Flickr Park or Bird
AI
image recognition
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
1 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 11 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score -0.45.
Performance: 0 for, 6 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Impressive results on close-up photos of single birds
From 2 comments
Looks like it does quite well (on good images with closeup of a single bird). Some fails:…
hemangshah on HNNice. They use deep convolutional neural nets, which is the key algorithm that dominated the ILSVRC 2014. This computer vision contest included, among other challenges,…
r3m6 on HN
Objections
Fails on many bird photos, especially distant or non-close-up shapes
From 3 comments
Some pretty clear bird photos aren't working either; I guess it has to be a close up, which kind of ruins the usefulness for me.…
tlack on HNhttp://bioexpedition.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Peacock_With_Fanned_Tail_600.jpg wrong…
cowpig on HNDoes not recognize Big Bird. I proclaim this to be a failure.
tolkienfanatic on HN
Misclassifies flowers, bees and non-birds as birds
From 2 comments
I'm seeing a lot of pictures of flowers and bees in the bird pictures. I'm guessing this is due to the way the training is done, anyone from Flickr who can comment on that?
verelo on HNhttp://bioexpedition.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Peacock_With_Fanned_Tail_600.jpg wrong…
cowpig on HN
Does not work on tablet
From 1 comment
Does not work on tablet :(
callesgg on HN
Requests
Trigger app that photographs birds passing by a phone left in a tree
From 1 comment
Totally not what I was expecting! What would be very cool would be some kind of trigger app where you leave your phone in a tree for an hour, and it takes pictures of all the…
bambax on HN
Open image2vec style feature extractor
From 1 comment
It's cool that a team of deep learning researchers can pull this off quickly. Anyone know of an "image2vec" (word2vec for images) that would empower others to try out similar…
kcarnold on HN
Questions
Did they build from scratch or use a library
From 1 comment
I put a picture of some chicken breasts and it didn't recognize it, is it a feature? Joke aside, incredible work here. Did you do everything from scratch or used some library to…
franciscop on HN
Which question the classifier answers: primary subject or any bird present
From 1 comment
Also, the exact question you're trying to answer makes a difference. If the question is, "Is this a picture of a bird?" where "of a bird" means that the primary focus of the…
JangoSteve on HN
Alternatives named
Clarifai image recognition
From 2 comments
http://i.imgur.com/Svn2bZ4.jpg Also, Matt Zeiler runs an image recognition startup which the image above was generated from. Check them out at http://clarifai.com/
vinayan3 on HNDo you just want the neural net, or the tags too? This might not be what you want, but it looks like it could be fun to play with: http://clarifai.com/
Nogwater on HN
Caffe
From 1 comment
Caffe (and other frameworks) provide exactly this. It's basically: 1) To setup, load a pre-trained AlexNet/Overfeat/other architecture model (e.g. trained on ILSVRC2012) 2) To…
ajtulloch on HN
CCV
From 1 comment
Is this something that could be accomplished with the help of CCV? https://github.com/liuliu/ccv
atburrow on HN