Build your own deep learner

BYODL is a framework for building deep learning-based mobile apps to solve domain-specific image recognition problems. Domain-specific image recognition problems are challenging due to lack of labeled data - few have the expertise to assign labels to the images. By using the mobile app to collect data, our framework speeds up the process of improving the model's performance and makes the updated version readily available to app users. By handling the details of setting up the infrastructure and the mobile app boilerplate, BYODL helps users produce a functional image recognition app in a matter of hours instead of months. We designed BYODL with an eye towards customizability, simplicity, and efficiency, which led to interesting implementation challenges and design trade-offs. In this thesis, we present the motivations for BYODL, discuss aspects of its design and implementation, and report on its use cases in the real world.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2017

Author dc:creator

• Wong, David, M. Eng. (David Y.). Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Kalyan Veeramachaneni.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113452

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/113452