Recapping the Computer Vision Meetup – January 2023

Voxel51 hosted the January 2023 Computer Vision Meetup featuring presentations by Cameron R. Wolfe on Hyperparameter Scheduling for Computer Vision and Julien Simon on An Intro to Computer Vision with Hugging Face Transformers. The event also included a Q&A session and details about upcoming meetups. In the hyperparameter scheduling presentation, Cameron discussed how to use hyperparameters schedules effectively across learning rate, training precision, and video deep learning domains. He also shared insights from his research on REX: Revisiting Budgeted Training with an Improved Schedule. Julien Simon's talk provided an overview of computer vision models hosted on the Hugging Face Hub, including a brief history of computer vision in deep learning, the Vision Transformer (ViT), and how to use Hugging Face tools for working with state-of-the-art models. The meetup concluded with details about additional resources and upcoming Computer Vision Meetup locations and speakers.