2018 was a fantastic year for hacking with computer vision! Over the course of the year, Clarifai partnered with Major League Hacking to give students at hackathons around the world access to Clarifai computer vision APIs and the resources to fuel their creativity. Check out 100 of them in this post! And want to get started building your own image recognition app? Sign up for your free Clarifai account here!
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A Few of Our Favorite Hacks
Here are a few of our favorite creative Clarifai hacks from this season.
Pawsitivity
Pawsitivity chrome extension that uses sentiment analysis to monitor internet behavior and help prevent you from saying overly negative things.
Chromaptic
Visualizations of the color schemes that best represent cities in the United States.
Melanoma Kiosk
A low-cost way to identify potentially cancerous skin lesions with Clarifai’s image recognition.
Imusi
A mobile app that gives you music suggestions based on your environment using image recognition.
The Full List
Below is the complete list of hacks from Clarifai's most recent season with Major League Hacking. Click on a hack name to learn more and meet the creators and the sponsoring hackathon venue.
Cover it ASAP! – NSFW Predictor
A chrome extension that automatically blurs NSFW images while you browse.
Getsense
A project that uses Clarifai to monitor your property, to detect if strangers are close to your belongings.
Juuly the Bear
An app meant to discourage using vape cigarettes in public locations, by recognizing it with the Clarifai API and messaging them on Facebook.
PillPix
An app that lets you take a picture of medication and identify it, in order to prevent taking the wrong medication.
Dr. Gram
Uses pictures to identify skin conditions, allergies, bug bites, and many other symptoms – then recommends remedies!
FitterU
Makes you stay accountable on your diet through image recognition and machine learning.
Grace
A smart fashion assistant that uses object detection.
Snap Nutrients
Gives you nutritional information on food after you take a picture of it.
Orion Data
Recommends videos for consumers and gives valuable analytics for video creators.
Fresh Bite
A smart meal planner that offers recipe recommendations based on the food you have.
Recipic
Allows you to take pictures of ingredients for information on how to work with them.
TD American Sign Language Helper
A sign language to English voice converter, for easier communication.
Healthy Bridge
Bridges the gap between doctors and patients in order to combat mental illness, via Clarifai.
Invisualize
A tool that analyzes investment trends and gives recommendations based on them.
IYIFX
Measures users' emotional states based on Instagram posts.
Senti
A chrome extension that monitors emotional states when browsing websites.
CaneNine
An IoT cane for the visually impaired that automatically detects the environment and guides the user.
Melanoma Kiosk
A low-cost way to identify potentially cancerous skin lesions with Clarifai’s image recognition.
YummyTummy
Lets you take a picture of food at restaurants and identify ingredients.
DermaPal
Identifies acne with Clarifai and provides treatment ideas as well as product recommendations.
Instagram Tag Generator
Auto-generates tags for Instagram posts.
Recipe-Thyme
Generates recipes for ingredients you have on hand via a photo.
Identi-Flower
Identifies flowers based on photos.
In Good Hands Insurance
Allows users to quickly raise insurance claims based on photos.
Soyboy
Identifies pictures that contain soylents.
WhosThere
Identifies if a stranger is at the user's door.
Image 2 Haiku
Auto-generates a haiku based on a picture.
Gophar
Takes photos and makes travel recommendations based on the content of them.
RU You?
A hardware device that only allows permitted users to access candy.
SkinSthetic
Analyzes skin imperfections and give recommendations for how to treat them.
Kalories
A more convenient calorie logger that logs just based on photos.
President Finder
Uses your demographic info to determine how likely you are to become president.
FoodScanner
Gives you a nutritional breakdown of food based on your a photos of your food.
Pawsitivity
A chrome extension that uses sentiment analysis to monitor internet behavior.
Diagnosis App
An app that identifies illnesses based on visible symptoms.
CrowdBit
Crowdsources machine learning resources from public users.
SocialmedAI
Uses machine learning to caption Instagram photos.
Calorie Camera
Counts calories based on photos of food.
CarTrack
Tracks suspicious cars via photos.
