Yelp Restaurant Photo Classification, Winner's Interview: 2nd Place, Thuyen Ngo
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Fang-Chieh C., Data Mining Engineer
- May 4, 2016
The Yelp Restaurant Photo Classification competition challenged Kagglers to assign attribute labels to restaurants based on a collection of user-submitted photos. At the final tally, 355 players tackled this unique machine learning problem. Last week, we published Dmitrii Tsybulevskii’s 1st place solution here; Thuyen Ngo finished in 2nd place, with an F1 score of 0.83168, and describes his strategy in this week’s interview. The Basics What was your background prior to entering this challenge? I am a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara. I am doing research in human vision and computer vision. In a...