Real-time Object Detection with Phoenix and Python

#Code BEAM V EU 2021

TALK LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE / ADVANCED

YOLO (You Only Look Once) is a state-of-the-art, real-time object detection system. In this talk Alvise shares how we can bring its functionalities in a Phoenix app, taking advantage of Python's fantastic set of Machine Learning libraries.

Alvise will start by building an Elixir wrapper around a Python library, so he can detect objects on single images. Then we make it real-time on a Phoenix app, detecting objects from a webcam feed.

Live demo at the end!

THIS TALK IN THREE WORDS

Experiment

Object detection

Elixir

OBJECTIVES

Encourage developers to use Machine Learning in Elixir, making bold experiments
Show how to use Ports and Pyrlang to talk with Python code
Build a full real-time object detection Phoenix app, from the Python part to the integration with Elixir, using Phoenix Channels and a webcam feed

TARGET AUDIENCE

Anyone curious about Machine Learning as well as glueing different systems together
Python and Machine Learning knowledge not required
Little experience in Phoenix and OTP

Alvise Susmel

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