Tips and Tricks to Keep your Lens Within Lens Studio’s 4mb Limit

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Lens Studio can gives one the ability to create some truly amazing augmented reality effects for Snapchat. I’ve found the performance and speed with which these lenses display to be very smooth, and this is due in part to the strict requirements that Snapchat has for the quality of submitted lenses.

However, this performance comes with a price. One of the most challenging things any lens creator faces is fitting everything into the 4mb of space that is allowed.

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Explainable, Responsible, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence

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About a year and a half ago, I wrote a blog post titled “What Is Explainable Artificial Intelligence and Is It Needed?” In the post, I discussed how transparent and explainable the decision-making process of humans is.

On the other hand, I gave examples of the balance between the performance of AI applications and the decrease in explainability.

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Machine Learning for Computer Vision: Foundations and Use Cases

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With advances in camera quality, image fidelity, and neural network research focused on solving image- and video-based challenges, computer vision continues to capture the attention and imaginations of machine learning researchers and practitioners.

But computer vision is an incredibly broad umbrella term that encompasses an array of specific tasks and challenges, and the field continues to expand.

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Entity Extraction with ML Kit

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Entity extraction can be useful when you want to add interactivity to your application based on the context of the text.

For example, if it’s a phone number you can prompt the user to make a call and if it’s an email address you can prompt the user to open the email app. This is achieved by first extracting various entities in the text. In this piece, let’s look at how that can be achieved using Google’s ML Kit.

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Digit Recognizer with Flutter and TensorFlow Lite

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Machine learning and AI are taking mobile application development to a new level. Apps that utilizing machine learning can recognize speech, images, and gestures.

This gives us new and compelling ways to engage and interact with people in the world around us. But how do we integrate machine learning into our mobile apps?

Developing mobile applications that incorporate machine learning has long been a difficult task. But with the help of platforms and dev tools such as Fritz AI, Firebase’s ML, and TensorFlow Lite, it’s getting easier to do so.

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