Conv nets

I knew that Convolutional neural networks has been succesfully applied in many comercial systems including ATM automatic check recognition. I also knew that Microsoft research guys works on it (prooflink) and seems to use it in MS Document Imaging OCR. But it was a very nice surprise for me that convnets are used by Google Street View to detect faces and license plates (prooflink).

And as a continue of this subject:

NEC has deployed ConvNet-based system in Japan for tracking customers in supermarket and recognizing their gender and age. Vidient Technologies has developed a ConvNet-based video surveillance system deployed in several airports in the US. France T´el´ecom has deployed ConvNetbased face detection systems for video-conference and other systems

(http://bit.ly/aYYesZ )

Here's another interesting application. Canon has developed VLSI chip for hardware implementation of Convnets.

P.S. If you have MS Office 2007 and want to try Document Imaging OCR for recognizing russian text you'll need to download CYRILLIC.SHP and copy it to Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\MODI\12.0.

File can be found here http://ifolder.ru/629971