AICTE EDUKILLS GOOGLE AI-ML

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 ABSTRACT
The AI/ML internship at Google is a super-strict platform designed to allow the
participants to learn in depth about artificial intelligence and machine learning including but
not limited to use of TensorFlow. Interns undertake different areas of work, including the
theory and practice course that are meant to promote practical application of the knowledge
gained.
Efficiency of the course will be presented by unlocking badges through the Google
Developer Profile successively which means earning proficiency in essential skills like object
detection, image classification and product image search.
By working in real-time with TensorFlow over the course of the internship, the
participant will have the capability of designing and deploying machine learning models
without a problem. They also resort to Google Colab, an online platform that provides an
environment for scientific computing and for writing scientific documents (which is called
Jupyter notebook). This makes experimentation and model development more flexible.
Kapotasteria program structure involves having mentorship meetings, group projects, and
code reviews together with other interns, aiming at a balanced learning experience and skill
building.
These skills are put to good use in the real world during the legal application of AI/ML.
During code reviews and presentations, communication and problem-solving skills are further
seen in action, thus preparing students for real-world workplace scenarios. Technology
employed in the program accurately reflects the industry standards and the emphasis on team
learning enables participants to be trained with skills and knowledge that are highly valued in
the modern AI/ML. At the end of the internship, trainers, with strong knowledge of the basic
approaches to Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, obtain a practical toolkit that helps
them to solve these tasks. It is through the internship program that trainees are well equipped
to handle opportunities in future in the upcoming digital space.
 Table of Contents
S.NO CONTENT

1. Introduction

2. Program neural networks with TensorFlow

3. Get started with object detection

4. Go further with object detection

5. Get started with product image search

6. Go further with product image search

7. Go further with image classification

8. Conclusion

1.INTRODUCTION
 Today's world needs understanding and handling of visual information in almost every field, for
instance: self-driving technology, e-health, e-commerce among others. Computer vision, a branch of
artificial intelligence, involves the capacity of computers to process visual information and has a number
of applications that improve user and business processes.

In this project we will focus on the application of TensorFlow in solving important computer vision
problems namely: object detection, image classification and product search. TensorFlow is a broad open-
source library created by Google that allows the easy integration of advanced solutions into existing
architectures.

Self-driving cars and the pattern recognition technologies require object detection whereas image
classification is useful in enhancing medical images as well as content security. Besides that, visual
product search has also gained importance especially in online shopping where images are used to source
for products instead of written text.

Within the scope of this project, we will consider the methods, algorithms, datasets, and other
relevant components related to the aforementioned tasks. We will demonstrate the application of
TensorFlow in building effective and precise vision systems that are implemented in practice.

2. Program neural networks with TensorFlow

2.1 Introduction to Computer Vision:

 This field focuses on teaching machines to understand and interpret visual data (images, videos).
It allows computers to mimic human vision tasks like recognizing objects, detecting motion, and
understanding scenes. Applications include facial recognition, self-driving cars, medical imaging, and
more.
2.2 Introduction to Convolutions:
Convolution is a mathematical operation essential in image processing. It involves applying
filters to images, which helps in detecting patterns such as edges, textures, and corners. These filters are
small matrices that move across the image, capturing essential features.
2.3 Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs):
CNNs are deep learning models designed specifically for processing and analyzing visual data.
CNNs are composed of layers:
● Convolutional layers- extract features from input images by applying filters (kernels).
● Pooling layers-reduce the dimensionality of the image data, retaining the most important
information.
● Fully connected layers-connect the final features to the output, making predictions like
classification.
CNNs are widely used in image recognition tasks because they efficiently capture hierarchical patterns
in images—starting with simple edges and progressing to complex structures.
2.4 Using CNNs with Larger Datasets:
When working with large datasets, CNNs show exceptional performance but require a lot of
computational power. Key techniques for managing large datasets include:
● Data augmentation: This involves modifying images (e.g., rotating, flipping, or scaling) to
artificially expand the dataset without collecting more data.
● Transfer learning: Involves using pre-trained CNNs and fine-tuning them for specific tasks. This
saves time and computational resources while leveraging the knowledge from previously trained
models.
By employing CNNs and these techniques, developers can handle complex, large-scale visual data,
building systems that achieve high accuracy in image classification, object detection, and more.

