May 29, 2025
Day 3 – Computer Vision Workshop: Hands-on session with YOLO
What I Learned
Today, we started the day by attending a computer vision workshop led by Andrew. We watched a video by Nvidia on computer vision and its applications. We worked on Teachable Machine by Google, where we trained an instant object detection model. The simple model was surprisingly accurate. Then, we worked on YOLOv8, implementing object detection on both image and video files.
After this workshop, we played an online escape room game called Enchambered. My team successfully escaped in under half an hour. That’s what team coordination is about!! After the game, we had a lunch break, after which Michael went over File I/O concepts, covering basic topics like reading, writing, and opening files.
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Reflection
I enjoyed today more than yesterday because we got to work hands-on with actual computer vision concepts. I would like to thank Andrew for introducing us to Teachable Machine! I will definitely use this in the future for smaller projects. When Michael went over the File I/O concepts, I had a refresher because I hadn’t used these functions in a long time.