"No one is harder on a talented person than the person themselves" - Linda Wilkinson ; "Trust your guts and don't follow the herd" ; "Validate direction not destination" ;

February 24, 2021

Deep Learning Healthcare Applications - Research Paper reads

Paper #1 - System for Recommending Facial Skincare Products

Key Notes

  • Multi-feature processing and classification of skin quality and acne status

Approach

  • K-means cluster to search for acne
  • Binary threshold using an adaptive method
  • Identified the location of acne and provided recommendations to consumers
  • A scale of oiliness was produced by labeling images of the weighted average

Steps

  • The first feature used to determine whether the skin is oily
  • Acne detection
  • The brightness image is subtracted from the normalized grayscale image

Paper #2 - A Computer Vision Application for Assessing Facial Acne Severity from Selfie Images

Keynotes

  • Acne is the 8th most common skin disorder in the world
  • Transfer learning approach by extracting image features using a ResNet 152 pre-trained model, then adding and training a fully connected layer to learn the target severity level from labeled images.
  • Mobile application for acne assessment
  • Extracted skin patches from facial skins
  • Haar feature-based cascade classifier
  • Eye location, we inferred the regions of the forehead, cheeks and chin skin patches

Paper #3 - Deep Learning Methods for Selecting Appropriate Cosmetic Products for Various Skin Types: A Survey

Key Notes

  • The cosmetic data from various websites @cosme and @Nykaa gathered for this model evaluation.
  • The cosmetic product composition will be given based on skin types; dry, natural or oily.

Paper #4 Deep Learning Algorithms for Recognition of Facial Ageing Features

Keynotes

  • Wrinkles, Dark spots, Under-eye circles
  • Face Detection, wrinkle detection, scoring
  • Facial zone - ensemble of regression trees, retrained for 50 fiducial points (dlib implementation) + contours detection
  • Alignment - affine transformation
  • Wrinkles area detection - cut areas by support points

More Reads


Key Notes
  • Spectral Residual (SR) - Approach based on Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). Key Steps are
  • (1) Fourier Transform to get the log amplitude spectrum; 
  • (2) calculation of spectral residual; and 
  • (3) Inverse Fourier Transform that transforms the sequence back to the spatial domain

Visual saliency detection domain. Applying CNN on the basis of SR output directly
CNN as our discriminative model architecture

More Reads

Happy Learning!!!

February 20, 2021

Weekdays vs Weekends

  • When you give an estimate on weekdays you have to include all the pressure that is going in you - meetings, team extension, blocking issues. It comes with a rough approach but clarity is not there as focus on too many deliverables or meetings
  • When you pick the idea on weekend, You have the laser focus, no distraction, no bing message in chat, no meeting reminders. Sometimes all we need is a peaceful environment to get the right solution
  • Estimates are great but having a peaceful and distraction-free environment is more important as most of it is mental logic, thinking. 

Keep going!!!


February 15, 2021

Weekend Reads

The new investments for Anti-Aging, Electric cars, Recycling supply chain are key upcoming trends towards sustainable innovation.

Keep Thinking!!!


February 13, 2021

Some New Perspectives

Sometimes few conversations strike you deeply. Assume I may live another 34 years, The number of days left is 12,410 days. I have already passed 14K days already. When I look in terms of days it seems halfway already gone. This was while attending one of the sessions I felt this thought. Another thought on routine vs rituals link. What we do with a sense of belonging vs doing for the sake of it. When we are able to connect see the big picture we know the impact of work and our involvement. I was thinking on the same lines. Not every moment we live, some moments we may live without being connected to the moment. We may just pass the days without actually living the day, moment. 

A bit more on learning, refocus, and finding my real interests in the coming days. This life is too short to plan for long.

  • First 10 years - 3650 days - Going to school, learning to cycle, hardly remember anything now
  • Second 10 years - 3650 days - Curiosity of school, tuitions, 10th, 12th, and getting into college
  • Third 10 years - 3650 days - Fresher to evolve yourself, learn in breadth or depth or domain, It keeps going, going. Spending late long nights at work.
  • Current 10 years - 3650 days - Doing masters mid 30. Figuring out next-level learning, Teaching, Travel, Consulting. Still loads to learn
When we summarize it looks like not every moment or everything is captured. Some small happy moments don't strike this moment. What we leave when we are not around is a big question. Hopefully, we can inspire others to be more positive, kind, help each other. Often it's a constant struggle to feel oneself deeply and connect everything both emotionally and rationally. Stay kind, Stay curious, Keep Going. What you like will become a ritual and part of your thoughts. What you don't like will always be a routine. It again depends on how much we can convince and be clear on the end goal, the big picture. Often, everyone does not see the same perspective/vision / the journey.

Coming out of perspectives. Next few books/topics to learn
  • Designing Data-Intensive Apps
  • Agile Conversations
  • Building Evolutionary Architectures
  • SRCNN
  • Drool Engine Architecture
Learn more, live a more ritual life and less of routine life :)

Happy Learning!!!

February 08, 2021

The Rise of SaaS Domain focused Startups

2021 would see lot more core domain-based solutions. Cloud has become mainstream, now we will have more ready to use products cutting across domains. Broader DBT adoption across sectors. This will become more of ready to deploy solutions and one-stop-shop which has all required use cases onboarded.

  • Retail cloud - Retail integration of suppliers, manufacturing, last-mile delivery
  • Health cloud - Patient management, Disease management, Pre and post operations care, and medication
  • Fin cloud - Lending, onboarding, customer integration, micro finances
  • Edu cloud - Teaching, Testing, AI-based curriculum, follow-up, Feedback
  • Insurance cloud - Insurance, mortgage, payments, Renewals

Keep Thinking!!!