Operators, product owners, and people affected by the vision decision.
Deep learning · weeks 13
Image ML
A factory has few positive examples of costly visual defects.
Opening production brief
A measurable problem, before a model.
NCHW tensors, convolution, receptive fields, augmentation with version, owner, event time, and availability contracts.
A factory has few positive examples of costly visual defects. Every solution must state latency, cost, capacity, and fallback limits.
Offline evidence plus a deployable resolution: CNN and transfer-learning baselines with augmentation, calibration, and monitoring.
Frame and baseline
Turn the production problem into explicit data, metric, and baseline contracts.
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Images are data contracts
Image preprocessing is model code; version and test it from raw bytes to final tensor.
65–90 min · checkpoint · deterministic lab - 02↗
Convolution under the microscope
Convolution is a repeated local dot product whose shape and spatial behavior follow directly from kernel, padding, stride, and dilation.
65–90 min · checkpoint · deterministic lab
Build and stress
Formalize the machinery, test counterexamples, and expose system limits.
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Receptive fields, normalization, and residuals
Depth works when context grows deliberately and identity paths keep shapes and gradients connected.
65–90 min · checkpoint · deterministic lab - 04↗
Transfer learning for classification, detection, and segmentation
Transfer the representation in measured stages, while letting the required output and leakage-safe split define the task.
65–90 min · checkpoint · deterministic lab
Resolve and operate
Join model behavior to architecture, observability, rollout, and rollback.
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Vision in the wild: thresholds, latency, and drift
Production vision is a thresholded, timed, monitored decision system—not an accuracy number attached to a model file.
65–90 min · checkpoint · deterministic lab - HW↗
Rare-defect vision system
Design grouped evaluation, transfer learning, calibration, batch-one export, and camera-drift monitoring.
Rubric · staged hints · reference resolution
Prerequisite guidance
1 concepts make this faster.
Prerequisites are guidance, never hard gates.