduction to Machine Learning Machine learning (ML) refers to a set of algorithms/processes that have an inherent…

Scrape images from the web — The best source of images is the internet but downloading them individually is a herculean task and hence must be automated using a program. Image-Scraper is a python program that can be used to download images from the web for training deep learning models. Salient features of the program Images are searched on the web…

How do computers outperform humans in the game of chess? Chess Chess is a strategy board game for two players that is played on a checkered board with 64 squares organised in an 8x8 grid. There is no hidden data in the game. One king, one queen, two rooks, two knights…

How do you hide a secret message in plain sight inside an image? In this blog, we are going to go through how we can hide text inside an image using digital image steganography. The following image of a place near Area 51 can hold on to a lot of…