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With the machine working so well, you could run each sorted batch through it again, and sort into very specific pieces/colours, if you wanted. You just need to
by mabbo 9y ago
With the machine working so well, you could run each sorted batch through it again, and sort into very specific pieces/colours, if you wanted.
You just need to re-train on those classes instead- but I bet the front-end of the tensorflow network would already be trained well enough that re-training for new classes would be very fast.
- roel_v 9y agoIIRC the machine sorts like that already, but you can't have a bin for every separate type - you'd need a warehouse of boxes, and the boxes would have to be of several sizes. So I think the pictures just illustrate how he's chosen to cluster for now, as an example to people who try to decide how they'd actually want their purchase to be grouped.
- jacquesm 9y agoCorrect. A typical bin contains many different part ids but it would be trivial to make other divisions.
- mabbo 9y agoNeat! So each item is actually identified right down to the size, colour, type, etc, but then literally bucketed into a group of similar items?
- jacquesm 9y agoYes, because otherwise I'd have to make very many passes through the machine to sort a particular batch.
- mabbo 9y agoI was thinking that you had trained the identifier just on the bucketized classes instead- fewer classes comprising all the similar parts. Maybe higher identification rate that way, or maybe not. Identifying right down to the specific colour and part means a heck of a lot of classes to train though. This kind of stuff fascinates me. I've worked on software for package sorting machines in Amazon warehouses. Very similar idea to this: identify, remove from conveyor at right place/time. Only the machines are millions of dollars, run at very high speeds, and use barcode scanning for identification.
- jacquesm 9y agoI can only dream of the kind of setup that you could make with a large budget. My only advantage is that I can put a lot of time into this project.
- Bartweiss 9y agoOne approach that seems obvious is to re-sort based on orders. If someone wants 30 different piece types, but all in blue, that'll be a pain. But if someone wants any subcategory of what's already identified, that could be approached by pulling the existing box for a new sorting run.