Build a local dashboard for indexing and labeling
Wrap indexing, labeling, threshold tuning and export in one local browser page, and handle the threading traps that come with it.
All guides
Newest first. Filtering and search run in your browser over the whole list, so there is no round trip.
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Teach it what you want with a correction loop
Fit a classifier on frozen embeddings in about a second, correct the cases it is least sure about, and know when to stop.
Every error we hit building this, and the fix
The literal error messages from building a local image search tool, why each happened, and what fixed it.
Find people in your photos without labeling anything
Why CLIP cannot tell people apart, what to use instead, and how clustering discovers everyone in your library with almost no input.
Find anything in your own photo library, offline
A seven-part series on building a private image search tool that learns which photos you actually want.
Search Your Own Photo Library Offline With CLIP, Start to Finish
Index a folder of photos with CLIP and search it by typing what you remember seeing, with no cloud and no API key.
Set up CLIP and index a photo folder offline
Install CLIP, download the weights once, cut the network, and turn a folder of photos into a searchable index.
Search photos by description, and why it plateaus
How a sentence gets compared to a photo with one matrix multiply, how to read the scores, and why text search plateaus.
Why CLIP Finds a Welding Table But Not Your Welding Table
Text search ranks by distance to one fixed point that sits in the wrong place, so fit a boundary on your own labels instead.