3. Get started with object detection

ML Kit is a mobile SDK that brings Google's on-device machine learning expertise to Android
and iOS apps. You can use the powerful yet simple to use Vision and Natural Language APIs to solve
common challenges in your apps or create brand-new user experiences. All are powered by Google's
best-in-class ML models and offered to you at no cost.
ML Kit's APIs all run on-device, allowing for real-time use cases where you want to process a
live camera stream, for example. This also means that the functionality is available offline.
This codelab will walk you through simple steps to add Object Detection and Tracking (ODT) for a
given image into your existing Android app. Please note that this codelab takes some shortcuts to
highlight ML Kit ODT usage.

3.1 Add ML Kit Object Detection and Tracking API to the project

First, there is a Button ( ) at the bottom to:

● bring up the camera app integrated in your device/emulator
● take a photo inside your camera app
● receive the captured image in starter app
● display the image
Try out the Take photo button, follow the prompts to take a photo, accept the photo and observe it
displayed inside the starter app.

fig 3.1 interface of the object fig 3.2 capturing photo in fig 3.3 captured image
detection mobile app starter app

3.2 Add on-device object detection

In this step, you will add the functionality to the starter app to detect objects in images. As you
saw in the previous step, the starter app contains boilerplate code to take photos with the camera app on
the device. There are also 3 preset images in the app that you can try object detection on if you are
running the codelab on an Android emulator.
When you have selected an image, either from the preset images or taking a photo with the
camera app, the boilerplate code decodes that image into a Bitmap instance, shows it on the screen and
calls the runObjectDetection method with the image.
In this step, you will add code to the runObjectDetection method to do object detection!
3.3 Set up and run on-device object detection on an image
There are only 3 simple steps with 3 APIs to set up ML Kit ODT:
● prepare an image: InputImage
● create a detector object: ObjectDetection.getClient(options)
● connect the 2 objects above: process(image)
Step 1: Create an InputImage
Step 2: Create a detector instance
ML Kit follows Builder Design Pattern. You will pass the configuration to the builder, then acquire a
detector from it. There are 3 options to configure (the options in bold are used in this codelab):
● detector mode (single image or stream)
● detection mode (single or multiple object detection)
● classification mode (on or off)
Step 3: Feed image(s) to the detector
Object detection and classification is async processing:
● You send an image to the detector (via process()).
● The Detector works pretty hard on it.
● The Detector reports the result back to you via a callback.
3.4 Post-processing the detection results
In this section, you'll make use of the result into the image:
● draw the bounding box on image
● draw the category name and confidence inside bounding box
3.5 Understand the visualization utilities
● fun drawDetectionResult(bitmap: Bitmap, detectionResults: List<BoxWithText>): Bitmap This
method draws the object detection results in detectionResults on the input bitmap and returns the
modified copy of it.

Here is an example of an output of the drawDetectionResult utility method:

 fig 3.4 result of detection result

3.6 Visualize the ML Kit detection result

Use the visualization utilities to draw the ML Kit object detection result on top of the input
image. Once the app loads, press the Button with the camera icon, point your camera to an object, take a
photo, accept the photo (in Camera App) or you can easily tap any preset images. You should see the
detection results; press the Button again or select another image to repeat a couple of times to experience
the latest ML Kit ODT!

fig 3.5 detection results of a photo

4. Go further with object detection

In this unit, you'll learn how to train a custom object detection model using a set of training
images with TFLite Model Maker, then deploy your model to an Android app using TFLite Task
Library. You will:
● Build an Android app that detects ingredients in images of meals.
● Integrate a TFLite pre-trained object detection model and see the limit of what the model can
detect.
● Train a custom object detection model to detect the ingredients/components of a meal using a
custom dataset called salad and TFLite Model Maker.
● Deploy the custom model to the Android app using TFLite Task Library.

