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During one of my projects, I came across Microsoft's face recognition API (Azure Face API) and it looked good enough to recognize people's faces and detect if a person is a newcomer or a repeating customer to our store. As our installations mainly use the game engine Unity, I wanted to be able to use the Face API from Unity. Face API does not have an SDK for Unity but their requests are just HTTP requests so the Networking classes in Unity can be wrapped into methods to make it easy to call these APIs. First of all, to those who just want to see the code, here it is . My tests focus on the identification of a face in an input image. The full tutorial I followed can be found here . The Main scene goes through the steps in the tutorial such as creating a PersonGroup and adding Persons to the group if it is not created yet. Just make sure you: Change the API key. I used a free trial key which is no longer valid. Use whatever images you want. I don't mind you us...

This article is based on the great tutorial here on how to train and detect custom objects with Tensorflow. I also referred to the official documentations here and  here  for running Tensorflow model building locally. It was my first custom detection project and I faced some hiccups along the way and this article is to log and share my finding so it can help other beginners like me. In the end, I managed to train a tensorflow model to detect Batsumaru , a character from Sanrio. This is how the detection will look like. The tools Windows 10 Pro 64 Tensorflow originally 1.7.1 and upgraded to 1.12.0. I will share the reason later. Python 3.5.4 LabelImg for image labeling PyCharm IDE Steps and Pitfalls Some of the mistakes I made and other discoveries when following the guide. I will not repeat the steps mentioned in the original guide, but only the parts where I had to deviate from the walkthrough and found out things by myself. The training and...

It's been a while since my last entry and since it is a new start in 2019, I thought I'd write something about "gone with the old and in with the new". I've had my Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (pnotewifi) since 2014, and it's one of the early Galaxy Note tablet series. It has served me well all this years but now it just sits there collecting dust. My old Samsung GT-N8013 I've known a long time about custom Android ROMs like CyanogenMod but has never had the motivation to try them out, until now ! Overview of the process For beginners like me, I didn't have an understanding of the installation process and so it looked complicated and it was one of the reasons I was put off in trying the custom ROM. I just want to say, it's not complicated at all!   Basically you will need to Prepare an SD card and install Android SDK (you need adb ). Install a custom boot loader ( TWRP is the de facto tool at the moment). Use adb to copy custom...