Posts Tagged with: Computer Vision (13)
Africa Has the ML Talent But Missing the GPUs.
One challenge I have noticed throughout my academic journey and as a TA is that access to computing resources, especially GPUs, has become a major bottleneck for many students especially...
Give Me 8 Minutes To Show What You Can Actually Do With NVIDIA's Model Catalog- The AI Superstore:
If you visit the NVIDIA Build catalog today, you are greeted by a massive list of numbers, acronyms, and technical jargon. You will see names like "Nemotron," "Gemma," and "Mistral."...
SAMURAI: How a Motion Filter Makes SAM 2 Better at Tracking Objects in Video
In video object tracking, you draw a box around something in the first frame and the model follows it for the rest of the video. This becomes difficult when the...
Where to Find Data: A Curated List of Free Datasets and Repositories
In data science and machine learning, data is the new oil—it's the fuel that powers our models and insights. But finding the right data can be a challenge. Whether you're...
Zindi -Ghana Crop Disease Detection Challenge
Zindi, in partnership with GIZ, Digital Transformation Centre Ghana, Fairforward, and the Responsible AI Lab, has launched the Ghana Crop Disease Detection Challenge. This challenge focuses on building machine learning...
Why I Built a Free HD Background Remover (and What People Use It For)
Need to remove the background from a photo without losing HD quality? I built a free web app for that. Upload your image, adjust a few options, and download a...
Free Roboflow Notebooks for Training Your Own Computer Vision Models
Are you looking to learn how to build a computer vision model? High-quality computer vision tutorials can be found on GitHub, thanks to Piotr Skalski and the Roboflow team. Step-by-Step...
Trying NVIDIA's Difix on Blurry Phone Photos: What It Fixes and What It Distorts
Difix is an image model from NVIDIA that cleans up blurry or smeared images in a single pass. NVIDIA has a demo on Hugging Face, so I tried it on...
Agentic Object Detection and Document Extraction with Landing.ai
This week, I dive into agentic object detection and document extraction using tools from Landing.ai, one of Andrew Ng's innovative startups Inspired by Andrew Ng's recent post on X about...
Kolors Virtual Try-On: How to Try On Outfits with AI (Demo and Tips)
Let us examine the Kolors Virtual Try-On app a useful option for trying out different outfits virtually. By uploading an image, you can see how various clothing styles might look...
Why Machine Learning Models Can Be Confidently Wrong: A Charger Classified as a Phone
While machine learning is a powerful tool, it's important to remember that models are not infallible. In fact, they can sometimes be overconfident in their predictions, as shown in this...
ML5.js: Machine Learning for the Web
ML5.js is an open-source JavaScript library designed to make machine learning accessible to a broad audience, including artists, creative coders, and students. It leverages TensorFlow.js to bring machine learning models...
YOLO Object Detection Explained: Every Version From v1 to YOLO11, Licensing and Uses
Before YOLO, most object detectors worked in two stages. First they proposed a few thousand regions of the image that might contain something, then they ran a classifier on each...