I haven't looked back since, the captioning is fast and accurate, the community is awesome, and I love being able to self-host it.
Who I Am
I'm Chief Scientific Officer at a Portuguese Software Development company.
What I Do
I've been interested in building niche systems for as long as I've been professionally active. I started with real-time solutions geared towards lawyers and the IP sector in general.
Why Moondream
I initially chose Moondream because it was "marketed" to run on edge-devices, but even after putting it against much heavier models, it was simply better at what I needed.
My Use Case
A semantic search system for company logos. Moondream's job here is to generate rich texts about image contents, over which I run custom keyword extractor (with a BERT-based model and NLTK Wordnet for ranking) to propose a handful of relevant semantic labels for the image.
My Story
I've been interested in building niche systems for as long as I've been professionally active. I started with real-time solutions geared towards lawyers and the IP sector in general, and while that remains my main venue, I've also proposed ways to improve gamified exercise for physical rehabilitation in the elderly, and most recently started exploring complex image processing pipelines for use-cases in archaeology.