So help arrived from the Teaching, Engineering and Research faculty of Waikato University. Nick Pickering and his senior and most able team Pollin8 team member Thomas Carnahan. We are using Roboflow which makes annotating images so much quicker. This is good if you’re doing hundreds of images! Now my models’ precision is up to 91% […]
facial eczema
Persistence and Problem Solving
I’ve given up being efficient. “Do it right the first time or not at all!” No, that’s not how I or other people with my modus operandi do things and succeed! Processing my data has been problematic for sure. Each image must have a corresponding label. My lists weren’t of the same length. I had […]
Obstacles or Learnings?
So here I am in October 2023 still running up against obstacles and frustrations. I now have a new bigger database of images to work with after the 2022 – 2023 facial eczema season here in N.Z. It was a wet summer and autumn which tested our dairy farmers. Resiliency is a word that politicians […]
Momentum
When you’ve gone as far as you can. With the data you’ve got. What’s next? How do you use the momentum you’ve built to keep going? I’ve shipped what I’ve made so far. A copy of my project notebook in Google Colab complete with code is now available in my GitHub ‘account’. Now for the […]
Let’s get Visual, Visual, I Wanna Get Visual!
Olivia Newton John sang “Let’s get physical, physical I wanna get physicaa…aaal. Let’s get into physical. Let me hear your body talk, your body talk”. Well our version of the lyrics at this stage of our Deep Learning Classification project is all about the VISUAL. We want to SEE the results our model has produced […]
Start Right Where You Are
Such good advice from my creative mentor Samantha Bennett of therealsambennett.com . Start with who you know. Start with something you’re passionate about and good at doing. Start with something that gives value or solves a problem for the people you want to help the most. Make something no matter if it’s a “B”, then […]