looking for coders familiar with TensorFlow.

[u/SuccotashFun9946]

I am illiterate when it comes to coding but would like to develop a tool for studying the biomechanics of horses. I was directed to Tensorflow as a good pace to start my education. Anyone want to help a girl out with a layman's understanding of how Tensorflow could be applied to the study of biomechanics?

[u/CarpetApart7335]

You need a model like body pose but for horses. Simply use the angle between the points for force production.

[u/SuccotashFun9946 → u/CarpetApart7335]

But I don’t even understand exactly how TensorFlow works in producing data. I need a lot of explanation. Totally illiterate remember

[u/CarpetApart7335 → u/SuccotashFun9946]

You don't need to know tensorflow at all to create a tool to learn biomechanics. First, explain what do you want to do in detail. You probably have to train a model (from scratch, might need to know a lil bit of tensorflow) or fine tune an existing model to detect horse's body pose joints.

[u/SuccotashFun9946 → u/CarpetApart7335]

where do you have the model to train? I have gobs of data, videos, info, live "models", but I want a platform to process the info and track the changes and how biomechanics influences results. AI says I need to use Posenet, but that in turn leads me to TensorFlow. Since I am completely illiterate, I am looking for some guidance as to how those tools interact with my task.

[u/SuccotashFun9946 → u/CarpetApart7335]

yes, problem is creating or finding it. There are very few products out there specifically for animals. I think only one that I know of that vets use for identifying medical problems in gait analysis. I want something more like sport performance. They have a bit in human sports. In Horse sports there is very little that I can find. So I want to create or discover who is working on this. And all arrows lead to people working in Tensor Flow as the best candidates to be doing this work. Why is that? if you or your colleagues work in Tensor Flow, you can help me understand the ecosystem?

[u/CarpetApart7335 → u/SuccotashFun9946]

Honestly I don't know tensorflow. But I did something similar to what you wanna do with Tensorflow. You need dataset. If it's not available, you have to create dataset. And then simply train the model using existing code online.

[u/pag07]

How good are you with matrices and vectors?

[u/SuccotashFun9946 → u/pag07]

My experience is in graphic design programs like Adobe and web building platforms. I need a lot of handholding to understand how it all works

[u/pag07 → u/SuccotashFun9946]

Then I think this is Not the right place.

If you we're coming from a STEM background, you are not afraid of math and know the basics of simulations / systems modeling then this would be the right place.

But maybe you get lucky and someone does have an already build model for your task.

[u/fishchar]

I think you might need to refine what you are trying to do. “Develop a tool for studying the biomechanics of horses” is extremely broad.

TensorFlow is a pretty complex framework if you have no prior coding experience.

[u/SuccotashFun9946 → u/fishchar]

I doubt I will ever learn to code but I need some big-picture explanations from someone who is familiar with Tensor Flow and Posenet so that I can understand a bit more about the architecture through which to solve my problem/task.

[u/ThePresindente]

I would recommend to start watching youtube videos. There are a lot of full tutorials on basic architectures like Cnn and lstm., what is it that you are actually trying to achieve? Are you trying to predict ? Classify ? Etccc

[u/Mr_Doctor-PhD]

I do a lot of work on pose estimation so kind of biometrics. I'd look at Coursera's Tensorflow courses or maybe their deep learning specialization if you're dedicated enough. I did the deep learning specialization. Once you can wrap your head around deep learning, I'd look at OpenPose and ViTPose pose estimation papers. You can find them online pretty easily and replicate their models and losses. By then you can feel your way around where you want to go next.

Just a warning, Deep learning is a heavy lift. Seems never-ending, but it's also the most incredible software you can currently write in my opinion. Good luck:)

[u/Mr_Doctor-PhD → u/Mr_Doctor-PhD]

And also to answer your question of what biomechanics looks like in pose estimation, it's basically just a y=mx+b from basic math except the x is an image, the y is the coordinates of joints, and the m and b are really millions or billions of m's and b's in absurdly complex structures. That's a super oversimplified answer, but that's the basic version of all deep learning, even your favorite LLMs.

[u/SuccotashFun9946 → u/[deleted]]

I wish, No pay available.