Current Location: Edge Esmeralda, Drafts and Demo weekend.
Decided to work more on project, because there are some machine learning domain experts here.
Used Roboflow auto labeler to begin labeling. 1 frame per second, for a total of 174 images.
Only label applied is train-car. This allows further image processing and analysis to be done in separate pipeline, ideally using a VLM.
Goals for weekend
Count cars, extract one image per train car. Output some stats.
Create 1 minute demo video
Write philosophy about of visual sampling.
create video with song
Outcome
Counted some train cars. It’s not perfect, likely need more/better training data. Using a custom trained YOLOv8 model to recognize individual train-cars