Last week I gave an introductory lecture on imaging with radio interferometers. I started off with a Python demonstration of Fourier filtering using cat pictures, which seemed pretty popular and lead to one of my fellow lecturers coining the term "Furrier Cats" (this is genius and I wish I'd thought of it). Since it was …
Making Faces
Recently I've been thinking about classification again, this time with more of an emphasis on object detection. Even surprising complex and diverse objects can be detected using machine learning algorithms: trees, people, fruit... First off, let's draw a line between detection and recognition. For example, when it comes to people, facial detection is simply telling …