Inspiration
With social distancing and quarantine in place, our primary ways of communication have turned online through video conferencing and other social media platforms. We wanted to help aspiring photographers, and any story teller, in improving their skills in conveying their meaningful ideas and gain more outreach.
What it does
A social media platform tailored to improve the skills of photographers, regardless if they are amateur or professional, through a data-driven AI model that compares and ranks their posts based on past popularity.
How I built it
We used Expo with React Native for the universal mobile application and a neural network hosted on Google Cloud's compute engine that computes an intrinsic rating for given images where popular feedback is then collected using Facebook's graph API.
Challenges I ran into
It took us some time to figure out screen navigation in React Native as it was only our second time developing with it. Deprecation of many open-source libraries and APIs in React Native.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
That we can take pictures and load them in our application's gallery and we connected it to our neural network ranking system.
What I learned
That maintenance on many open-source libraries were left behind since the pandemic and that it was difficult to handle deprecation errors.
What's next for Picturesk
Hosting posted images on the Cloud so that users may see the activity of people worldwide and receive meaningful feedback.
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