4.1 Object Detection

Object detection is a set of computer vision tasks that can detect and locate objects in a digital
image. Given an image or a video stream, an object detection model can identify which of a known set
of objects might be present, and provide information about their positions within the image.
TensorFlow provides pre-trained, mobile optimized models that can detect common objects,
such as cars, oranges, etc. You can integrate these pre-trained models in your mobile app with just a few
lines of code. However, you may want or need to detect objects in more distinctive or offbeat categories.
That requires collecting your own training images, then training and deploying your own object
detection model.
4.2 TensorFlow Lite
TensorFlow Lite is a cross-platform machine learning library that is optimized for running
machine learning models on edge devices, including Android and iOS mobile devices. TensorFlow Lite
is actually the core engine used inside ML Kit to run machine learning models. There are two
components in the TensorFlow Lite ecosystem that make it easy to train and deploy machine learning
models on mobile devices:
● Model Maker is a Python library that makes it easy to train TensorFlow Lite models using your
own data with just a few lines of code, no machine learning expertise required.
● Task Library is a cross-platform library that makes it easy to deploy TensorFlow Lite models
with just a few lines of code in your mobile apps.
● fun drawDetectionResult(bitmap: Bitmap, detectionResults: List<DetectionResult>): Bitmap
This method draws the object detection results in detectionResults on the input bitmap and
returns the modified copy of it.

Here is an example of an output of the drawDetectionResult utility method.

 fig 4.1 output of the detection result

The TFLite Task Library makes it easy to integrate mobile-optimized machine learning models
into a mobile app. It supports many popular machine learning use cases, including object detection,
image classification, and text classification. You can load the TFLite model and run it with just a few
lines of code.
The starter app is the minimal Android application that:
- Uses either the device camera or available preset images.
- Now contains methods for taking pictures and presenting object detection output.
You will add functionality for object detection within the application by filling out the method
`runObjectDetection()`
The functions are defined as follows:
`runObjectDetection(bitmap: Bitmap)`: It is a function that conducts object detection on an input image.
It uses the object detection algorithm.
Add a Pre-trained Object Detection Model
● Download the Model. The pre-trained TFLite model is EfficientDet-Lite. This model is designed
to be mobile efficient, and it's trained on the COCO 2017 data set.
● Add dependencies
● Configure and Perform Object Detection
● Rendering the Detectors Results
● Train a Custom Object Detection Model
● You will train a custom model to detect meal ingredients using TFLite Model Maker and
Google Colab. The dataset is composed of some labeled images of ingredients like cheese and
baked products.
 fig 4.2 accuracy of the predicted items

Developed an Android application that can detect objects in images, first by a TFLite pretrained
model, then train and deploy the learnt object detection model. You have utilized TFLite Model Maker
for model training and TFLite Task Library for its integration into the application.
 5. Get started with product image search
5.1 Detect objects in images to build a visual product search with ML Kit:Android
Have you seen the Google Lens demo, where you can point your phone camera at an object and
find where you can buy it online? If you want to learn how you can add the same feature to your app,
then this codelab is for you. It is part of a learning pathway that teaches you how to build a product
image search feature into a mobile app.
In this codelab, you will learn the first step to build a product image search feature: how to detect
objects in images and let the user choose the objects they want to search for. You will use ML Kit
Object Detection and Tracking to build this feature.

