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nomad86

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    Comment #42826208

    Thx! Downloading all the photos took the most time. Object detection process took only several days. At TripOffice, we use simple and widely-used tools: Python, NextJS, and MySQL.

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    Comment #42826050

    Thx, see here: https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/example/cluster/ I use MapBox, but similar things can also be done on Google Maps.

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    Comment #42823515

    It reminded me of how, a long time ago, FPGAs were used in Bitcoin mining.

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    Comment #42821800

    I haven't checked it, but such data should be easy to get from our database.

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    Comment #42821102

    We manually labeled almost 1,000 chairs in various photos to train the model.

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    Comment #42821095

    At first I wanted to use Google's Vertex AI for this purpose, but the costs were too high. Besides, in this case, we would also have to upload 40 million photos to the cloud for Go…

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    Comment #42821049

    This is not scraping. Many hotel sites share photos with their partners, we work with Lexyl (HotelPlanner).

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    Comment #42821034

    All major booking sites share hotel photos with their partners. We are in several partner programs, but now we mainly work with HotelPlanner.

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    Comment #42820996

    I tried to detect models of specific chairs, but it's very difficult. To train the AI model, you need many photos of the same type of chair, and on the internet, you can usually fi…

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    Comment #42790159

    I created an app similar to Tinder that facilitates manual verification. Around 60 photos can be verified in one minute. The whole process took about a week and didn't cost much.

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    Comment #42785345

    I don't know, I assigned this task to trusted specialists from India.

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    Comment #42780685

    In our hotel photo database, we have everything: rooms, lobbies, bathrooms, pools, exterior shots of buildings, etc. I trained an AI to recognize ergonomic chairs, but sometimes th…

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    Show HN: Using YOLO to Detect Office Chairs in 40M Hotel Photos

    I used the YOLO object detection library from Ultralytics to scan over 40 million hotel photos and identify images with office chairs. This helped me create a map showing hotels su…

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    Comment #41690229

    I'm building a hotel reservation system on tripoffice.com

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    Demo is always better than the real product. We'll soon see how it works...

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    Comment #36121530

    Yes, Airbnb Killer is registered in Poland, EU

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    Comment #36101803

    We trained the AI model mainly on Herman Miller and Ergohuman chairs. Unfortunately for AI, a cheap chair on wheels is 95% ergonomic.