Machine learning is all the programming craze these days, so I thought to give it a shot myself. In all honesty, the (undoubtedly important) applications of machine learning are mostly outside my immediate interests, at least at present. But for fun, I thought to play with the intriguing TensorFlow.js library and see what I could come up with. In this post we’ll do an image-to-text with TensorFlow – a silly little program that takes an input image, detects its content, and generates some semi-random text with it.
A complete description of what machine learning and TensorFlow are is beyond the scope of this post. If you’re familiar with them, you anyway don’t need me to tell you. If you’re not but would like to find out more, feel free to read about them on the TensorFlow site (linked above) or Wikipedia.
And if you’re neither familiar nor interested in finding out more, you can still continue reading to see the results we can get. No programming knowledge required for reading; only curiosity.