5.1.1 Import the app into Android Studio

Start by importing the starter app into the Android Studio.
Go to Android Studio, select Import Project (Gradle, Eclipse ADT, etc.) and choose the starter folder
from the source code that you have downloaded earlier.
5.1.2 Add the dependencies for ML Kit Object Detection and Tracking
The ML Kit dependencies allow you to integrate the ML Kit ODT SDK in your app.
Go to the app/build.gradle file of your project and confirm that the dependency is already there:
build.gradle
5.2 Add on-device object detection
In this step, you'll add the functionality to the starter app to detect objects in images. As you saw
in the previous step, the starter app contains boilerplate code to take photos with the camera app on the
device. There are also 3 preset images in the app that you can try object detection on, if you are running
the codelab on an Android emulator.
When you select an image, either from the preset images or by taking a photo with the camera
app, the boilerplate code decodes that image into a Bitmap instance, shows it on the screen and calls the
runObjectDetection method with the image.
In this step, you will add code to the runObjectDetection method to do object detection!
Step 1: Create an InputImage
Step 2: Create a detector instance
Step 3: Feed image(s) to the detector
Object detection and classification is async processing:
● you send an image to detector (via process())
● detector reports the result back to you via a callback
Upon completion, detector notifies you with
1. Total number of objects detected
2. Each detected object is described with
● trackingId: an integer you use to track it cross frames (NOT used in this codelab)
● boundingBox: object's bounding box
● labels: list of label(s) for the detected object (only when classification is enabled)
● text (Get the text of this label including "Fashion Goods", "Food", "Home Goods", "Place",
"Plant")
5.3 Understand the visualization utilities
There is some boilerplate code inside the codelab to help you visualize the detection result. Leverage
these utilities to make our visualization code simple:
● fun drawDetectionResults(results: List<DetectedObject>) This method draws white circles at the
center of each object detected.
● fun setOnObjectClickListener(listener: ((objectImage: Bitmap) -> Unit)) This is a callback to
receive the cropped image that contains only the object that the user has tapped on. You will
send this cropped image to the image search backend in a later codelab to get a visually similar
result. In this codelab, you won't use this method yet.
You should see the detection result; press the Button again or select another image to repeat a couple of
times, and experience the latest ML Kit ODT!

fig 5.1 interface of the product image search app

 6. Go further with product image search
6.1 Call Vision API Product Search backend on Android
Have you seen the Google Lens demo, where you can point your phone camera to an object and
find where you can buy it online? If you want to learn how you can add the same feature to your app,
then this codelab is for you. It is part of a learning pathway that teaches you how to build a product
image search feature into a mobile app.
In this codelab, you will learn how to call a backend built with Vision API Product Search from
a mobile app. This backend can take a query image and search for visually similar products from a
product catalog.
6.2 About Vision API Product Search
Vision API Product Search is a feature in Google Cloud that allows users to search for visually
similar products from a product catalog. Retailers can create products, each containing reference images
that visually describe the product from a set of viewpoints. You can then add these products to product
sets (i.e. product catalog). Currently Vision API Product Search supports the following product
categories: homegoods, apparel, toys, packaged goods, and general.
When users query the product set with their own images, Vision API Product Search applies
machine learning to compare the product in the user's query image with the images in the retailer's
product set, and then returns a ranked list of visually and semantically similar results.
6.3 Handle object selection
6.3.1 Allow users to tap on a detected object to select
Now you'll add code to allow users to select an object from the image and start the product
search. The starter app already has the capability to detect objects in the image. It's possible that there
are multiple objects in the image, or the detected object only occupies a small portion of the image.
Therefore, you need to have the user tap on one of the detected objects to indicate which object they
want to use for product search.
The view that displays the image in the main activity (ObjectDetectorActivity) is actually a
custom view (ImageClickableView) that extends Android OS's default ImageView. It implements some
convenient utility methods, including:
● fun setOnObjectClickListener(listener: ((objectImage: Bitmap) -> Unit)) This is a callback to
receive the cropped image that contains only the object that the user has tapped on. You will
send this cropped image to the product search backend.
 fig 6.1 identifying objects in the photo

The onObjectClickListener is called whenever the user taps on any of the detected objects on the screen.
It receives the cropped image that contains only the selected object.
The code snippet does 3 things:
● Takes the cropped image and serializes it to a PNG file.
● Starts the ProductSearchActivity to execute the product search sequence.
● Includes the cropped image URI in the start-activity intent so that ProductSearchActivity can
retrieve it later to use as the query image.
There are a few things to keep in mind:
● The logic for detecting objects and querying the backend has been split into 2 activities only to
make the codelab easier to understand. It's up to you to decide how to implement them in your
app.
● You need to write the query image into a file and pass the image URI between activities because
the query image can be larger than the 1MB size limit of an Android intent.
● You can store the query image in PNG because it's a lossless format.
6.3.2 Explore the product search backend
Build the product image search backend
This codelab requires a product search backend built with Vision API Product Search. There are
two options to achieve this:
Option 1: Use the demo backend that has been deployed for you
Option 2: Create your own backend by following the Vision API Product Search quickstart

