Where the Training Data Comes From
The dataset determines the failure modes. Collecting it lawfully, composing it deliberately, and the questions to ask a vendor about theirs.
Procedure
Building and evaluating
Camera placement is the highest-return investment and appears in no vendor proposal. Plus the evaluation that means something and the threshold decision that is a business call, not a setting.
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Evaluating It Properly
An evaluation that means something needs independent ground truth, a held-out set, and reporting by condition and by subgroup.
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Choosing the Operating Point
The threshold is a business decision disguised as a technical setting, and it is usually left at a default nobody chose.
Procedure
Human Review That Works
Human oversight is the standard mitigation and is frequently designed in a way that guarantees rubber-stamping. What makes it real.
Analysis
Monitoring the System in Production
A vision system fails quietly. What to instrument so that a degradation is visible before someone notices the alerts stopped meaning anything.
Procedure
Buying One
The questions that separate a product you can assess from one you cannot, and the answers that should end a conversation.
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Running a Pilot That Can Fail
A pilot designed to succeed is a procurement exercise. What to fix in advance so the result means something.
Procedure
Camera Placement
The highest-return investment in most deployments, the one absent from every vendor proposal, and the one no software fixes.
Procedure
When the Training Data Is People
Building a model that sees people means collecting images of people. The obligations that attach, and the practices that avoid most of them.
Analysis