Build a self-checkout with computer vision | LIVE

Join Adrienne and Nick for a hands-on livestream as we build a real-time object detector using computer vision. Whether you’re into DIY hacks, want to learn about training machine learning models, or just curious about how AI can recognize objects from your webcam, this one’s for you.

What You'll Learn:
✅ Use a pre-trained model for object detection (beverage)
✅ Train a custom AI model to recognize a new item
✅ Trigger hardware based on detections
✅ Integrate vision and hardware into a complete, real-world DIY project

Codelab:
https://codelabs.viam.com/guide/cv-ch...

✨ Want to WIN A VIAM ROVER? ✨

To celebrate our first livestream of the year, we're giving YOU a chance to win a Viam Rover: https://www.viam.com/resources/rover!

How to enter:
1. Build your own CV self-checkout! Follow the codelab: https://codelabs.viam.com/guide/cv-ch... and train a custom model with your favorite drinks.
2. Take a screenshot of yourself with one of your drinks (with correctly labeled bounding box), share it on social, and tag Viam on X (@ViamRobotics), LinkedIn (Viam Inc.) , or Instagram (@ViamRobotics)! (Make sure you tag Viam so that we can find and count your submission!) Official deadline to submit is April 30, 2025 11:00pm Pacific Time.

We'll choose a winner and announce it here and on our social accounts on May 1, 2025! Happy building!

Viam Documentation:
https://docs.viam.com

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0:00 Introductions and Announcements
3:54 What’s New with Viam? Custom Training Scripts
5:50 Demo of Computer Vision and Drink Detection
8:19 Creating a Machine in Viam
19:02 Creating a Dataset
31:00 Training a Custom ML Model
40:03 Annotating New Images

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