Hong Kong Code Conference

Taylor and I gave a talk about how we used a Machine Learning approach to solve our problem of finding runners in race photos.

Watch the video on (youtube)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMDoHw4U53M]

We discuss how we tried to solve the problem using a traditional CV approach - HAAR classifiers with OpenCV, and after several months of pain built up good data to start training our own SSD CNN.

Check out the video to hear about how we got on, what was easy, what was hard, and why you can stuff a SSD512 model in a single lambda execution unit; but probably you shouldn’t.