How to invent the nXet great thing when you meet something, X, great?
創意如何延伸發想？
當看到某樣令人讚嘆的成果，那下一個創意在那裡？
我們的工作受惠於近年來形形色色攝影裝置的快速增長、大
幾年前聽過MIT教授Ramesh Raskar的 “Idea Hexagon” （創意六角型）。發現跟自己在系統性創意發想的步驟十分
摘要如下，希望對大家有幫助，如果有更好的想法，也希望
The “Idea Hexagon” by Prof. Ramesh Raskar, MIT Media Lab, did help me a lot in the past years. I believe it will be a big help for many friends who strive for innovation both in products or researches.
X = Idea you just heard
What’s the neXt?
- X^d: Extend it to next (or some other) dimension
- X + Y: Fusion of the dissimilar
- Do exactly the opposite
- Given a cool solution/technique/opportunity, then find other problems
- Given a problem, find other solutions
- adjective + X: Pick your adjective; making it faster, better, cheaper, etc.
For examples, my first representative work is “image reranking“, which yields more than 500 citations in Google scholar. It’s actually the “X^d” case as the ranking concept is originally from the text domain and I am the first to extend it (but solving certain constraints) in imager ranking.
For (4), we observed the utilities of facial attribute detection, so we enable them for a brand new solution in consume photo search.