Local Stanford Grad Made Chicken Rice Classifier In Less Than 4 Hours Mention “chicken rice” for lunch and I bet my bottom dollar, you’ll be met with euphoric shouts of approval all around. Singaporean’s love for chicken rice is unparalleled. We breathe and bleed chicken rice. With this in mind, Preston Lim, an Associate Software Engineer at GovTech Singapore, decided to do up a machine classifier to help us differentiate between steamed and roasted chicken rice pictures. Purely for laughs. Source Source Inspired by kuey.png account The entire frivolous episode started during a lunchtime conversation with brought up a hilarious Instagram account called kuey.png. Source The owner of the account uploads a different picture of chicken rice everyday – almost religiously, garnering an impressive feed and followers count. Somebody from the group then made a casual remark, Wow this would be an amazing machine learning dataset for chicken rice! That’s all it took for the cogs in Mr Lim’s brain to start whirring. Preston decided to create a machine learning classifier that allows you to take or upload a photo of chicken rice. The programme would determine and recognise if your picture was a plate of steamed or roasted chicken […]
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