You will come across these concepts when interacting with the product search backend:
● Product Set: A product set is a simple container for a group of products. A product catalog can
be represented as a product set and its products.
● Product: After you have created a product set, you can create products and add them to the
product set.
● Product's Reference Images: They are images containing various views of your products.
Reference images are used to search for visually similar products.
 ● Search for products: Once you have created your product set and the product set has been
indexed, you can query the product set using the Cloud Vision API.
6.3.3 Understand the preset product catalog
The product search demo backend used in this codelab was created using the Vision API Product
Search and a product catalog of about a hundred shoes and dress images. Here are some images from the
catalog:

fig 6.2 products images from the catalog

6.3.4 Call the product search demo backend

You can call the Vision API Product Search directly from a mobile app by setting up a Google
Cloud API key and restricting access to the API key to just your app.
To keep this codelab simple, a proxy endpoint has been set up that allows you to access the demo
backend without worrying about the API key and authentication. It receives the HTTP request from the
mobile app, appends the API key, and forwards the request to the Vision API Product Search backend.
Then the proxy receives the response from the backend and returns it to the mobile app.

6.4 Implement the API client

6.4.1 Understand the product search workflow
Follow this workflow to conduct product search with the backend:

● Encode the query image as a base64 string

● Call the projects.locations.images.annotate endpoint with the query image
● Receive the product image IDs from the previous API call and send them to the
projects.locations.products.referenceImages.get endpoints to get the URIs of the product images
in the search result.
6.5 Implement the API client class
Now you'll implement code to call the product search backend in a dedicated class called
ProductSearchAPIClient. Some boilerplate code has been implemented for you in the starter app:
● class ProductSearchAPIClient: This class is mostly empty now but it has some methods that you
will implement later in this codelab.
● fun convertBitmapToBase64(bitmap: Bitmap): Convert a Bitmap instance into its base64
representation to send to the product search backend
● fun annotateImage(image: Bitmap): Task<List<ProductSearchResult>>: Call the
projects.locations.images.annotate API and parse the response.
● fun fetchReferenceImage(searchResult: ProductSearchResult): Task<ProductSearchResult>:
Call the projects.locations.products.referenceImages.get API and parse the response.
● SearchResult.kt: This file contains several data classes to represent the types returned by the
Vision API Product Search backend.
6.6 Explore the API request and response format
You can find similar products to a given image by passing the image's Google Cloud Storage
URI, web URL, or base64 encoded string to Vision API Product Search. In this codelab, you'll use the
base64 encoded string option, as our query image only exists in the user's device.
Here are some important fields in the product search result object:
● product.name: The unique identifier of a product in the format of
projects/{project-id}/locations/{location-id}/products/{product_id}
● product.score: A value indicating how similar the search result is to the query image. Higher
values mean more similarity.
● product.image: The unique identifier of the reference image of a product in the format of
projects/{project-id}/locations/{location-id}/products/{product_id}/referenceImages/
{image_id}. You will need to send another API request to
projects.locations.products.referenceImages.get to get the URL of this reference image so that it
will display on the screen.
6.7 Get the product reference images
Explore the API request and response format
You'll send a GET HTTP request with an empty request body to the
projects.locations.products.referenceImages.get endpoint to get the URIs of the product images returned
by the product search endpoint.

The reference images of the demo product search backend was set up to have public-read
permission. Therefore, you can easily convert the GCS URI to an HTTP URL and display it on the app
UI. You only need to replace the gs:// prefix with https://storage.googleapis.com/.
6.8 Implement the API call
Next, craft a product search API request and send it to the backend. You'll use Volley and Task
API similarly to the product search API call.
6.9 Connect the two API requests
Go back to annotateImage and modify it to get all the reference images' HTTP URLs before
returning the ProductSearchResult list to its caller.
Once the app loads, tap any preset images, select an detected object, tap the Search button to see
the search results, this time with the product images.

