Automatically Detecting and Coordinating Restaurant Servers

Idea:

• Use computer vision to detect people looking around for waiter.
• Try and weed out false positives and negatives.
• Use computer vision to detect gestures such as arm raises to flag down waiter, writing checks in air to indicate readying the check.
• Use either augmented reality or Glass or something to indicate hot spots of urgency that dynamically detect urgency of service.
• Help above using emotion detection but also measure using moral calculus for fairness.
• Service them using planning and queueing theory.
• Have acknowledgements for customers when not possible to immediately service to show that their efforts have been seen and are being taken care of at the earliest.
• Automatically flag tables for cleaning to staff after customers are done.
• Automatically detect spills using CV.
• Enable voice commands from users at table.