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Hey everyone! One of the cofounders of Lobe here - let us know if you have any questions.


Congrats on the launch mbeissinger, this is pretty cool and useful product!


I didn't see any information on pricing. I'm sure this may be a bit premature to ask, but any indications on the pricing model (or models considered) may help people who take a look at it. Similar question on licensing and usage options too (seems like there are two usage modes, one where your server does the computation with inputs provided in near real-time and another where the trained information is downloaded and imported into an app more like a static asset/model).


Looks cool. Did you have any experience with similiar earlier generations of this concept like Knime and RapidMiner?


Is Lobe only for image data? Would it work for inputs that are text files or similar?


They support more than image input, their examples have inputs such as 3d models, accelerometer data, sound, 3d depth maps, and numeric data.

It goes the other way as well and supports generation.


Yeah! You can mainly work with images and arbitrary vectors (that's what the bounding box examples we show are using, for instance) currently, and have plans to include native support for text, video, etc. as time progresses.


I guess another question here is what are heuristics for how many images are necessary for different levels of functionality. The demos look pretty impressive, but I'm not sure how much went into them.


We've been surprised how little data folks have needed to use. If you look at the examples page you'll see in the lower right hand corner of the screen shot the number of examples they uploaded and trained on. Some examples, like the water tank, it's fine to some extent if it overfits on the training data, because the nest cam will only ever be pointed at the water tank, and it's worked in all situations and been robust for us with only ~500 examples. Other times folks are more interested in prototyping out an idea to see if it's possible on a wider scale, so a small dataset works well to prove out an idea.


Any plans for Human Action Recognition?


We plan to support when we get time series data and video upload implemented.


Hi, are you hiring?




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