Lesson 1 In-Class Discussion ✅

[matdmiller (Mat M)]

There are quite a few forum posts on collecting your own images

https://forums.fast.ai/search?q=%22google%20image%22

Tips for building large image datasets

Nice projects and thanks for the details. I’ve been thinking about building out a dataset for artist/style classification in the hopes that it’ll produce more interesting embeddings for style transfer from those pretrained weights. I’ll give your method a try. You mentioned search by date range reduces duplicate photos. The google_images_download cli supports specific site searches so I’ll probably just target wikimedia. Thanks for the great suggestions here.

Generating image datasets quickly

Hello everyone! I was going to start my second pass on the fastai course yesterday and wanted to follow through the courses with my own case studies this time. While that hasn’t been difficult for structured data (my work involves a lot of that) or language models (shockingly there’s a lot of text out there for all of us), it has been a bit trickier for image datasets. Yesterday I found a really easy way of going about that. It was all possible with the google images downloader firefox addon: h…

How to scrape the web for images?

I sometimes use this chrome extension for downloading images.