@bbrandt – Thank you for the help.
I purposefully chose data I thought would give poor results… Two families of Arum that are used as aquarium plants – Anubias and Bucephelandra. They look very similar, have identical structure and there are certain species that I mistake for each other all the time.
With ~ 450 images of each, 7 epochs, the model returned 90% accuracy (with some images that are just wrong – full aquarium shots, etc mixed in)… I haven’t done tweaking, augmentation, etc yet… I’ve doing data science professionally for some time but just… wow. See below for how visually similar there things are.
Thanks for putting this course together @jeremy I’m hooked.