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

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Post by pinoy420 »

nomad86 wrote: post #68
MaheshNat wrote: post #32

Why stop at just office chairs? Why not detect all categorizable objects in every photo and rank based on that? Could also crop just the object detection regions of each image, run those cropped images through CLIP/SigLIP, then UMAP and HDBSCAN to view a 2 or 3 dimensional latent space clustering of office chair types.. might reveal some info as to what kinds of chairs exist in what geographical regions. Could use a…

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 find only one stock photo of each chair.

Make synthetic dataset with reposing

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

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Post by ghaff »

notahacker wrote: post #60
CobrastanJorji wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the answer is the first word in your sentence. How many times have you stayed at a hotel? Now how many times have you stayed at a hotel because they promoted a good work space? Both cost about the same to run, and one has a much greater need.

Plus people that do like to spend much of the year travelling around doing deep work are (i) relatively likely to book short stay apartments instead of hotels and (ii) relatively unlikely to be particularly fussy about working environments since they're actively choosing travel over convenience and optimal working environments

If I think I just can't work without multiple monitors and a high-end office chair (and maybe printer), I probably won't travel or I'll get a co-working space of some sort. When I traveled a lot for work, it was some combination of the event/trip was my working and/or I just worked on my laptop wherever.

I'm semi-retired now but I'm temporarily staying in a Marriott property (Springhill Suites) that does have a usable desk and office chair which is just fine for writing at for me--though people with very specific requirements probably wouldn't like it.

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

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Post by ghaff »

jll29 wrote: post #10

IMHO There is a huge gap for affordable hotels for normadic workers and business people. Hotel rooms suck when you need to use them for work. Typically there are massive beds and I travel alone if for work. There is no proper chair, no writing table at all or one too small, and the sockets tend to be in the wrong corner of the room. If I was an entrepreneur outside of software looking for a gap, I might have invented…

I used to travel a lot for work. Hit about 180 days one year. (OK, about a month of that was vacation.) I'm not primarily a developer but I do a lot of writing. Honestly, I've never felt particularly constrained from doing that on the road but, then, although I have a nice home setup, I don't need that nice setup to work.

And I like having a king bed even if it's just me. (I do like having a desk and some sort of office chair though even that isn't really critical most of the time.)

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

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Post by bemmu »

bambax wrote: post #61

This is pretty cool; however this account has been repeatedly posting this same story since 2023 and never anything else... weird https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=nomad86

Well, it's been a while since it was last posted, so seems fine. Interesting how it only caught on once it triggered some techy interest.

I can understand why. My thought pattern was also like "oh YOLO, I know that, interesting to see some application for it, oh cool idea, upvote".

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Post by throwaway173738 »

echoangle wrote: post #59
KolmogorovComp wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really, businessmen/women usually need their stuff ironed.

And they are ironing their stuff on their own in their hotel room? Isn’t there a service for that?

Yeah if the hotel is nice enough then usually you can have suits and shirts pressed for a fee. If they don’t have on-site “wash-and-fold” then they probably won’t press clothes either.

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Post by chefandy »

matt-p wrote: post #76
chefandy wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m not sure how what I said could be interpreted as suggesting they are hostile to remote workers. And I think there’s a very good chance hotels would not benefit from this. Maybe in a tech center, but that’s a tiny fraction of hotels. Good office chairs are designed to be very adjustable, but they do tend to break when people twist one thing too far the wrong way because they don’t know how it works, and it would p…

The best solution to all these problems is to have a extra 'co working' room that any guest, or for a fee anyone, can use and just bill an extra $15/day to use it (or whatever) including the coffee machine. Working and sleeping in the same room is actually not that great for you most the time.

Most hotels that I’ve stayed in recently have one that they call a “business center” or similar. They’re the new hotel gym.

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

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Post by throwaway173738 »

ekianjo wrote: post #26
jll29 wrote: post #10

IMHO There is a huge gap for affordable hotels for normadic workers and business people. Hotel rooms suck when you need to use them for work. Typically there are massive beds and I travel alone if for work. There is no proper chair, no writing table at all or one too small, and the sockets tend to be in the wrong corner of the room. If I was an entrepreneur outside of software looking for a gap, I might have invented…

I travel a lot and I agree that most hotels suck for work. But the primary function of a hotel is to provide a safe place to sleep. If I want to do work, my best bet is to stay late in the office where I spent the day, since most people will leave at some point. I get good chairs there, large rooms and monitors if I need. It's much better than trying to retrofit a small hotel room into something else.

Yeah and even if you’re a guest of the office I can’t imagine most places would shoo you out after your business with them is concluded.

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Post by stevesearer »

a2800276 wrote: post #40
stevesearer wrote: post #14

This is really interesting. I’ve been looking for a way to automate the next step in this process after you know which photos have chairs: knowing the model and manufacturer of each chair. Unfortunately training a model suitable for the long tail of possibilities is beyond me.

Ok, I'll bite: why have you been looking for ways to identify the make and model of hotel chairs?

I run officesnapshots.com and we currently identify visible products manually (not just office chairs).

This allows us to show our readers which specific products are in the photo they are looking at which is a service we offer to the manufacturers.

It is advertising, but like hyper-specific and relevant to the photo you’re looking at.

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