Semantic and Instance Segmentation on iOS Using a Flask API — DeepLabV3+ and Mask R-CNN

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Computer Vision — iOS Introduction

Let say you have an image, and you want to distinguish objects of interest— or in other words, find suitable local characteristics to distinguish them from other objects or from the background. This is called image segmentation or semantic segmentation.

When we segment a target object, we know which pixel belongs to which object. The image is divided into regions and the discontinuities serve as borders between the regions. One can also analyze the shape of objects using various morphological operators.

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Running Create ML Style Transfer Models in an iOS Camera Application

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Style transfer is a very popular deep learning task that lets you change an image’s composition by applying the visual style of another image.

From building artistic photo editors to giving a new look to your game designs through state-of-the-art themes, there are plenty of amazing things you can build with neural style transfer models. It’s also can be handy or data augmentation.

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Fritz AI Models Included in Lens Studio 3.4 Asset Library

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When Snapchat’s Lens Studio released SnapML as a core part of their 3rd major platform update (3.0) back in June of 2020, our antennae immediately raised at the introduction of a new mobile platform for machine learning models.

We seized the opportunity, got to work, and less than a year later, a collection of our machine learning models have been baked into Lens Studio 3.4, the latest release of Snapchat’s flagship design tool. That’s right—Lens Creators can now directly access ML models designed and built specifically for Lens Studio by our team of experts!

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New to data science? Here are a few places to start

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Someone once told me than any time you answer a question more than once, you should just blog about it. To anyone just starting out in data science, here’s how I began my journey: like everyone else, I Googled it.

If you do, you’ll be presented with millions of resources, and I guarantee you won’t know where to start. The amount of available information is overwhelming.

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Profiling TensorFlow Lite models for Android

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If you’ve tried deploying your trained deep learning models on Android, you must have heard about TensorFlow Lite, the lite version of TensorFlow built for mobile deployment.

As a quick overview, it supports most of the basic operators; in simple terms, you can use it to do classification, object detection, semantic segmentation, and most of the text synthesis operations.

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TensorFlow Lite Text Classification Models with Model Maker

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In this article, let’s look at how you can use TensorFlow Model Maker to create a custom text classification model. Currently, the TF Lite model maker supports image classification, question answering, and text classification models. It uses transfer learning for shortening the amount of time required to build TF Lite models.

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How to Make a Space Wormhole in Lens Studio Using the Material Editor

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Materials can seem intimidating to get the hang of — so many interconnected nodes, math operations, and procedural textures. I know it seemed like magic to me when I first started, but beneath this complexity are some very simple principles, and understanding these will enable you to create your own relatively complex materials in a short space of time.

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