FastAI: Classifying Brooklyn Nine-Nine Actors with Deep Learning

FastAI: Classifying Brooklyn Nine-Nine Actors with Deep Learning

They see me Holtin’ — They hatin’

With Season 7 currently airing, there’s no doubt that Brooklyn Nine-Nine is a popular TV show. I won’t go into reasons why, but if you still haven’t watched it and have some time to spare, there’s no good reason to at least not give it a try.

But this isn’t a TV Show article — it’s a Deep Learning one. To be more precise, the article aims to use the power of deep learning to classify images of actors from the show.

Okay, but, where will you get the images?

Good question. Basically the idea is to download images from the web — it’s not that my intentions are to sell this model afterward ( who’d even benefit from it? ). After downloading we’ll have to do only the basic image manipulation — cropping .

Essentially, all images were cropped to be squares, and nothing else has been done preparation-wise. The reason why is that a sophisticated Deep learning library will be used to handle the training process — FastAI .

I’ve previously written about it, and if you want to follow along make sure to have it installed and configured properly. This article might come in handy: