Author: Fritz

If you’re just getting started with machine learning in Lens Studio — and especially if you don’t have much in the way of previous ML experience — then working with SnapML can be quite intimidating.

In this post, I want to offer some basic tips to help you get up and running, or to troubleshoot if you’re having difficulties getting your ML Component (the Lens Studio Object that holds and and allows you to configure AI models) working.

Continue reading SnapML in Lens Studio: ML Component Breakdown

Drones are unmanned, aerial devices used for a variety of purposes. When first developed, these devices were manually, remotely controlled. Now, however, drones often incorporate artificial intelligence, automating some or all operations.

The incorporation of AI enables drone vendors to use data from sensors attached to the drone to collect and implement visual and environmental data. This data enables autonomous or assisted flight, making operation easier, and increasing accessibility. As a result, drones have become part of the smart mobility offerings that are now commercially available to businesses and consumers.

Continue reading How Do AI-Based Drones Work?

Navigation is an essential part of any mobile app that has multiple screens leading to a variety of interactions for the user. Building a working navigation system often requires us to create a structure that allows for different kinds of navigators working together.

Using react-navigation, you can definitely nest different types of navigators in a React Native app. The term nesting, when it comes to navigators, refers to rendering one navigator inside a screen of another navigator.

Continue reading Nesting Tab and Stack Navigators in React Native and Expo Apps

The introduction of iOS 13 brought a major upgrade to Apple’s augmented reality framework. ARKit 3 arrived with a lot of interesting new features — people occlusion, motion tracking, simultaneous front and back camera, and collaborative support. These enhancements to ARKit strongly indicate Apple’s ambition for pushing AR immersion even further.

Up until iOS 12, we had SceneKit, SpriteKit, and Metal as the primary rendering frameworks. Among these, SceneKit, the 3D graphics framework, had been the most logical choice for building ARKit apps.

Continue reading Introduction to RealityKit on iOS— Entities, Gestures, and Ray Casting

If you follow my writing (here or here), then you know I’ve been working on a new Android app called AfterShoot — it’s an AI-powered Android app that helps users take better pictures while also managing their digital waste.

Continue reading Implementing Scoped Storage in Android 10

OpenCV is a powerful tool for doing intensive computer vision operations in real-time, even on resource-limited mobile devices. Throughout a couple of tutorials, we’re going to create an Android app that applies various image effects. Some of these effects might use just 1 image, while others might use more than 1 image.

Continue reading Image Effects for Android Using OpenCV: Vertical and Horizontal Stitching

Tesla’s Autopilot is certainly the most advanced in the world. If Comma.ai is the Androïd, Tesla is definitely the Apple of self-driving cars. Recently, Tesla has released “Tesla Vision”, their new system equipped only with cameras… making it one of the only companies in the world not to use RADARs!

This is not the only place where Tesla is going against the crowd, their entire strategy is based on fleet and selling products, while most of its competitors sell autonomous delivery and transportation services. You can learn more about it on my article on Tesla vs Waymo here.

Continue reading Computer Vision at Tesla

In this blog post, you’ll be learning about how to implement and leverage location data in Android.

Leveraging location data from user devices, you can find nearby shops, cafes, cinemas, hospitals, your time zone, provide location-based suggestions to users, share locations with other users or 3rd parties, reach your destination, and more!

Today, most major applications like Google Maps, Facebook, Uber, Swiggy, etc. are using this feature to provide some of the best services to the users as well.

Continue reading Handling Location Data in Android

To help sift through some of the incredible projects, research, demos, and more in 2019, here’s a look at 17 of the most popular and talked-about projects in machine learning, curated from the r/MachineLearning subreddit. I hope you find something inspiring, educational, or both in this list.

Continue reading Best of Machine Learning in 2019: Reddit Edition