[8BitsAndAByte] found herself obsessively labeling items around her house, and, like the rest of the world, wanted to see what simple, routine tasks could be made unnecessarily complicated by using AI. Instead of manually identifying objects using human intelligence, she thought it would be fun to offload that task to our AI overlords and the results are pretty amusing.
She constructed a cardboard enclosure that housed a Raspberry Pi 3B+, a Pi Camera Module V2, and a small thermal printer for making the labels. The enclosure included a hole for the camera and a button for taking the picture. The image taken by the Pi is analyzed by the DeepAI DenseCap API which, in theory, should create a label for each object detected within the image. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to do that very well and [8BitsAndAByte] is left with labels that don’t match any of the objects she took pictures of. In some cases it didn’t even get close, for example, the model thought an apple was a person’s head and a rotary dial phone was a cup. Go figure. It didn’t really seem to bother her though, and she got a pretty good laugh from the whole thing.
It appears the model detects all objects in the image, but only prints the label for the object it was most certain about. So maybe part of her problem is there were just too many objects in the background? If that were the case, you could probably improve the accuracy of the model by placing the object against a neutral background. That may confuse the AI a lot less and possibly give you better results. Or maybe try a different classifier altogether? Or don’t. Then you could just use it as a fun, gag project at your next get-together. That works too.
Cool project [8BitsAndAByte]! Hey, maybe this is a sign the world will still need some human intelligence after all. Who knows?
The idea is preety interesting, but the AI recognition is hilariously bad.
Hilariuos! I love the incredible uselessness of this hack. Make it a kit and it would be a perfect present for your nerd friends.
Yes, I would love one of those :)
An present to make with the daughter that would really be for me…
But can it label itself?
It would probably label « mirror »
Should have watch the video, it actually names itself…
That’s literally the first thing they did with it.
That’s was not a mirror
Just a few days ago one of our cats was walking around with a label that said “cat” on her head.
And a friend got a label with her name stuck to her forehead.
I love playing with my labelmaker.
Put a mirror in front of it and let it try to label itself.
Maybe it will develop self-awareness:
Label: me
Or it will result in infinite recursion:
Label:
a label-maker creating a label for
a label-maker creating a label for
a label-maker creating a label for
…
“[8BitsAndAByte] found herself obsessively labeling items around her house”
directly reminds me of this 1990’s cartoon series episode:
https://youtu.be/JV9fsvYKpSs
+1
It would be interesting to see how it did without such a busy background.
Yeah I realize this was a bit of a gag, but it was frustrating to not see the results given a proper backdrop.
My first thought when seeing a label maker:
“Double-D Ed Boy, tell me why Rolf should not destroy your weird doohickey…”