Author: Fritz

If you’re even remotely plugged into the tech world, you’d have been hard-pressed to miss a couple viral summer trends, both involving AI-powered photo transformations.

Here’s the gist. Snapchat caught fire and soared past all Q2 estimates, in large part because of their rollout out of popular gender-swap and baby-face Lenses. And soon after, FaceApp took the internet by storm when its old-age filter went viral. This has led to millions of users, including prominent celebrities, showing off what they’d look like in 40 years or as members of a different gender.

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TensorFlow Lite is the lightweight version of TensorFlow Mobile. It’s here to unleash the machine learning power on your smartphones while ensuring that the model binary size isn’t too big and there’s low latency. Additionally, it also supports hardware acceleration using the Neural Networks API and is destined to run 4X faster with GPU support.

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Convolutional neural networks are a class of deep neural networks that are commonly used for visual imagery analysis. One of their main applications is in image classification.

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Learning and implementing different AI-powered apps using the TensorFlow.js library empowers you to do so many amazing things with ML in the browser.

This tutorial is the latest in my series using TensorFlow.js for machine learning and implementing those models in React apps. Here, we’ll learn about another TensorFlow library that helps with body segmentation.

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Visual scripting is one of the ways that you can add interactivity to your lenses. It is node-based, enabling you to see the logic as you are creating. You also don’t need to write code.

In this article, you will see how responses can be executed when certain events are enabled using node-based visual scripting.

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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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When he first conceived of Momento, founder Genday Okrain set out to build an experience that would allow users to look back on memories since-passed. The result was a mobile app that could transform photos, live photos, and videos into shareable GIFs.

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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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What a year for natural language processing! We’ve seen great improvement in terms of accuracy and learning speed, and more importantly, large networks are now more accessible thanks to Hugging Face and their wonderful Transformers library, which provides a high-level API to work with BERT, GPT, and many more language model variants.

Continue reading “Hands-on with Hugging Face’s new tokenizers library”