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、大量的影音視訊資料，所以各種偵測、分析、搜尋、探勘的機器智慧能力應運而生。但是創意在那裡？

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類似。

摘要如下，希望對大家有幫助，如果有更好的想法，也希望不吝分享。

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?

1. X^d: Extend it to next (or some other) dimension
2. X + Y: Fusion of the dissimilar
3. Do exactly the opposite
4. Given a cool solution/technique/opportunity, then find other problems
5. Given a problem, find other solutions
6. 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.