My Top 5 Posts So Far

It’s been nearly 18 months since I started this blog. I did it to share my journey in computer vision with you. I love this field and I’m always stumbling across such fascinating things that I feel as though more people should know about them.

I’ve seen this blog grow in popularity – much, much more than I had anticipated when I first started it. In this little “bonus” post, I thought I’d list my top posts thus far with additional comments about them.

I also thought I’d compile a second list with my personal favourite posts. These have not been as popular but I sure as hell had fun writing them!

Enjoy! And thanks for the support over the last 18 months.

My top 5 posts thus far:

1. Why Deep Learning Has Not Superseded Traditional Computer Vision – I wrote this post on a Friday evening directly after work with a beer bottle in one hand and people playing pool or foosball around me. I wrote it up in an hour or so and didn’t think much of it, to be honest. The next day I woke up and saw, to my extreme surprise, that it had gone slightly viral! It was featured in Deep Learning Weekly (Issue #76), was being reposted by people such as Dr Adrian Rosebrock from PyImageSearch, and was getting about 1000 hits/day. Not bad, hey!?
2. The Top Image Datasets and Their Challenges
3. Finding a Good Thesis Topic in Computer Vision – I wrote this post after constantly seeing people asking this question on forums. Considering it’s consistently in my top 3 posts every week, I guess people are still searching for inspiration.
4. Mapping Camera Coordinates to a 2D Floor Plan – This post came about after I had to work on security footage from a bank for a project at work. The boss was very pleased with what I had done and writing about my experiences in a post was a no-brainer after that.
5. The Early History of Computer Vision – History is something that really interests me so it was only a matter of time before I was going to read up on the history of computer vision. Once I did and saw how fascinating it was, I just had to write a post about it.

My favourite posts thus far:

Like I said, these are not popular (some barely get a single hit in a week) but I really enjoyed researching for and writing them.

1. Soccer on Your Tabletop – The coolest thing going around in computer vision.
2. Amazon Go – Computer Vision at the Forefront of Innovation – This to me is something amazing.
3. The Baidu and ImageNet Controversy – Nothing like a good controversy!
4. Computer Vision on Mars – Computer vision in space. Imagine working on that project!
5. The Growth of Computer Vision in the Industry / The Reasons Behind the Recent Growth of Computer Vision – I’m proud of how far computer vision has come over the years. It’s been a pleasure to be a part of the adventure.

Enjoy looking back over my posts. Thanks once again for your support over the last 18 months.

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