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As an aside: owls being wise is a cultural belief. In India, owls are considered unintelligent, and calling someone an owl is akin to calling them a fool. Interesting how these per…

Thanks. Alas I don’t have bandwidth to take it on, but encourage you to do so wholeheartedly. Bonne chance!

Love that! I too was inspired to use this dataset in some way, and made this toy program where you point your camera at your face, and it renders your eyes and nose as doodles (and…

Monkey Island and its sequel are some of the defining games of my childhood. My brother and I played all the Sierra Games, and Lucas Arts games, and while we have many loves (Heroe…

For those interested in how EXIF is treated in other apps, a dated but informative article from 2012: https://www.daveperrett.com/articles/2012/07/28/exif-orienta...

Totally random question: how did you pick the name?

Yes, this sort of tech is likely to make its way into CGI. Some relevant resources if you're interested: 1. This post shows how GANs were used to replicate the Princess Leia scene …

tl;dr: Instagram is significantly tightening up access to their platform. The existing API is being deprecated in favor of a heavier permissions based system, and functionality ava…

Why is this interesting? In short: a great new activation function that may challenge the dominance of ReLU. Longer story: Today, ReLU is the most popular activation function for d…

They are going to expose some of this functionality as part of their AR libraries. We know this from their Snapchat demo, as well as the gaming demo (though that used the rear came…

Can the new camera technology be used to map spaces as big as rooms? If so, this could be game changing for allowing the creation of VR spaces quickly and inexpensively. E.g., play…

Did I miss it, or are there no virtual reality startups on this list? I'm a wee bit surprised: VR is nascent and there aren't enough devices out there to build sustainable business…

Yeah, Clarifai did well. I am keen to learn how well their custom model feature works. Per their FAQ[0], you only need supply 20-50 images per concept. That seems remarkable to me,…

These aren't really great for learning about computer vision or deep learning, but are great for building projects that require image classification. E.g., recall the awesome proje…

I tried out the top 5 computer vision API vendors last year. See my findings, along with examples of output from all of them here: https://goberoi.com/comparing-the-top-five-comput…

I haven't built a production app, but did compare the computer vision offering in Microsoft's Cognitive Services with those offered by Google, IBM, Clarifai, and a couple of others…