Intro to Object Detection & Computer Vision Pipelines - AI Workshop

This workshop will equip you with the skills to effectively build your computer vision and ML pipelines using Python, PyTorch and Flyte/Union.

We'll cover data annotation for object detection, model fine-tuning, versioning, building an effcient AI pipeline, and running batch inference on the trained CV model.

Afterwards you'll be able to build your own computer vision object detetection models and custom datasets! What you'll learn can also be transferred to different types of AI and ML pipelines.

The workflow we'll build hands-on together

• Download Dataset
• Download pre-trained model weights
• Initialize object detection model
• Pre-process Data & Visualize Datasets
• Fine-tune model with PyTorch
• Evaluating Object Detection Models
• Save model to Hugging Face Hub
• Perform batch predictions in Cloud

This workshop will cover

• Data Annoatation for Object Detection
• Computer Vision Models & Use cases
• Reliable & Reproducible ML pipelines
• Hands-on Building an ML pipeline

What you'll need to follow along

• A free Union.ai account (union.ai)
• A GitHub account for authentication
• A Google account to run code in Colab
• A Hugging Face Account to save CV models (Optional)

Note: For ease of setup we'll be using Union's serverless AI orchestration platform for the workshop, but you can also implement computer vision pipelines in Flyte, the open-source platform on your own compute clusters. github.com/flyteorg/flyte

Who should attend

Anyone interested in building better computer vision pipelines, AI applications and MLOps best practices should attend. This workshop is designed to be approachable for most skill levels. Familiarity with machine learning and Python is strongly encouraged but not required.

By the end of this workshop, you'll be able to build a reliable computer vision pipeline with Python, PyTorch, and Union. What you'll learn can be transferred to more complex AI pipelines and libraries.

About the Speaker

Sage an AI engineer and developer advocate who loves educating people and making ML applications more reliable. He's taught thousands of people during live workshops how to get started with Python, machine learning, computer vision, and AI observability.

Connect with Sage: linkedin.com/in/sageelliott

About Union.ai

Union is an AI platform powered by Flyte that simplifies ML infrastructure so you can develop, deploy, and innovate faster.

Write your code in Python, collaborate across departments, and enjoy full reproducibility and auditability. Union lets you focus on what matters.

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