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Welcome to AutoML
Recently, beginning January 2021, I have undertaken a project in which my goal is "AutoML", meaning that my goal was to attempt to automate the stages of training within a Machine learning algorithm.
In order to accomplish my task I first began by learning the basics from the Fast.ai course. I only watched the first 3-4 lectures, just to get to grips with the basics of Machine Learning, and I then went on to learning about the practical aspect.
I have created a how-to guide that will allow you to set up an environment to run the Fast.ai notebooks alongside the video lectures.
I began learning Fast.ai using the Gradient platform made by Paperspace. However after progressing into developing my own notebooks I found that Google Colaboratory was a more suitable platform for me.
My Focus Area
The field of Machine Learning has many areas to be explored. I decided to focus on the area of Computer Vision. I was particularly interested in Object Detection.
This led me to investigate one state of the art Object Detection Algorithm known as YOLOv5 (You Only Look Once version 5).
Throughout this project I have attempted to implement this model in a way that would allow me to train custom datasets.