Meetings

Deep Learning with Caffe & DIGITS for Robotic Coin Collecting

Paul Krush

Tuesday November 17th 2015 at 7:00pm
Wheaton, Illinois Institute of Technology - Rice Campus, Room 103

Abstract

This presentation is a how-to and a personal experience of installing and using Caffe & Digits for a high speed coin sorting project. Caffe is an open source deep learning framework developed by the Berkeley Vision and Learning Center. It has been making the news mostly for high speed and ease of image classification using convolutional neural networks. DIGITS, by NVidia, is a web app for training deep learning models using Caffe, as well as other frameworks. It's easy to get started with them using low cost no-GPU Ubuntu AWS instances. The presentation will include a live demo of a system physically sorting coins by date.

After the meeting we generally adjourn to Cozymel's around the corner from IIT for a more informal get together and discussion.

Bio

Paul Krush is a software developer and mechatronics engineer. His current interests are machine vision, DIY manufacturing, small part material handling, and electrometallurgy. He currently resides in Carol Stream with his wife and two boys.

Getting to the meeting

The next General meeting of UniForum Chicago will be at: 

        IIT Rice Campus
        Room 103
        201 East Loop Road
        Wheaton, IL 60187-8489
Directions to IIT - Rice Campus in Wheaton
The 19-acre campus is located just northeast of the intersection of Naperville and Butterfield roads in south Wheaton's Danada development. The campus is three miles west of the Butterfield Road interchange of the North-South Tollway (I-355) and two miles north of the Naperville Road interchange of the East-West Tollway (I-88).

From the North or South: From I-355 (North-South Tollway), exit westbound at Rt.56/Butterfield Road and proceed west 3 1/2 miles on Butterfield Road to East Loop Road. Turn right onto East Loop Road (Phillip's 66 Gas Station on the corner); the campus will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road, behind Cozymel's. Park in the Student parking lot behind the building. Room 103 is the first room inside the north enterance.

From the I-294 (Tri-State Tollway), take the I-88 (East-West Tollway) westbound and follow directions "From the East or West" below.

From the East or West: From I-88 (East-West Tollway), take the Naperville Road exit. At the traffic light, turn right and then right again to the intersection with Naperville Road. Turn right (north) for 1.5 miles to Rt. 56/Butterfield Road. Turn right onto Rt. 56/Butterfield Road and proceed 1/4 mile to the first traffic light (East Loop Road). Turn left on to East Loop Road, ( Phillip's 66 Gas station on the corner); the campus will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road, behind Cozymel's. Park in the Student parking lot behind the building.

Room 103 is the first room inside the north enterance.

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