Car damage assessment
How to solve a classification problem
Zero prior AI knowledge is required. We’re going to plainly rip the image into a long list of numbers and put it through a deep neural network to find out what’s in that image. This is the simplest possible (and surprisingly powerful) starting point to deep learning, in our opinion.
You will do what your insurance company does, build a model that classifies damages.
- Target audience: Beginners
- Tutorial type: Get started tutorial
- Problem type: Tabular classification
You will learn to
- Build a new AI model quick and easy.
- Use a pretrained model in a classification problem.
Create project
First, click New project to create a project. Name it, so you know what kind of project it is. Naming is important.
A project combines all of the steps in solving a problem, from preprocessing of datasets to model building, evaluation, and deployment. Using projects makes it easy to collaborate with others.
Add dataset to the project
After creating the project, you will be taken to the Datasets view, where you can import data.
Click the Import free datasets button.
Look for the Car damage - tutorial data dataset in the list. Click on it to get more information.
If you agree with the license, click Accept and import.
This will import the dataset in your project, and you can now edit it.
The car damage dataset
The car damage dataset contains approximately 1,500 unique RGB images with the dimensions 224 x 224 pixels, and is split into a training- and a validation subset.
Classes
The illustration show sample images from the various classes in the dataset. Note that the unknown class contains images of cars that are in either pristine or wrecked condition.
Each collected image represents one car with one specific type of damage. This means that the dataset can be used to solve a single-label classification problem.
Build a model in the Experiment wizard
Click Use in new experiment to open the Experiment wizard.
Name the experiment in the Experiment wizard.
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Dataset tab
Make sure that the Car Damage dataset is selected. -
Inputs / target tab
Select image as Input feature and class as Target feature. -
Problem type tab
Select the Single-label image classification.
Single-label image classification is when a deep learning model predicts one class for each example.
Click Create, and all blocks needed will be added to the Modeling canvas.
Run experiment
The experiment is done and ready to be trained, so just click Run.
Analyze the experiment
In the Evaluation view, you can see how the loss gets lower for each epoch (when the complete training set has run through the model one time).
Loss graph
The loss indicates the magnitude of error your model made on its prediction. It’s a method of evaluating how well your algorithm models your dataset.
If your predictions are totally off, your loss function will output a higher number. If they’re pretty good, it’ll output a lower one. Is the loss low enough?
Yes, this is good to go.
Deploy your trained experiment
In the Evaluation view, click Create deployment.
Select experiment and checkpoint.
Make the deployment public
Toggle the switch to make your deployment public. This will allow you to share your results with friends and colleagues on, e.g., with the link, Twitter, LinkedIn.
Enable deployment
Click Enable to deploy the experiment. You can now call your deployed experiment with your own product using the Url and Token. For example, when you build your own app with Bubble.
Test with deployment web app
We’ve also made it super easy for you to test the deployment.
Click on Open web app, and you will be directed to the Deployment web app.
Now, you just need an image to test. Try to download this image of a seriously damaged car or take your own photo.
Add the image to the app and click Get your result.
Result? Yes, the model prediction is glass_shatter.
Tutorial recap
In this tutorial, you’ve created an AI experiment that you trained, evaluated, and deployed. You have used all the tools you need to go from data to production — easily and quickly.
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