CLAIRvoyant
Uses Clarifai to tell you a story based on a photo.
Inspirational Image Search
Uses the Clarifai API to find photos that the user might love.
Fusion
Uses computer vision to help hard of hearing users.
Unravel Travel
Based on a URL of a locale, finds popular tourist destinations for the user.
Doggo Spotto
Categorizes dogs based on their fluff status.
HowBad
Uses machine learning to calculate the damage inflicted on a car.
IoT Smart Trash Can
Automatically sorts types of garbage with machine learning.
Nickify
A service that allows you to replace faces in pictures with any additional image selected by the user.
Kalorimate
A chatbot that uses image recognition to identify food ingredients and then provides nutrition information for your meal.
Meme Market
A fun and educational way for young people to learn about investing by trading memes with other users.
Stepify
A web app paired with a camera device that documents falls to help the elderly and visually-impaired regain independence.
Agrobuddy
A robot that can navigate through fields and fetch data like soil structure and crop data to estimate the health of a crop.
Foodies
An app that gives users recommendations of other items to buy based on their purchase history and pictures of items.
Valyou
A web app that calculates an overall general diversity score for a website using computer vision and web scraping.
Fridge Me Up Inside
An application that lets you take pictures of your fridge and find recipes based on the ingredients you already have.
Y'eat
A mobile app that allows restaurants to easily donate leftover food by taking pictures and connecting with food banks.
Elementbook
A machine learning model that determines the ingredients in a food from its image.
Snapability
A mobile app to help the visually impaired use and experience social media, using computer vision to describe images.
Wo-Hack
A mobile scavenger hunt game that uses image recognition to give the user hints to find the next item.
Picture for the Blind Program
A mobile app that helps the visually impaired use their phone to describe items in front of them.
AllProcessedImages
A tool that uses image recognition to convert street-view maps into a searchable database.
Imusi
A mobile app that gives you music suggestions based on your environment using image recognition.
DTDY: Do That Dish Yourself
A mobile app that lets users identify what other people are eating so they can order it or cook it themselves.
Tell me the drink
A web application that uses image recognition to identify cocktails and provides recipes.
Scantry
A mobile app that acts as a pantry inventory management tool.
Clarifairy
A searchable database that allows users to quickly find images stored on their computers using keywords.
GFood
A mobile app that allows users to flip through images of food, and then receive a text with the location of that food.
Check out my watch a ma callit
A web app that uses CV to identify everyday objects for school children and people with Alzheimers.
Chro map tic
A website with visualizations of the color schemes that best represent cities in the United States.
Anilog
A web app that lets users search for animals closest to their location.
Amber
A system which connects cameras to street lights and, using image recognition, changes traffic signals based on actual traffic.
SwaipuWaifu
A deep learning model trained on data scraped from a user's Tinder swipes to automate the swiping process.
MagicMushroom
A web app that uses image recognition to tell a user whether a mushroom they find is edible or not.
Super Fit
A gamified health and fitness tracking mobile app that uses image recognition to record food.
Picturlate
A mobile app that allows users to tap pictures of common objects and then translates the name of the item into different languages.
Western University Recycle Bot
A chat bot that allows you to easily figure out what items are recyclable and which are not.
Path Tracing
A website that uses machine learning technology to track potential criminal paths through CCTV systems.
Keep Fresh
A mobile app that lets you identify food and keep track of expiration dates of items in your refrigerator and pantry.
Natural.ly
A mobile app providing machine-learning visual recognition of wildlife to aid Canadian environmental stewardship.
DeliverooSim
An online game where the user plays as a Deliveroo delivery partner to deliver food using Google street maps.
ForgotMeNot
A mobile app that uses image recognition and visual stimuli to help early onset Alzheimer's patients remember daily tasks.
Whew, that's a lot of hacks! And it's a fraction of all the ways Clarifai is being used today.
Have an idea for a computer vision project? Take inspiration from these folks and give it your best hack! Clarifai has a free tier for small projects, like those featured above. Sign up for your own account here!
