Automated whiteboard cleaning system
AssigneeKing Faisal University
InventorsNoor E. Hafsa, M M A Sayeed Rushd
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Abstract
A whiteboard cleaning system includes a user movement sensor that determines when a user is inactive; a whiteboard capture camera that makes an image of the whiteboard when the user movement sensor detects that the user is inactive; a classification module that classifies the image with a pre-trained image data set using an augmentation technique to enhance the size of the image data set and determines whether the whiteboard needs to be cleaned based on the classification, through transfer learning, using the image data set; and a wiper that cleans the whiteboard when the classification module determines that the whiteboard needs to be cleaned.
Claims11
A method for cleaning a whiteboard, comprising:
- determining whether a user is inactive through a user movement sensor;
- capturing an image of the whiteboard to establish an image data set if the user is determined to be inactive through a whiteboard capture camera;
- determining whether the whiteboard needs to be cleaned based on a classification of the image using a classification module, and applying the detection of when the user is inactive, through transfer learning, using the image data set, using an augmentation technique to enhance the size of the image data set;
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- receiving, the determination from the classification module whether the whiteboard needs to be cleaned, and cleaning the whiteboard if the classification module determines that cleaning is required,
- wherein determining whether the whiteboard needs to be cleaned comprises pre-training the classification module with the image data set using an augmentation technique to enhance the size of the image database.
A whiteboard cleaning system, comprising:
- a user movement sensor that determines when a user is inactive;
- a whiteboard capture camera that makes an image of the whiteboard to establish an image data set when the user movement sensor detects that the user is inactive;
- a classification module that classifies the image using the pre-trained image data set using an augmentation technique to enhance the size of the image data set and determines whether the whiteboard needs to be cleaned based on the classification and applying the detection of when the user is inactive, through transfer learning, using the image data set;
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- a wiper that receives the determination from the classification module whether the whiteboard needs to be cleaned, and cleans the whiteboard when the classification module determines that the whiteboard needs to be cleaned and the user is inactive,
- wherein determining whether the whiteboard needs to be cleaned comprises said pre-training the classification module with the image data set using an augmentation technique to enhance the size of the image database.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.