I’m taking the year off #frocktober, but I’m still supporting! Please consider donating to @ocrfaustralia through my friend @Amys_Kapers 👗 https://t.co/piCc7UBz48
RT @Amys_Kapers: Well it’s that time of year again, it’s #Frocktober day 1
For those just tuning in, for the next month I’ll be wearing on…
@truckerfling @johnallsopp I ran it for Sydney in 2018, and @IngaPflaumer ran it in 2019. There were organisers in several other AU cities as well.
@mootpointer If you don’t make mistakes, you never learn how to fix them! Bring your knitting to the next STL and I’ll show you how to pick them up. 🙂
@Amys_Kapers @mootpointer Just zoom in on a bit that doesn’t show them!
RT @womensart1: Orly Genger, contemporary US, NY based sculptor known for her large scale crocheted and knitted outdoor installations #wome…
@jamescmcpherson @SoniaCuff Brilliant – thank you!
Wondering if I can get a signal boost from @JanelleCShane? 😉 I’m gonna need a lot more images! https://t.co/uW5ZY9u9Vu
I’m only 70 images, so really hoping that some of these folks retweeting will actually contribute!
@mikeforbes @ravelry Yep. Already posted in both Loose Ends (on the Big Six) and Australian Knitters. 🙂
@DuchessFounder @JanelleCShane Yep. Already posted in both Loose Ends (on the Big Six) and Australian Knitters. 🙂
@sauramaia …I don’t get it? Goal is to train a neural network to reverse engineer knitting patterns from a photo of finished work.
@minxdragon Thank you!
@minxdragon @sauramaia Yeah… most photos are going to be whole garment, so I don’t think resolution will be high enough. And I was hoping that by enlisting knitters I could get images that would require less cleanup after. (I’m still going to need help from folks to label.)
@minxdragon @sauramaia You’re way more experienced with this than me! I’m trying to make this MVP as simple and likely to succeed as possible. 🙂
@sauramaia @minxdragon First two are good, I think. The one where shawl is rumpled… not sure. I’ll say no on the wristwarmer – having it on the body makes it difficult and it looks ribbed?
@KrysaliaH I am a very long time Rav member and already shared there about 8 hours ago. Not seeing a lot of response yet.
@randomknits Garter/stockinette/moss/seed for now please!
Since a few folks have asked – yes, it’s already been posted on @ravelry. 😉 https://t.co/bccyZNsgYG
@minxdragon I actually hooked the email address up to a lambda that saves the image straight into S3, so I was hoping that people emailing me images would also save me the trouble having to save them and reupload myself!
@KrysaliaH No crochet right now, thanks. The blog post (https://t.co/f7hWHINBf2) has exactly what I’m after.
Yep, also exploring scanning/scraping from stitch guides too. Email processing pipeline was just the first approach!
@sauramaia @minxdragon Would you be able to email them? I spent all Sunday setting up pipeline from email straight through to S3 so I don’t have to download/reupload hundreds of photos!
@yoyohanna No lace!! If you click the link in the tweet, it goes to blog post with what I”m after. Literally just starting with stocking stitch, garter, seed, and moss.
@sauramaia @minxdragon Phew, thank you. My greatest fear is a viral thread of people sending me photos and I have to scrape them all. 😂 (PS one of those looks ribbed. I’m skipping ribbing for now. Just garter, stocking, moss, and seed)
@minxdragon Only if it’s included in the filename. I’m planning to set up Amazon Ground Truth and recruiting some volunteers to help me label.
@minxdragon Sagemaker Ground Truth, that is
@yoyohanna Thank you!
@randomknits 🙌
@randomknits PS expect to get unlisted as a labelling volunteer too. 😛
@randomknits Was meant to say “enlisted,” of course. Don’t you want to get on the good side of our future AI Knitting Computer Robot overlords?
@ceibner That works! Can you please drop in an email to knittingml@krishoward.org? I have a processing pipeline set up 😉
@ceibner Thank you my dear!!
Currently up to 113 images! Not bad for the first day…
RT @randomknits: Got knitting? @krishoward is collecting images of stockinette, garter, moss and seed stitch for a machine learning project…
@DataRenee Really excellent point!
@RobMurrish I thought about it, and synthetic data has been used to augment training data for other attempts. I’m keeping it in my back pocket as a fallback if I don’t get enough real samples.
@stringy Wooooo! Please. 🙂
PLEASE click and read the blog post about the types of images I’m after before sending! Whole garment photos aren’t really useful at this point, and I’m only after basic stitches.
@JanelleCShane Thanks! A friend pointed me to that paper a while back. I’m sure there are other people working on the same thing. I’m not a researcher; this is just a funny little passion project to learn about ML so I’m starting small to see what I can learn!
@doridoidea That’s absolutely amazing – thank you for sharing! I will definitely see if I can augment with your photos and cite your work if I do.
@JacobsThorin @GalaxyKate That’s correct – just those to start with.
@mackles01 I got some advice from an expert last week who suggested I leave them in colour for now. He also gave advice on how I could twiddle the colours to potentially create more training data. So “as is” to start!
@karinslegers @katta_spiel Thank you!
Woke up to a lot of replies and notifications that I’d received a lot more emailed photos! Currently up to about 200. Most helpfully, @JanelleCShane and @doridoidea pointed me to some existing data sets I can use to augment the one I’m building! 😍
@betsybookworm Having a BIG Twitter name is such a good idea! I wish more of them did it. 🙂
@phoebegoh At this point, the tech talk I’ll give about this project is going to be 80% cleaning up the data. 😂 I mean, I kinda knew based on what I’d read of other ML projects, but this really brings it home…
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@frostickle @darkhorse166 I don’t know who you-know-who is, but the callout is also on Ravelry if they’re there. 🙂 https://t.co/bccyZNsgYG
@amberhimesmatz @DuchessFounder @JanelleCShane I thought about it, but most photos there are of completed articles. Rarely do folks bother to take high-res images of particular stitch patterns, unless they’re tricky or weird (which I’m excluding from this MVP). I also figure people contributing sidesteps permission issue.
RT @mipsytipsy: Btw, if you have any interest whatsoever in observability-driven development, engineering culture, or how functional teams…
@mipsytipsy My favourite part is all the spot puns. 😜
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