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Kittydar – Face detection for cats

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Re: Kittydar – Face detection for cats

#21

Drag and drop in the demo doesn't seem to work for me (Win 7/Chrome 19). Otherwise, awesome.

For me the demo-images don't work, too: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'type' of undefined on line 64 of demo.js:

    if (!file.type.match(imageType)) {
And please don't offer only a drag&drop-uploader. For people like me who are not using a file manager it is impossible to use that site with local images.

Re: Kittydar – Face detection for cats

#22

I love how simple the photo uploader is. I'm currently working on a new upload system for my site, does anyone know how compatible a drag and drop system that automatically shows the image like that would be? Does it work in all browsers? IE? It seems to work in all of my browsers but my target users are not very computer savy and usually have IE7, 8 or old computers.

Not very. I believe drag/drop file upload doesn't work in IE at all. See here for the browser support for a very nice file upload component: https://github.com/blueimp/jQuery-File-Upload/wiki/Browser-s....

Re: Kittydar – Face detection for cats

#23
post #16

Also check out this project, it is going to be presented at ICML2012 in a couple of weeks: http://research.google.com/archive/unsupervised_icml2012.htm... they trained a huge neural network with millions of unlabeled frames from Youtube, and derived high-level features. The authors showed that the network learned without supervision the concepts of human face, human body... and cat .

That work was impressive -- but kind of over the top. From what I can tell, their dataset could at most have been like 2.5TB uncompressed. Their model took 3 days to train on 1000 16 core machines. They called this "inexpensive way to develop features from unlabeled data". Later they point out that their model was "more than an order of magnitude larger than other large networks reported in literature".
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