a discord bot that helps users recycle and reuse
I wanted to create something that would help people lead a cleaner and more environment friendly life and I saw that many people struggle at categorising waste so I decided to create a discord bot to tackle this
The user sends an image to the channel named recyclinator and the bot replies with formatted messages of the objects it detects, what they are commonly made up of and how to recycle them or which type of waste they are.
I used discord.py for the discord bot ONNX runtime to run a pytorch model that is trained on the coco image dataset and detects up to 80 classes I used cockroachdb to store all the information about the objects and the bot retrieves them as it detects different objects
I wanted to use tensorflow and train the model on a much larger dataset but Tensorflow kept crashing on my laptop and running out of memory and training on cloud services like google colab would be quicker but it still estimated that it would take a lot of time(hours) So I decided to go with a pre trained model on pytorch that could be run on onnx runtime
This bot has been deployed to Linode which means that anyone can add it to their server and I really hope that this will help someone
How to save and load models in tensorflow and pytorch and onnx
I would like to create a command that would show a user their statistics and other global usage statistics which could be used to refine the bot usage.