fig 6.3 interface of product image search app after connecting the two APIs

7. Go further with image classification

In the previous codelab you created an app for Android and iOS that used a basic image labeling
model that recognizes several hundred classes of image. It recognized a picture of a flower very
generically – seeing petals, flower, plant, and sky.
To update the app to recognize specific flowers, daisies or roses for example, you'll need a
custom model that's trained on lots of examples of each of the type of flower you want to recognize.
This codelab will not go into the specifics of how a model is built. Instead, you'll learn about the
APIs from TensorFlow Lite Model Maker that make it easy.
7.1 Install and import dependencies
Install TensorFlow Lite Model Maker. You can do this with a pip install. The &> /dev/null at the
end just suppresses the output. Model Maker outputs a lot of stuff that isn't immediately relevant. It's
been suppressed so you can focus on the task at hand.
7.2 Download and Prepare your Data
If your images are organized into folders, and those folders are zipped up, then if you download
the zip and decompress it, you'll automatically get your images labeled based on the folder they're in.
This directory will be referenced as data_path.
This data path can then be loaded into a neural network model for training with TensorFlow Lite
Model Maker's ImageClassifierDataLoader class. Just point it at the folder and you're good to go.
One important element in training models with machine learning is to not use all of your data for
training. Hold back a little to test the model with data it hasn't previously seen. This is easy to do with
the split method of the dataset that comes back from ImageClassifierDataLoader.
7.3 Create the Image Classifier Model
Model Maker abstracts a lot of the specifics of designing the neural network so you don't have to
deal with network design, and things like convolutions, dense, relu, flatten, loss functions and
optimizers.
The model went through 5 epochs – where an epoch is a full cycle of training where the neural
network tries to match the images to their labels. By the time it went through 5 epochs, in around 1
minute, it was 93.85% accurate on the training data. Given that there's 5 classes, a random guess would
be 20% accurate, so that's progress!
7.4 Export the Model
Now that the model is trained, the next step is to export it in the .tflite format that a mobile
application can use. Model maker provides an easy export method that you can use — simply specify
the directory to output to.

For the rest of this lab, I'll be running the app in the iPhone
simulator which should support the build targets from the codelab.
If you want to use your own device, you might need to change the
build target in your project settings to match your iOS version.
Run it and you'll see something like this:
 Note the very generic classifications – petal, flower, sky. The model you created in the previous
codelab was trained to detect 5 varieties of flower, including this one – a daisy.
For the rest of this codelab, you'll look at what it will take to upgrade your app with the custom
model.

fig 7.1 classification of an image

7.5 Update your Code for the Custom Model

1.Open your ViewController.swift file. You may see an error on the ‘import MLKitImageLabeling' at
the top of the file. This is because you removed the generic image labeling libraries when you updated
your pod file.
import MLKitVision
import MLKit
import MLKitImageLabelingCommon
import MLKitImageLabelingCustom

It might be easy to speed read these and think that they're repeating the same code! But it's "Common"
and "Custom" at the end!

2.Next you'll load the custom model that you added in the previous step. Find the getLabels() func.
Beneath the line that reads visionImage.orientation = image.imageOrientation, add these lines:

3.Find the code for specifying the options for the generic ImageLabeler. It's probably giving you an
error since those libraries were removed:
let options = ImageLabelerOptions()
Replace that with this code, to use a CustomImageLabelerOptions, and which specifies the local model:
let options = CustomImageLabelerOptions(localModel: localModel)

...and that's it! Try running your app now! When you try to classify the image it should be more accurate
– and tell you that you're looking at a daisy with high probability!
fig 7.2 showing accuracy of the classification of an image

CONCLUSION
 Undertaking a virtual internship program at Google in the area of AI\ML proved to be a
rewarding experience because it enabled me to explore more about machine learning algorithms, neural
networks and how to optimize models. When using TensorFlow, for instance, I was able to put
theoretical concepts into practice and work on projects such as on [specific project/technology].

The need to adjust to virtual working and to work with big data was a challenge, however, with
my mentor and the team, I managed to deal with it. Teamwork and proper communication were vital in
solving the challenges and completing the projects successfully.

This internship has made me realize how much I like AI/ML and I’m looking forward to
[specific area of interest, e.g., natural language processing]. I appreciate my mentor from Google as well
as the AI/ML team for the guidance provided and the encouragement as it has helped me a great deal.

In conclusion, this internship has improved my technical abilities and raised my desire to pursue
a career in AI and machine learning development.