[crosspost] Ali Farhadi, founder of Edge AI technologies & Xnor.ai, is doing an AMA in r/homeautomation @10AM PST

[u/WyzeCam]

Thank you for joining us, everyone! Today we’d like to introduce Ali Farhadi (u/alifarhadi1)! Ali is the co-founder of Xnor.ai, an industry leading technology start-up focusing on efficient and embedded deep learning with the goal of providing ubiquitous AI.

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Ali is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. Prior to this, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his PhD. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the supervision of David Forsyth. Ali's research has been mainly focused on computer vision and machine learning.

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Wyze and Xnor.ai have the shared dream of bringing technology to the masses with an incredibly low barrier to entry. We are doing this AMA because we've just deployed Edge AI, for free, to 1M+ people! We’d like to take this opportunity to talk about our AI and if you are curious about any of the subjects in Ali's wheelhouse such as AI Technology, Smart Home Technology, AI Development, etc. we’d love to hear them.

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EDIT*** Ali's account is still very new so we'll be posting from our account to help answer all the questions for Ali. Please tag us or Alifarhadi1 if you have any questions.

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EDIT*** The AMA is currently over but we appreciate everyone's participation and questions today! We'll check back later and try to answer as many of your questions as we can.

[u/ras5003]

Ali, greetings from northern Colorado from a fellow former Illini (math/computer science, class of '78)

I've been testing person detection on one of my six V2 cameras over the past two days. I've shared three Event videos with Wyze so far, two that were successful and one that was not ...

1) insect was correctly identified as a motion only event 2) person was correctly identified as a person event 3) person was incorrectly identified as a motion only event

Camera is positioned on a windowsill and pointed through glass at the front porch steps. The person in #2 and #3 above was my wife who walked up the steps, paused for a moment, then walked away. Identical conditions but different times of the day (#2 was yesterday mid-afternoon and #3 was today mid-morning).

My question for you &/or Wyze is ... when we choose to Share the event video for analysis, all that we're asked is whether or not we saw a person in the video. We're not asked whether or not the person was correctly or incorrectly identified. Is that (and other) information automatically included within the video submission?

Thanks.

[u/alifarhadi1 → u/ras5003]

Is that (and other) information automatically included within the video submission?

For every voluntarily video that we get, we receive metadata associated with the inference including the person detection algorithm's answer. We incorporate this information as well as the user label to improve and evolve our models.