Bachelor student 
Project: Object detection using YOLO

Artificial intelligence and deep learning have become ubiquitous in our lives. As an AI lab, we want to provide Bachelor student with the opportunity to learn deep learning. Therefore, we have started a student project for object detection. It has resulted in a working model for detecting tape, scissors, smartphone, and glasses, which you get to improve. This project and the computer vision pipeline consist of data collection, data processing, model training and development, and model deployment.

In this project, we use the YOLO algorithm developed by Redmond et al. in 2016 to detect common objects in our lab, i.e. identify where the objects are in our image, draw bounding boxes around them, and classify each object inside the bounding box. You will gain experience using Python, Tensorflow, and Keras to develop deep learning models that can see the world around them. Data science is an increasingly hot field where the demand exceeds the amount of data science professionals in the job market. The result of this project is intended to be displayed at future fairs or events to show students the capabilities of deep learning for computer vision. You can try it out at where.nordlinglab.org.

After successful completion of the project you will e.g.:

1. Have a clearer understanding of artificial intelligence and how to use it to solve real problems.
2. Know how to create a dataset that is useful for data science purposes.
3. Know basic image processing techniques that improve the performance of the model.
4. Be able to use a state-of-the art algorithm for object detection.
5. Have a nice project you can add to your CV.

About the Principal Investigator

Dr. Torbjörn Nordling is an Associate Professor in Automatic Control at the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at the National Cheng Kung University since Feb. 2024. He obtained both his Ph.D. in Automatic Control (2013) and his M.Sc. in Engineering Physics (2005) from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Previously, he was a Senior Lecturer in Media Technology at the Dept. of Applied Physics and Electronics at Umeå University and did a PostDoc at the Dept. of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology at Uppsala University. He has been a visiting researcher at Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine in Naples and ERATO Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project at Japan Science and Technology Agency in Tokyo. He has also co-founded several companies. For more information, please, see his Profile.