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After weeks of tweaking, my AI still misses the birds I care about most.
I started using AI to sort my bird photos. It works for common birds, but fails on rare ones I want to track. Any ideas on how to fix this for less common data?
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noah_barnes2mo ago
Sounds like you're asking a general tool to do a specialist's job. Maybe the rare birds just have better camouflage against algorithms. Could be more about the training data than your tweaking.
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barnes.brian2mo ago
Yeah, that's the classic problem with off-the-shelf AI. It's trained on millions of common images, so your rare sightings are basically invisible to it. You gotta feed it those specific birds yourself. Manually tag a bunch of your own photos of the rare ones and retrain a small model on just your dataset. It's a pain, but it's the only way to make it care about what you care about.
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skylerg172mo ago
Last year I tried to get a model to spot rusty blackbirds in my local marsh shots. I had maybe fifty clear pictures of them, but the AI kept calling them grackles or starlings every single time. I had to sit and label every feather on those fifty photos before it finally started to get them right. It's exactly like you said, the thing just doesn't see what it hasn't already seen a million times before. That manual tagging grind is the only real fix.
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