FiftyOne Computer Vision Community Update – February 2024

Jimmy Guerrero

February 9, 2024

Welcome to the monthly blog series where we bring you up to speed on recent happenings in the FiftyOne community and celebrate noteworthy milestones. 🙌 🚀

Community Spotlights

We love hearing how FiftyOne helps you solve challenges and reach new heights! Here’s a highlight from the community.

Shout out to our friends at Kitro who use the open source FiftyOne computer vision toolkit as a key ingredient in developing ML models and curating datasets for training.

Kitro is a Swiss company on a mission to harness the power of technology and use it for sustainable change. With artificial intelligence as the foundation, Kitro offers an automated food waste data collection and analysis solution that can be adopted by food and beverage outlets worldwide.

As Head of Machine Learning, Luka Posilović puts it, “FiftyOne is a key ingredient for Kitro in developing ML models and curating dataset for training our models. We use it extensively for data curation and it helps us a lot in investigating the mistakes our pipeline makes. The similarity search feature and looking at the data from the embedding view has helped us make changes in the dataset we couldn’t otherwise see. We are also more and more integrating FiftyOne in the automated models testing. It’s really a “Swiss army knife” for working with data.”

Visit Kitro to learn more about their innovative work: https://www.kitro.ch/

You can also dive into how Kitro uses AI to perform food classification at this month’s AI, Machine Learning and Data Science Meetup on Feb 15.

Community Rewards

Is your organization using FiftyOne to solve interesting computer vision problems? Share your success story and claim a box of community rewards as a thank you!

Product Releases

In January there were a few point releases to both the open source and Teams versions of FiftyOne. Here are the links to the releases learn more:

Open Source FiftyOne

FiftyOne 0.23.4 – Jan 25
FiftyOne 0.23.3 – Jan 19

FiftyOne Teams

FiftyOne Teams 1.5.5 – Jan 25
FiftyOne Teams 1.5.4 – Jan 19

What’s New?

January’s releases brought two new exciting features!

Hugging Face integration

FiftyOne now integrates natively with Hugging Face’s Transformers library, so you can load, fine-tune, and run inference with your favorite Transformers models on your FiftyOne datasets with just a few lines of code! Check out the Docs to learn more.

SuperGradients integration

FiftyOne now integrates natively with Deci AI’s SuperGradients library, so you can run inference with YOLO-NAS architectures on your FiftyOne datasets with just a few lines of code! Check out the Docs to learn more.

FiftyOne on GitHub

GitHub is home to the open source FiftyOne project. Here’s the latest snapshot of what’s happening in the FiftyOne GitHub repo:

Total stars: 6,400+
Total contributors: 86
Total used by: 471
Total forks: 459
Total issues closed so far: 980

FiftyOne Community Slack

The FiftyOne Community Slack channel is where you can join more than 2,200 machine learning engineers and data scientists using FiftyOne to improve the quality of their computer vision data and build better models. Ask questions, answer questions, or simply follow along with the discussion!

To make it easy to catch the highlights, every Friday we recap interesting questions and answers from Slack in Tips & Tricks blog series. Recent posts include:

Computer Vision Meetups

Voxel51 sponsors 13 virtual Computer Vision Meetups and 12 AI, Machine Learning and Data Science Meetups around the world. (To join, visit the Meetup links and scroll down to find the location friendliest to your time zone.)

The Computer Vision Meetups are geared towards data scientists, machine learning engineers, and open source enthusiasts who want to expand their knowledge of computer vision and complementary technologies. We put an emphasis on open source software, and speakers who are computer vision practitioners or academics doing research in the field. This month’s Meetups include:

Feb 15 Computer Vision Meetup

Next Generation Video Understanding – James Le at Twelve Labs
Towards Fair Computer Vision: Discover the Hidden Biases of an Image Classifier – Chenliang Xu at University of Rochester
Food Waste Classification with AI – Luka Posilović, PhD at KITRO
Objects and Image Geo-localization from Visual Data – Safwan Wshah at University of Vermont

Recapping Previous Meetups

If you missed any of last month’s Meetup, you can get the executive summaries and links to the video playbacks here.

Upcoming Computer Vision Events

In addition to Meetups, we invite you to join us for one or more of these upcoming events:

Feb 15 – Build Better Multimodal RAG Pipelines with FiftyOne, LlamaIndex, and Milvus
Feb 21 – FiftyOne Plugins Workshop
Feb 28 – Getting Started with FiftyOne Workshop

New Docs, Blogs, Videos, and Tutorials

We want everyone to be successful with FiftyOne, and one of the ways we try to do that is by publishing resources that you might find helpful and handy. Here’s a list of some of the new documentation, blogs, videos, tutorials, integrations, and cheat sheets that you may want to check out.

Recent Blogs

Voxel51’s Commitment to Open Source and Community

Open source, transparency, and giving back to the computer vision community is what we are all about! Whether it’s developing the open source FiftyOne computer vision toolset to help engineers and data scientists build high-quality datasets and models, sponsoring Meetups to help members boost their computer vision knowledge, or giving to charitable causes on behalf of the community, Voxel51 is committed to bringing transparency and clarity to the world’s data.

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