Open Tech Calendar

Welcome to the May PyData Edinburgh event!

We will be at Lloyds this time, so remember to bring an ID.

TALK DETAILS
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Object Detection using TensorFlow
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Presenter: Martina Pugliese
Martina works as Data Science Lead at Mallzee. Both in her work and outside she loves to investigate phenomena from data, producing results in terms of models and visualisations. She studied Physics and has done some research in Evolutionary Linguistics so if you start chatting about language to her you'll find she'll never stop.

Description:
Object detection is the area of Machine Learning that deals with teaching a machine to recognise both what is in an image and where in the image a given object is. It is a fascinating task that can be tackled via Deep Learning and is getting more and more ubiquitous in our everyday life due to several major developments in research and applications.
This talk will go through a brief chronology of the field and will walk you through the milestones that made this task very popular these days. There will be a few tools shown that tackle the problem, from Haar Cascades with OpenCV, the YOLO network, and eventually various neural network models you can implement with TensorFlow. Specifically, the latter will be given a bit of depth to demonstrate how an object detection job can be configured and launched using its API. Along the way, there'll be brief overviews of deep learning and some of its main concepts as well as an introduction to TensorFlow as a general Machine Learning framework.

LIGHTNING TALKS
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Share your stories! Share your successes & failures! Share your hints & tips! Whether you are a beginner or an expert, we want to hear from you.

If you want to give a lightning talk at this event, send us a message either here on Meetup, through Twitter @PyDataEdinburgh or any other way you know how to find us!

Just 5 minutes, still informal, no need for slides unless you want them — go on, give it a go!

LOGISTICS
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Please note all attendees MUST sign up to the Meetup to be admitted.

1815: Doors open, drinks & networking
1845: Talks start - welcome & community announcements followed by our main speaker, then lightning talks.
We'll end the evening with pizza and more refreshments, wrapping up by 2100.

SPONSORS & REFRESHMENTS
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As always, we couldn't do this without our sponsors help to provide a venue and drink & pizzas — Cathcart Associates (www.cathcartassociates.com), Solarwinds (www.solarwinds.com), Wood Mackenzie (www.woodmac.com), Lloyds Banking (www.lloydsbank.com) and Canon Medical (research.eu.medical.canon)

CODE OF CONDUCT
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