Author: Fritz

According to Snapchat’s founders, the smartphone camera has always been at the heart of their app. Over the years, Snapchat has evolved to do much more to your photos than simple image and video messaging.

This giant social media platform is most popular among young people, and the main reason for this is its amazing photo/video editing tools and a wide variety of available camera filters.

Continue reading Creating Snapchat Augmented Reality Lenses in Lens Studio—A Beginner’s Guide

I was inspired by this example of Core ML + ARKit. But I found one significant disadvantage — it doesn’t place annotations on objects automatically. Instead, you need to center the object in your camera view and use your finger to place an annotation.

In my opinion, this destroys user expectations, so I decided to fix that and build a more immersive user experience using object detection in augmented reality.

Continue reading Core ML + ARKit: Annotating Objects in Augmented Reality

One of the most popular languages in the data science and machine learning world is Python, and most Python tasks usually involve at least 5 packages that need to be installed. However, these packages typically have their own dependency packages for them to function well. And some of these dependency packages must be in a specific version. This is where a Python virtual environment comes into play.

Continue reading Creating Python Virtual Environments with Conda: Why and How

It doesn’t matter whether you’re a student, a researcher, a data scientist, a machine learning engineer, or just a machine learning enthusiast, you’re surely going to find PyTorch very useful.

As you might be aware, PyTorch is an open source machine learning library used primarily for applications such as computer vision and natural language processing.

Continue reading 10 reasons why PyTorch is the deep learning framework of the future

Hello seekers! In this post (part 2 of our short series — you can find part 1 here), I’ll explain how to implement an image segmentation model with code. This model will allow us to change the background of any image, just by using the API that we’ll build.

Continue reading Changing Backgrounds with Image Segmentation & Deep Learning: Code Implementation

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are frequently preferred in computer vision applications because of their successful results on object recognition and classification tasks. CNNs are composed of many neurons stacked together. Computing convolutions across neurons require a lot of computation, so pooling processes are often used to reduce the size of network layers.

Continue reading Capsule Networks: A new and attractive AI architecture

Lately, machines have been proving themselves as good as or even superior to people with certain tasks: they are already better in Go, Chess, and even Dota 2. Algorithms compose music and write poetry. Scientists and entrepreneurs estimate that artificial intelligence will greatly surpass human beings in the future.

Continue reading Can artificial intelligence be taught how to joke?

In our last tutorial, we used Firebase to store and keep track of the tasks we needed to complete. But that approach wasn’t customized to a specific user, i.e. they all got the same list of tasks. One way of personalizing these tasks for different users is to include user authentication. And that’s exactly what we’ll be doing in this post.

Continue reading Firebase User Authentication in Flutter