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Do CNNs see like us? What the analogy helps us test
Feature hierarchies, ventral and dorsal pathways, and global-to-detail processing: the contributions and limits of bio-inspiration.
- AI & machine learning
- Computer vision
- Cognitive science
Adversarial attacks: the image barely changes, the prediction flips
Gradient-based methods, transfer and defenses: understanding a fundamental neural network weakness.
- AI & machine learning
- Computer vision
- Research methods
One vector space for everything? Benchmarking CLIP, FashionCLIP and OpenAI
Two catalogues, three encoders and one protocol for choosing a vector space according to the actual task.
- Search & recommendation
- Computer vision
- AI & machine learning
From embedding space to a visual-search service
The journey from CLIP experiments to a tested, observable and reproducible vector-search API.
- Search & recommendation
- Computer vision
- AI & machine learning
Designing a configurable multimodal product recommender
Architecture, incremental processing, multimodal fusion and HNSW search for recommendations without user history.
- Search & recommendation
- AI & machine learning
- Computer vision
Image segmentation: isolating the product before computing similarity
Why I explored YOLOv8 product segmentation before embedding images in a visual-search engine.
- Computer vision
- Search & recommendation
- AI & machine learning
DeepUX: predict a rating or compare two interfaces?
A from-scratch CNN, frozen ResNet50, fine-tuning and correlation metrics for comparing the perceived UX of two interfaces.
- UX & design
- Computer vision
- AI & machine learning
Each post separates findings, methodological limitations and possible uses. The primary sources are my publications, doctoral research and cited papers.
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