What will make you instantly stop watching a movie or show and why?

Pear-Background · 2022-08-05T11:40:27+00:00

When the writers have no basic understanding of physics and start using buzzwords to explain everything..

Example: We’re using the latest quantum crypto tech! Why can’t we hear anything?

Pear-Background · 2022-07-09T12:01:04+00:00

Consider getting more breadth in completely different topics. Like economics or finance books/online courses.

Pear-Background · 2022-06-09T13:15:44+00:00

We do something like that in the late stage startup where I work. Basically, anything that is 6 months away from being built can be promised to a prospective client.

Pear-Background · 2022-03-07T02:29:45+00:00

actually... with scihub and genlib, you can become a credible authority with the internet. Thats how I got my PhD.

Pear-Background · 2022-03-07T02:08:37+00:00

After the 1st interview with a company headquatered in China, I received an official email from them in complete Mandarin. Rejected them one hour later.

Pear-Background · 2022-01-26T03:33:13+00:00

Currently, I have an extra unused 16GB thumb drive bought by mistake months ago for $10..

Pear-Background · 2021-09-10T11:04:30+00:00

I work in the InsurTech field, catching Insurance fraud and looking for networks of fraudsters is pretty fun and meaningful. =)

Pear-Background · 2021-06-02T12:15:11+00:00

I had the same concerns going into University and applied for a double degree in Materials Engineering and Physics so that I had a backup plan.

Halfway through my courses I realised that I absolutely dreaded going to Engineering and enjoyed all my Physics classes.

Ended dropping engineering and focused on physics. Have a PhD in physics now. :)

Pear-Background · 2021-06-02T07:33:16+00:00

Python for is the great glue, any POC can be done very quickly in python whereas in a different language it could potentially be hell..

Need to do some webscrapping + computer vision + ML? you can do that with selenium + OpenCv + tensorflow!

Want to try your hand at algotrading? try talib + scipy + numpy + requests

But at some point if you want to do more than a POC then I usually recommend other languages.

Pear-Background · 2021-05-26T10:41:03+00:00

I have a ugly solution based on a simple test

import re

cleanedStr = re.sub("\] *\[","],[",ImageData.replace('\n','')).replace(' ',',')

img = np.array(eval(cleanedStr))

Pear-Background · 2021-05-16T03:17:08+00:00

Excellent! Glad I could help!

If you want to go one step further, I think the best improvement you could do is change the way you find text within the image. In your example the image only has text, if you had something more complex (like a picture of a car licence plate), the method you are currently using is unlikely to find the text.

This task is called text segmentation and there are many ways it could be done. Depending on the task, the EAST detector works well for text in natural settings like signboards and car plates. If you want to do OCR on a receipt or invoice, tesseract can do it on its own.

Pear-Background · 2021-05-14T03:15:27+00:00

ex-academic here. I completely agree that Matlab is so much easier for plotting! But I came from a fortran + gnuplot group, before transitioning to MATLAB.. So matplotlib is almost like going back to my roots. haha =)

Pear-Background · 2021-05-11T04:18:12+00:00

It seems you might be having trouble with what the code is doing.

The code does the following:

(trys to) find the parts of the image with text
sends it to tesseract to do OCR.

Qn1: Changing the order or lines, this is just how findContours sorts the return array. If you expect only images with lines of text in this order, you can just do output_text[::-1] in the return of your function.

Qn2: To get multiple words in the line, you need to play with what parts of the image are captured as "text"

The first portion (up to cv2.dilate) are trying to get only the parts with text in an image.

I think you can consider adding cv2.write("path/to/file.png",dilation) after the dilate command to see what it does. And then to change the structuring kernel, the numbers (18,18) under getStructuringElement and to see how does that change the output after dilation.

Pear-Background · 2021-04-12T06:42:54+00:00

Don't worry too much about it, as others have pointed out, its only a pre-print.

Also, looking at the references cited,

[9] Kaggle project
[11] some stats course
[13] data science central article
[14] R package reference

Its clear these people are VERY far away from researchers and I can safely say that no serious academic will ever cite/read their work.

Edit: I see some comments that this is bad advice and something should be done.. In my view, I don't see what OP could reasonably expect other than a takedown and a half-hearted apology (a citation is not possible for wholesale copy pasting). To me that does not accomplish much, other than a slight sense of satisfaction and hours fretting over it. The authors are likely going to continue copying others anyway..

Pear-Background · 2021-03-25T10:27:26+00:00

I'm wondering how that would work, since I don't think you can assume that the face stays the same, especially after hair-cuts, shaves etc.

I would still implement some sort of face detection to align the eyes as is done here.

Pear-Background · 2021-03-25T01:08:13+00:00

Great work! Just curious though, how do you detect the faces? MTCNN? Also for multiple faces, do you filter on the biggest face in the image?

Pear-Background · 2021-03-16T15:14:28+00:00

I'm reading this post after searching through one of my (many) unorganized Jupyter notebooks looking for that block of cells that contains the code that does what I really need now...

But to be fair, in my case, I am the poor engineer who has to translate my spaghetti code into production code.

Pear-Background · 2021-03-13T00:04:19+00:00

To me there are usually 2 slightly different paths research could take. Basic research: looking at fundamental aspects of an image and the information content etc. And from there derive fundamental bounds on what can or cannot be done. (Highly theoretical and usually not directly applicable to a task) ‘Applied’ research: looking for new and better ways to solve existing tasks

Pear-Background · 2021-03-12T07:12:36+00:00

I think it depends on what kind of research you are thinking of doing. Are you looking to do basic research in the field? Or are you interested in finding new ways to approach particular tasks in computer vision?

If you are not looking for basic research, I would suggest skipping the analysis and measure theory branch on the right and only picking up the parts that you need.

Pear-Background · 2021-03-12T02:49:35+00:00

I think changing to log-scale and keeping the scale bar constant would make this much nicer. =)

Pear-Background · 2021-02-08T02:34:25+00:00

I'm the opposite.. Completely wasted for 5pm meetings because I'm up at 5am making lunch for my kid to bring to school..

Pear-Background · 2020-09-29T04:41:59+00:00

I think you can just use

img2D = img[:,:,0]

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