From Pixels to Predictions: Object Detection with PyTorch & JAX

Name: From Pixels to Predictions: Object Detection with PyTorch & JAX
Start: 2026-10-13T16:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-10-13T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Old Senate Room

Old Senate Room, Old Senate Room, King’s College, Old Senate Wing, Regent Walk, Aberdeen City, AB24 3SW

GDG on Campus University of Aberdeen - Aberdeen, Scotland

Discover how AI identifies objects using Google's JAX and PyTorch. Learn to use a pretrained OWLv2 detector in Google Colab by uploading images and text prompts. Visualize object predictions with boxes, labels, and confidence scores effortlessly. Perfect for technology enthusiasts looking to explore AI's practical applications without needing to train a model.

Oct 13, 3:00 – 5:00 PM (UTC)

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Explore how AI identifies objects and draws bounding boxes around them.
Discover Google’s JAX and how it connects with PyTorch through torchax.
Run a pretrained Google OWLv2 detector using PyTorch in Google Colab.
Upload your own images and use text prompts to find objects.
Visualize predictions with boxes, labels, and confidence scores no model training required.