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Show Notes
GIPHY’s head of R&D, Nick Hasty, joins us to discuss their recently released celebrity detector project. He gives us all of the details about that project, but he also tells us about GIPHY’s origins, AI in general at GIPHY, and more!
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Featuring:
- Nick Hasty – Website, LinkedIn, X
- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Blog post about the celeb detector project
- GIPHY Enters the Open Source Community with Celebrity Detector (readwrite article)
- MTCNN method used in the celebrity detector project
- GitHub repo
- Demo page
- 3D projection of celeb face embeddings
- Complete list of all celebs in the model
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Topics
changelogaimachine learningdeep learningartificial intelligenceneural networkscomputer vision