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Just last month (June 2020) Snapchat released a major update for its Lens creation software — Lens Studio 3.0. Out of all the new things that came along with the release, one feature that stood apart was SnapML.

SnapML allows lens creators to use their own custom machine learning models inside filters. Snapchat filters already use ML for a variety of things like face tracking, surface tracking, segmentation, facial gestures, and more.

Continue reading “Working with SnapML Templates in Lens Studio: An Overview”

In a previous tutorial, the Levenshtein distance is implemented to measure the distance between 2 words based on a vector.

This tutorial builds on that implementation to create an Android app that automatically gives suggestions to the user as he/she is typing. The distances between the input text and an English dictionary of 20,000 words are calculated. The words with the lowest distances are suggested to the user to automatically complete the text.

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Machine learning and deep learning are enabling amazing applications all around us. However, traditional models of deep neural networks are designed to take advantage of the vast memory and raw computing power of centralized servers.

In this article, we examine how the concept of ‘transfer learning’ may usher in deep learning efficiently on the edge, and more specifically, inside your smartphone.

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Hello readers! In this article I’ll be discussing another cool trick we can do with deep learning. Specifically, we’ll see how to change the background in an image or in a video, just like they do in news rooms and in movies.

Continue reading “Changing Image Backgrounds Using Image Segmentation & Deep Learning”

Machine learning has changed the way users interact with mobile applications. It offers brand new experience to users, making apps capable of leveraging various features such as providing accurate, location-based recommendations; detecting and manipulating text from images; instantaneously detecting micro diseases, and much more!

Continue reading “Card Scanner on Android Using Firebase’s ML Kit and CameraX”

Let say, for some reason, you process a huge load of images that contain some sort of logo (or even products). And you want to know which images are related to a specific companies. This is very common problem in AdTech and/or Data Mining companies.

Let’s imagine you have a user generated content in your application, so you want to know what’s inside the images, and if you have ads running (Bingo!), you can target a user based on the images they liked, commented on, published etc.

Continue reading “Logo Recognition iOS Application Using Machine Learning and Flask API”

Lobe, owned by Microsoft, is a free, no-code tool to train machine learning models without technical skills. Only image classification is supported as of this writing, and an object detection model training is coming soon according to Lobe’s homepage. You can download it here by entering your basic info. It’s 608 mb.

Continue reading “Train a Face-Mask Detection Model in Under 5 Minutes using Lobe.ai”

Innovation starts with solving personal problems. Every chess player writes down their moves on a chess scoresheet during a tournament game to analyze soon after. The annoying part is you have to record your moves once during the game, and then again into a computer to analyze the moves you played.

On top of this, it’s super easy to keep highly disorganized computer files (keeping track of moves in our minds, unfortunately, doesn’t translate well to keeping track of papers in real life). Instead, we store loose scoresheets in the musty depths of a backpack — crumpled up to oblivion.

Continue reading “Scannable Chess Scoresheets with a Convolutional Neural Network and OpenCV”