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DAVID - Smart Toys

A child seated in a green chair looking at a teddy bear also seated in a separate green chair

3D Scanner Data Collection for Smart Toys

This data acquisition is part of the DTIF-DAVID project. The DTIF-DAVID project is a collaboration between XPERI, SoapBox Labs and NUIG funded by Enterprise Ireland (EI). Its main objective is the development of a multimodal (sound and vision) AI  platform (AIP) with low cost and low power consumption to be used for the creation of voice-enabled toys. The AIP does not send any personal data to a cloud service, thus ensuring that any speech or image data captured by the smart-toy remains secure.

In order to train algorithms for the smart-toy's AIP, training data of children is required. The acquisition involves capturing multiple pictures of research participants using a 3D Scanner, to render 3D model versions of them. These 3D models will then be used to prepare large training datasets for training  the AIP for the DAVID Smart Toy. In addition to the image data, speech data will be recorded to aid in the training of a speeh understaing AI technology for the smart toy. 

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