What we’re about
🖖 This virtual group is for data scientists, machine learning engineers, and open source enthusiasts who want to expand their knowledge of AI, ML and computer vision and complementary technologies. Every month we’ll bring you two diverse speakers working at the cutting edge of AI.
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This Meetup is sponsored by Voxel51, the lead maintainers of the open source FiftyOne computer vision toolset. To learn more about FiftyOne, visit the project page on GitHub: https://github.com/voxel51/fiftyone
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Network event96 attendees from 36 groups hostingMay 13 - Object Detection & Instance Segmentation: YOLO in Practice WorkshopLink visible for attendees
When and Where
- May 13, 2025
- 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM CET | 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM Pacific
- Workshops are delivered over Zoom
About the Workshop
Join us for a 12-part, hands-on series that teaches you how to work with images, build and train models, and explore tasks like image classification, segmentation, object detection, and image generation. Each session combines straightforward explanations with practical coding in PyTorch and FiftyOne, allowing you to learn core skills in computer vision and apply them to real-world tasks.
In this session, we’ll introduce object detection and instance segmentation methods. Build a YOLO-based network to perform object detection and instance segmentation, and analyze detection results with FiftyOne.
These are hands-on maker workshops that make use of GitHub Codespaces, Kaggle notebooks, and Google Colab environments, so no local installation is required (though you are welcome to work locally if preferred!)
Workshop Resources
You can find the workshop materials in this GitHub repository.
About the Instructor
Antonio Rueda-Toicen, an AI Engineer in Berlin, has extensive experience in deploying machine learning models and has taught over 300 professionals. He is currently a Research Scientist at the Hasso Plattner Institute. Since 2019, he has organized the Berlin Computer Vision Group and taught at Berlin’s Data Science Retreat. He specializes in computer vision, cloud technologies, and machine learning. Antonio is also a certified instructor of deep learning and diffusion models in NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Institute.
- Network event57 attendees from 36 groups hostingMay 14 - Getting Started with FiftyOne Virtual WorkshopLink visible for attendees
When and Where
May 14, 2025 | 9:00 – 10:30 AM Pacific
About the Workshop
Want greater visibility into the quality of your computer vision datasets and models? Then join us for this free 90-minute, hands-on workshop to learn how to leverage the open source FiftyOne computer vision toolset.
At the end of the workshop you’ll be able to:
- Visualize complex datasets
- Explore embeddings
- Analyze and improve models
- Perform advanced data curation
- Integrations
This workshop will explore the importance of taking a data-centric approach to computer vision workflows. We will start with importing and exploring visual data, then move to querying and filtering. Next, we’ll look at ways to extend FiftyOne’s functionality and simplify tasks using plugins and native integrations. We’ll generate candidate ground truth labels, and then wrap things up by evaluating the results of fine tuning a foundational model.
Prerequisites: working knowledge of Python and basic computer vision concepts.
All attendees will get access to the tutorials, videos, and code examples used in the workshop
- Network event53 attendees from 36 groups hostingMay 20 - Image Generation: Diffusion Models & U-Net WorkshopLink visible for attendees
When and Where
- May 20, 2025
- 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM CET | 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM Pacific
- Workshops are delivered over Zoom
About the Workshop
Join us for a 12-part, hands-on series that teaches you how to work with images, build and train models, and explore tasks like image classification, segmentation, object detection, and image generation. Each session combines straightforward explanations with practical coding in PyTorch and FiftyOne, allowing you to learn core skills in computer vision and apply them to real-world tasks.
In this session, we’ll explore image generation techniques using diffusion models. Participants will build a U-Net-based model to generate MNIST-like images and then inspect the generated outputs with FiftyOne.
These are hands-on maker workshops that make use of GitHub Codespaces, Kaggle notebooks, and Google Colab environments, so no local installation is required (though you are welcome to work locally if preferred!)
Workshop Resources
You can find the workshop materials in this GitHub repository.
About the Instructor
Antonio Rueda-Toicen, an AI Engineer in Berlin, has extensive experience in deploying machine learning models and has taught over 300 professionals. He is currently a Research Scientist at the Hasso Plattner Institute. Since 2019, he has organized the Berlin Computer Vision Group and taught at Berlin’s Data Science Retreat. He specializes in computer vision, cloud technologies, and machine learning. Antonio is also a certified instructor of deep learning and diffusion models in NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Institute.
- Network event7 attendees from 37 groups hostingMay 21 - Advanced Computer Vision Data Curation and Model EvaluationLink visible for attendees
When and Where
May 21, 2025 | 9:00 – 10:30 AM Pacific
About the Workshop
Are you looking for simpler and more accurate ways to perform common data curation and model evaluation tasks for your computer vision workflows?Then this workshop with Harpreet Sahota is for you! In this 90 min hands-on workshop, we’ll show you how to make use of FiftyOne’s panel and plugin framework to learn how to:
- Customize the FiftyOne App to work the way you want to work
- Quickly integrate FiftyOne with new models, datasets, and MLOps tools
- Automate common data curation and model evaluation tasks
- Streamline your computer vision workflows with less code and more clicks
Whether you are a beginner or advanced user of FiftyOne, looking for how to get started with customizing the dozens of existing plugins or interested in creating your own, there will be something for you in this workshop!
Prerequisites
A working knowledge of Python and basic familiarity with FiftyOne. All attendees will get access to the tutorials, videos, and code examples used in the workshop.
Past events (2354)
See all- Network event163 attendees from 35 groups hostingMay 6 - Image Embeddings: Zero-shot Classification with CLIP WorkshopThis event has passed
