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Don’t Ride This Bike! Generative AI’s persistent trouble with compositionality and parts

Marcus on AI • 3952 implied HN points • 08 Dec 24
🕹 Technology AI Machine Learning Image Processing Natural Language Generative models
  1. Generative AI struggles with understanding complex relationships between objects in images. It sometimes produces physically impossible results or gets details wrong when asked to create images from text.
  2. Recent improvements in AI models, like DALL-E3, show only slight progress in handling specifications related to parts of objects. It can still mislabel parts or fail to follow more complex requests.
  3. AI systems need to improve their ability to check and confirm that generated images match the prompts given by users. This may require new technologies for better understanding between language and visuals.

OpenAI Vision

Tribal Knowledge • 19 implied HN points • 20 Jun 24
🕹 Technology AI Image Processing OpenAI Programming
  1. Working with image processing technology can involve complex math but can also lead to practical and interesting projects like a Magic: The Gathering card detector.
  2. Reflecting on past coding projects can show growth in understanding software systems and the evolution of one's skills over time.
  3. Advancements in AI, like OpenAI's Vision API, have made tasks like image processing more accessible to engineers without the need for in-depth domain knowledge, offering a quicker way to experiment and validate ideas.

AprilTags: Why Robotics Invented Its Own QR Code

Luminotes • 7 implied HN points • 09 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Robotics Computer Vision Algorithms Open Source Image Processing
  1. AprilTags are similar to QR codes but are used as fiducial markers in robotics for localization purposes.
  2. AprilTags, created by the reputable robotics lab April, enable systems to localize features in 6 degrees of freedom using a single image.
  3. AprilTags differ from QR codes as they are designed for easy detection in low resolution, unevenly lit, or cluttered images and can detect multiple tags.

A Nibble of Quadtrees in Rust

Get Code • 7 implied HN points • 22 Feb 23
🕹 Technology Data Structures WebAssembly Image Processing
  1. Quadtrees are data structures where each non-leaf node has exactly four children and are used to represent properties of two-dimensional space.
  2. Quadtrees are used for performance reasons, like optimizing collision detection in simulations with many moving objects.
  3. Implementing region quadtrees in Rust involves subdividing the tree based on error thresholds and region lengths to efficiently represent images.

Episode 2: Image Text Extraction for Eligibility Checks

Healthtech Hacks • 1 HN point • 17 May 23
🕹 Technology Automation NLP Image Processing Healthcare
  1. One field where computers are advancing significantly is Optical Character Recognition (OCR), especially in healthcare.
  2. Automating eligibility checks saves time and reduces errors for both patients and healthcare providers.
  3. Implementing OCR for image text extraction can streamline processes in healthcare, but human review is still essential for accuracy.
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So you want to code a convolution in Python - a bite-sized image processing with kernel

Curiosity-driven AI/ML Research Engineering • 0 implied HN points • 16 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Programming Image Processing Machine Learning Python AI
  1. Images are represented as pixels, each containing information about red, green, and blue colors (RGB) within the range of 0 to 255.
  2. Implementing a convolution in Python involves using NumPy arrays and Pillow to manipulate images effectively.
  3. Convolution implementation requires traversing the image pixel by pixel, extracting image slices, computing new pixel values using kernels, and ensuring to handle all three color channels in the output.

How to Design Software — Image Uploaders

Joseph Gefroh • 0 implied HN points • 19 Oct 19
🕹 Technology Software Design Image Processing Scalability Security System Architecture
  1. When designing a system for image uploading, it's important to consider technical concerns such as displaying, authorizing, validating, processing, storing, and associating the images.
  2. Tradeoffs to think about include scaling to handle large uploads efficiently, ensuring security to prevent vulnerabilities, managing authorization based on business logic, and maintaining consistency in the image uploading workflow.
  3. A well-designed image uploading system should support creating and using various image variants, offloading processing to separate services, ensuring consistent growth across subsystems, and establishing clear architectural boundaries for scalability.

The Path To Undestand Image Generation and Stable Diffusion

The Beep • 0 implied HN points • 07 Apr 24
🕹 Technology AI Models Machine Learning Image Processing Deep Learning Data science
  1. Stable diffusion has made a big splash in image generation, allowing users to create impressive images using text prompts.
  2. Generative models like Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) help in building these image generation systems by learning from existing data.
  3. Understanding how stable diffusion combines text and image decoding can enhance the image creation process, making it more flexible for various tasks.

GraphicsMagick: The Perfect Tool for Seamless Image Processing

Curious Devs Corner • 0 implied HN points • 14 Jul 24
🕹 Technology Software Image Processing Automation Command-line Open Source
  1. GraphicsMagick is a powerful tool for editing images through the command line. It can handle tasks like resizing, adding watermarks, and simulating effects such as oil painting.
  2. You can create animations and enhance images by adjusting brightness and colors using simple commands. This makes it easy to customize your images quickly.
  3. GraphicsMagick allows for task automation with shell scripts, meaning you can process multiple images at once without doing each step manually. This saves a lot of time.

flyswot

machinelearninglibrarian • 0 implied HN points • 22 Dec 21
🕹 Technology Machine Learning Computer Vision Data Management Image Processing Software Development
  1. The project aims to use computer vision to find and correct mislabeled images in a library's digitized manuscript collection. This will help ensure that images are accurately categorized for future use.
  2. A command line tool called 'flyswot' has been developed to check images for fake labels based on specific filename patterns. This tool helps automate the identification process.
  3. Throughout the project, important lessons were learned about practical machine learning deployment, such as dealing with domain drift and using data version control effectively.

Generative A-Eye #11 - 2nd/3rd Oct,2024

Martin’s Newsletter • 0 implied HN points • 03 Oct 24
🕹 Technology AI Machine Learning Image Processing Research Papers
  1. New methods are emerging in AI image editing, like Gaussian Splatting, which allows users to manipulate image selections in 3D space. This makes it easier to edit images in more creative ways.
  2. Researchers are exploring how to improve text-to-image generation by enhancing data augmentation techniques and exploring token lengths in models. These advancements aim to make AI-generated images more realistic and of higher quality.
  3. There are important discussions around the robustness of AI-generated image detectors, as generative AI can be misused. It's key for these detectors to adapt and respond to new challenges from ever-evolving technologies.

DeOldify.NET

Barn Lab • 0 implied HN points • 07 Jun 23
🕹 Technology Neural Networks Image Processing
  1. Colorization of black-and-white images involves using color spaces like Lab to represent colors digitally
  2. Neural networks have been trained on colorized image datasets to aid in the colorization process
  3. DeOldify.NET offers a user-friendly way to colorize old images using AI without needing complex tools or specialized websites