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Using Tensorflow to Recognize Saimaa Ringed Seals from Webcam

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Re: Using Tensorflow to Recognize Saimaa Ringed Seals from Webcam

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In case anyone is watching, the live stream is over :( [0]. Twitter account is located here [1]. [0] https://wwf.fi/en/norppalive/ [1] https://twitter.com/NorppaVahti

It was a good run while it lasted!

In case you guys have ideas for other similar ML/AI projects - we could take a look!

(shameless plug, I'm a partner at Emblica.fi)

Re: Using Tensorflow to Recognize Saimaa Ringed Seals from Webcam

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post #3

In case anyone is watching, the live stream is over :( [0]. Twitter account is located here [1]. [0] https://wwf.fi/en/norppalive/ [1] https://twitter.com/NorppaVahti

It was a good run while it lasted! In case you guys have ideas for other similar ML/AI projects - we could take a look! (shameless plug, I'm a partner at Emblica.fi)

Any idea where to find a database of birds? I've been kicking around with the idea of using transfer learning and then a database of bird images to fine tune a classifier to tell people what a bird they take a picture of is (EDIT, similar approach: [0]).

Would help with research. I know some people in finland that had participated in a crowdsourced census of birdlife in their area and thought it could be easier with an app that captures bird images and automatically classifies them (tells the user, I've often wondered what kind of bird something I've seen is) and provides the data to researchers.

I asked a friend of mine who works at a bird life charity if he knew of any data sets, but he didn't.

[0] https://jeffxtang.github.io/deep/learning,/tensorflow,/mobil...

Re: Using Tensorflow to Recognize Saimaa Ringed Seals from Webcam

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I'd love to see some sample code. I've tried something similar to detect the postman in my security camera stream, but failed over lots of small technical details.

Does anyone know a good tutorial on reinforcement learning that describes a practical application like this?

Re: Using Tensorflow to Recognize Saimaa Ringed Seals from Webcam

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was a good run while it lasted! In case you guys have ideas for other similar ML/AI projects - we could take a look! (shameless plug, I'm a partner at Emblica.fi)

Any idea where to find a database of birds? I've been kicking around with the idea of using transfer learning and then a database of bird images to fine tune a classifier to tell people what a bird they take a picture of is (EDIT, similar approach: [0]). Would help with research. I know some people in finland that had participated in a crowdsourced census of birdlife in their area and thought it could be easier with…

Is this related to that xkcd where he calls that task virtually impossible?

Re: Using Tensorflow to Recognize Saimaa Ringed Seals from Webcam

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any idea where to find a database of birds? I've been kicking around with the idea of using transfer learning and then a database of bird images to fine tune a classifier to tell people what a bird they take a picture of is (EDIT, similar approach: [0]). Would help with research. I know some people in finland that had participated in a crowdsourced census of birdlife in their area and thought it could be easier with…

Is this related to that xkcd where he calls that task virtually impossible?

https://xkcd.com/1425/

Re: Using Tensorflow to Recognize Saimaa Ringed Seals from Webcam

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I'd love to see some sample code. I've tried something similar to detect the postman in my security camera stream, but failed over lots of small technical details. Does anyone know a good tutorial on reinforcement learning that describes a practical application like this?

Yeah, the author of this article likely just followed these TensorFlow tutorials. You don't even have to touch code.

Follow this to retrain the Inception network: https://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials/image_retraining

Follow this to run an image through your model for classification: https://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials/image_recognition

Re: Using Tensorflow to Recognize Saimaa Ringed Seals from Webcam

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I'd love to see some sample code. I've tried something similar to detect the postman in my security camera stream, but failed over lots of small technical details. Does anyone know a good tutorial on reinforcement learning that describes a practical application like this?

Hello author of the article here!

I will probably publish in some time (when I'm not so busy doing other projects) some code samples too but until that I can give you tips.

You should start inspecting how the pre trained models (Inception v3/v4) works, what kind of layers they have and then decide what layers you want to use and what not. In case of Tensorflow, the tensorboard is very good tool for inspecting the model inner layers.

If you want to get started even more easier you should probably take a look into Tensorflow Slim models (https://github.com/tensorflow/models/tree/master/slim)

There is quite beginner friendly instructions for simple fine tuning of the models and it should take you pretty far.

Re: Using Tensorflow to Recognize Saimaa Ringed Seals from Webcam

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post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was a good run while it lasted! In case you guys have ideas for other similar ML/AI projects - we could take a look! (shameless plug, I'm a partner at Emblica.fi)

Any idea where to find a database of birds? I've been kicking around with the idea of using transfer learning and then a database of bird images to fine tune a classifier to tell people what a bird they take a picture of is (EDIT, similar approach: [0]). Would help with research. I know some people in finland that had participated in a crowdsourced census of birdlife in their area and thought it could be easier with…

You could scrape something like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthisbird/
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