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24 alternatives to Using YOLO to Detect Office Chairs in 40M Hotel Photos

I used the YOLO object detection library from Ultralytics to scan over 40 million hotel photos and identify images with office chairs. This helped me create a map showing hotels suitable for remote work. Map: https://www.tripoffice.com/maps Yolo: https://www.ultralytics.com/yolo The whole process was done on a home Mac without the use of any LLMs. It's based on traditional object detection technology.

This project uses YOLO object detection to analyze 40 million hotel photos and identify those containing office chairs, creating a map of hotels suitable for remote work. The analysis was performed on a home Mac using… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    YOLO▲175

    Real-time object detection

    2017 · pjreddie.com · its alternatives →

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    A library for object detection and seamless YOLO model integration in Elixir - poeticoding/yolo_elixir

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    YOLO▲16

    Real-time object detection

    2018 · pjreddie.com · its alternatives →

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    This runs YOLOv8 + bytetrack with Tinygrad detections (depending on user config) are saved and can be sent to the companion iOS app along with a notification, all video processing is done locally, all footage is encrypted before leaving your computer, and the sending notifications + videos part is optional. This uses tinygrad, so it runs well on my apple silicon macs and should be able to run on a lot of hardware (or will be able to when I remove other deps).

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Label images and video for Computer Vision applications - Cartucho/OpenLabeling

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey, just a work related project I made, which could be open sourced :D If you're looking for an example on how to use/fine-tune yolov8, I feel like taking a look at this repo and reading the README could help you get up to speed (also linked some nice refs)! This is actually a full rewrite of a proprietary project I made (and documented on my site) like a year ago, will do some finishing touches (write blog post about it, mark the old version deprecated, record a tutorial on how to set it up on an Ubuntu server, etc, etc) in the following month, but felt like sharing it now, cuz I…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Just a fun hack I did while bored over the weekend. My wife was busy shopping, it got me thinking that can VLMs solve the indoor location problem in a mall? Can I just show a VLM a map and an image and have it doa good enough job locating me? I hacked this P.O.C and it seems to work.

    2025 · arjo129.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Deep AI search for every photo and every frame of video in any folder on macOS - allenv0/SCM

    20d ago · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! Last week, Joe Barrow released CommonForms [1], a set of open models for automatically detecting form fields in PDFs. He trained two models, FFDNet-S and FFDNet-L, on a dataset of 55k documents. You can read more about his approach in the arXiv paper [2]. As someone who's been searching for reliable models to auto-detect form fields (one of the last hard problems in PDF form filling), I was seriously impressed by the quality of these models. I wanted to give them the attention and distribution they deserve, so I created a fully browser-based implementation that handles both detection…

    2025 · commonforms.simplepdf.com · its alternatives →

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    I built a browser-based tool for detecting objects in satellite imagery using vision-language models (VLMs). You draw a polygon on the map and enter a text prompt such as "swimming pools", "oil tanks", or "buses". The system scans the selected area tile-by-tile and returns detections projected back onto the map as GeoJSON. Pipeline: select area and zoom level, split the region into mercantile tiles, run each tile with the prompt through a VLM, convert predicted bounding boxes to geographic coordinates (WGS84), and render the results back on the map. It works reasonably well for distinct…

    Mar 2026 · useful-ai-tools.com · its alternatives →

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    Brainstorm, teach, share with air-drawn visuals on your live video feed.

    2021 · handtracking.io · its alternatives →

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    I was developing/selling this application under Roadometry, but sales are getting slow and I'd prefer to make it available for free. This is a desktop Windows application which can be used for counting road traffic. https://roadometry.com https://www.youtube.com/@roadometry2011 The application uses Multiple Hypothesis Tracking (MHT) combined with Darknet Yolo. I trained the network myself. I have a tool-chain for building a video-based training set including associations, but it's quite complex to use. I never ended up training a network to perform association,…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Your home for data science and AI. The world's leading publication for data science, data analytics, data engineering, machine learning, and artificial intelligence professionals.

    2018 · towardsdatascience.com · its alternatives →

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    YOLObot▲87

    Smart camera app for iOS

    2019 · yolobot.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Mirowl▲96

    Search all your screenshots via a local OCR-powered AI

    Jun 2026 · mirowl.com · its alternatives →

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    I built an MCP server that gives any local LLM real Google search and now vision capabilities - no API keys needed. The latest feature: google_lens_detect uses OpenCV to find objects in an image, crops each one, and sends them to Google Lens for identification. GPT-OSS-120B, a text-only model with zero vision support, correctly identified an NVIDIA DGX Spark and a SanDisk USB drive from a desk photo. Also includes Google Search, News, Shopping, Scholar, Maps, Finance, Weather, Flights, Hotels, Translate, Images, Trends, and more. 17 tools total. Two commands: pip install…

    Feb 2026 · its alternatives →

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    Multi-object trackers in Python. Contribute to adipandas/multi-object-tracker development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    All-you-can-eat image object detection @ fixed monthly price

    2020 · ko-br.com · its alternatives →

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