It was the stations captain, Jeffrey Kimura of the Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD), who directed researchers attention to another possible source: turnout gear, the personal protective equipment that keeps them safe on the job
Though they contain set pieces of suspenseful actionhe is particularly fond of airship battles and dramatic rescues in the skythey have a much quieter, less frenetic feel
Leaders in smaller jurisdictions might say, Yes but we are not New York City or Minneapolis. At that point, police chiefs need to be blunt with their mayors saying something like, Respectfully your honor, we may not be plagued by as many shootings as New York City and Minneapolis, however defunding will lead to a precipitous drop in all enforcement activities
Training Details (Skip this part if you arent interested in AI programming) - I used 2000 synthetic 512x512 px training images (plus 200 synthetic validation images) - I did ZERO training on real images - I trained the "heads" for 4 epochs of 500 steps and the full network for another 4 epochs - Resnet50 backbone (Resnet101 caused OOM errors) using COCO pre-trained weights - Training took about 20 minutes on my computer - Final losses after the 8th epoch: loss: 0.3615 - rpn_class_loss: 0.0023 - rpn_bbox_loss: 0.1823 - mrcnn_class_loss: 0.0232 - mrcnn_bbox_loss: 0.0636 - mrcnn_mask_loss: 0.0901 - val_loss: 0.3261 - val_rpn_class_loss: 0.0013 - val_rpn_bbox_loss: 0.1875 - val_mrcnn_class_loss: 0.0043 - val_mrcnn_bbox_loss: 0.0535 - val_mrcnn_mask_loss: 0.0794 Results It's far from perfect, and probably isn't practical to bolt onto a robot right now, but with more training and improvements in GPU hardware, I think this could be a viable solution to pick up cigarette butts on a huge scale
Denise Balas, talent acquisition specialist for Geisinger, recently participated in a discussion with Eileen Cipriani, deputy secretary of the state Department of Labor and Industry, at CareerLink in Wilkes-Barre about the challenges of trying to hire local employees amid a tight labor market
