Pictures Demonstration Program

This demonstration software, called Pictures, will give a sense of what Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) can do. Both engineers and non-engineers are encouraged to explore HTM with it. It is easy to set up and doesn't require the Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing (NuPIC) to be downloaded.

The demo has a Windows® front end which accesses the Numenta cluster in California to actually do inference, so you must be connected live to the internet in order to use the demo. Note that the demo is not a complete development environment - you need to download NuPIC itself to do development (NuPIC is available today on Windows, MacOS and Linux).

Please read the installation instructions below before downloading the demo. In addition, we recommend that you also read the file below that describes a series of suggested experiments with Pictures.


Pictures Demonstration Program
The Pictures Demo requires Windows XP or Windows VistaTM. It can be run by following these steps:

  1. Click the button below to download to your computer's hard drive a compressed WinZip file, PicDemoWin-1.0.zip.
  2. Double-click on this WinZip file to extract the files into a new folder on your hard drive.
  3. Within this folder you will find an executable program called RunPictures; double-click on this program to launch the Pictures Demo.

After agreeing to a simple license and reviewing a short introduction to the demo, you can begin drawing your own sketches and presenting them to a Pictures HTM in order to get a better sense of how the technology works.

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Download PDF Introduction to the Pictures Demonstration Program
This document explains some details about the demo, including information about how the HTM network was trained. In addition, the document offers suggestions as to how to experiment with the demo to get a feel for the capabilities of the system.



 





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Frequently Asked Questions


Q:

I am connected to the Internet but the Pictures Demonstration Application is saying it can't connect. What can I do?

A:

It is possible that anti-virus and/or firewall software installed on your Windows machine is blocking the attempted connections from Pictures Demo to the Numenta HTM cluster. Some security software forbids programs other than browsers (such as Internet Explorer) from initiating outbound web connections. You may be able to resolve the issue by modifying your security settings to allow the program 'RunPictures.exe' to make outbound HTTP requests.

Q:

The Pictures Demonstration Application is not responding when I click 'Recognize Picture'. What can I do?

A:

The Windows version of the Pictures Demo uses a cluster of HTM servers maintained by Numenta in California. This cluster can support only a finite number of simultaneous picture recognition requests. If your Pictures Demo program is timing out, not responding, or failing to connect to the servers, then it is likely that the Numenta HTM servers are too busy responding to other users. You might consider running the Pictures Demo again at a later time.

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