Mother's Day Countdown: An Emergency Guide to Choosing Gifts

Choosing a gift is one of the greatest problems throughout the ages. With Mother's Day approaching, with the help of AI technologies such as machine learning, big data analysis, and image enhancement, you can give your mother a thoughtful gift.

There are only two days left until Mother's Day. Have you chosen a gift for your mother? 

Making a gift that is beautiful, practical and pleasing to your mother is a really daunting problem, and it is even more of a headache for programmers who are usually surrounded by an ocean of code. 

According to unreliable intelligence, programmers behave differently on Mother's Day: 

The first one:What? Mother's Day is coming? 

Second type:Oh, Mother's Day is coming soon. I'll give my mother a call and ask her what gift she wants.

The third type:Open an e-commerce app, search for "Mother's Day gifts", and choose one from the first three recommended items (usually massage tools or the like). 

The fourth type:Open an e-commerce app, search for "cleaning tool set", then buy a set of brooms, mops, and feather dusters and send them to my mother... 

There are also programmers who don’t even have an e-commerce app, and they may simply choose the simplest and most direct method: sending red envelopes. 

So, how should we choose gifts?AI is better than you at choosing. 

Option 1: Use algorithms to recommend gifts 

There is a small program called "Li Ji" that usesBig Data and Machine Learning, by answering 5-6 questions about the gift recipient, a tailor-made gift list can be recommended.

After personal testing, I found that the recommendations match the recipient's preferences quite well. If there is nothing you like the most, you can also find inspiration through the recommendation list. 

In addition, L'Oréal has also made similar attempts and launched a chatbot Beauty Gifter in 2017, which recommends the most suitable cosmetic gifts based on questions and answers between the giver and the receiver.

This robot is a collaborative project between L'Oréal and Automat. Beauty Gifter selects gifts through a carefully designed questionnaire to find the most suitable gift.

The recipient will receive a card asking about their skin care, beauty preferences, etc. If you are worried about ruining the surprise, as long as the gift giver is familiar with this information, they can answer the card questionnaire themselves.
 

Option 2: Give Mom a Beautiful Outfit

On Mother's Day, you can also consider giving your mother oneDressing assistant.

At Facebook's annual developer conference F8 in 2017, the fashion and beauty service robots Epytom Stylist and Sephora appeared. Since then, Amazon has also launched Echo Look,This robotIntegrating pattern recognition with AlexaTogether, helping people choose clothes. 

Echo Look has a depth-sensing camera, LED lighting for flash, and computer vision and other technologies. Its working principle is that after putting on clothes, it takes full-length depth-of-field photos or short videos through voice control, and then builds a data set of the user's personal clothing style preferences.

Afterwards, it will useMachine learning algorithms,Combined with the advice of fashion experts, it evaluates whether the user's outfit is suitable, and even provides guidance and suggestions on the color, style and trend of the user's outfit. 

Option 3: Take Mom back to the good old days

There is another trick, use AI to make one yourselfTechnology and artgift. 

A small program called "You and Me in the Past" can use AI technology to restore old photos, converting low-definition versions into ultra-high-definition versions.

The topic of using it to repair the images of female stars such as Brigitte Lin and Joey Wong also became a hot topic on Weibo.

Imagine restoring a clear image of your mother's youth.Help mom regain her youthful appearance.This should be considered a very thoughtful gift.

The one used by "You and Me Back Then" isImage enhancement technology.AI is used to improve image resolution and optimize mainly for human faces.

The specific principle is to provide the algorithm with a large number of low-resolution images, and then input the high-resolution original images of these images, let the algorithm compare the differences between the two, and learn the skills of increasing resolution. Finally, the blurred image can be restored.

In terms of image enhancement, NVIDIA proposed in 2018Photo noise removal based on deep learningThe neural network they trained can make blurry images clear in seconds. The advantage of this new model, called noise2noise, is that it does not need to look at a large number of high-resolution sample examples. 

The research team extracted 50,000 images from the ImageNet dataset, trained the noise2noise model, and added a random noise distribution to each image. The system must estimate the size of the noise in the image and remove it, ultimately restoring the image with high quality.

Option 4: Spend more time with your mother

With the help of AI, maybe we can quickly pick out gifts that satisfy mothers, or maybe not, because every mother is unique.

By using big data analysis and machine learning, personalized suggestions can be given, and this technological approach can bring a novel experience.

But, in fact, the irrefutable truth is very simple.The best gift isYes, moreTake time out to spend more time with your parents.

After all, going home is the best gift.