I'm working on a computer vision/machine learning project that could benefit from some guidance. While I have looked for consultancies, and even emailed students or professors that I thought were exceptional, I have had very little luck. Does anyone know where I could find an expert in this field for some consulting work? Thank you.
I have done some recent computer vision work as a consultant and helped get a couple of different algorithms from patent stage to commercially viable products. Shoot me an email (in my profile), if nothing else if I don't know/can't help maybe I can give you some more names/ideas to try.<p>btw -- I don't label myself an expert in computer vision, but I have done a number of implementations of different algorithms and real time processing.<p>Also, have you checked some of the more domain focused forums, like the opencv and nvidia gpu forums? A lot of times people from there will help out or will consult or know of someone who can etc. Last idea is find a local employer that does computer vision work, like a lot of the defense contractors and use your network to find someone that might work there to help you. I have a number of those in my area and used that technique to get a little help on a few issues that I just got stuck on.
Finding experts is indeed tough -- I remember trawling around freelance boards with very bad results. It got a lot better when I discovered premium job boards + done for you services online.<p>Specifically for you, I think this might help: <a href="https://www.codementor.io/computer-vision-experts" rel="nofollow">https://www.codementor.io/computer-vision-experts</a><p>In general, here's how I usually do my googling:
- Initial search: "<keyword> + Done for You Service" || "<keyword> + Consultancy"
- Second Search Run (if technical): "site:codementor.io <keyword>"
- Third Search Run: Go to Clarity.fm and ask some of the folks there for referrals to someone
You could perhaps try Peter Kovesi, he was my Computer Vision professor at the University of Western Australia. His website says he's available for occasional consulting:<p><a href="http://www.peterkovesi.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.peterkovesi.com</a><p><a href="http://www.peterkovesi.com/services.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.peterkovesi.com/services.html</a>
Email the team at shelfie. They rolled their own very complex OCR engine. I bet they know someone.<p>I've had reasonable luck on upwork, but probably not people at the level you need.
Tools like imagemagick and gimp probably have huge image processing followings, bit of a crossover to vision I know but some subset will be interested in the two.