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Why does nobody talk about using image overlays to train AI on rare bird species?
I spent a wet afternoon in Oklahoma layering edited photos of a scissor-tailed flycatcher onto different backgrounds and it improved my model's accuracy by 12% in one round, has anyone else hacked their training data like this?
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lunaf6712d ago
Has anyone else had to get creative with their setup just to get decent training data for a specific species? I feel like most people don't realize how much work goes into getting good samples for rarer birds. Your overlay trick sounds really smart, actually. I've been doing something similar with changing the lighting and angles on my own photos of a local warbler species, and it helped a ton too. It's nice to see someone else who gets the struggle of making a dataset work when you just don't have enough source material.
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the_anthony12d ago
Yeah, isn't it wild how much elbow grease goes into something that looks so simple from the outside? Totally feel you on the lighting and angles grind, that's half the battle right there.
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the_elizabeth12d ago
Wait, warbler? You got a warbler dataset from scratch? That's bonkers dedication.
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