"Firefighting? What happened?" Meng Fanqi was a little surprised. The version of YOLO he gave was already quite mature.
Even the compatibility of some specific operator operations has been taken into consideration, so there shouldn't be any problems.
After Li Yanhong explained briefly, Meng Fanqi suddenly realized that he had underestimated the limitations of the times on his vision.
According to Li Yanhong’s information, at this stage, Baidu has signed project contracts with some governmental organizations.
For example, at Yanjing's hydrological station, they hope to have more than a dozen or twenty camera equipment equipped with Baidu's latest detection algorithm and Baidu's voice detection technology.
The main desired function is to detect birds and their species in the monitored area in real time, and to store only video footage with birds.
Improve detection accuracy, expand detection scope, subdivide specific species, and provide external functions so that the public can easily retrieve videos of corresponding species of birds to watch.
This project is very small and very difficult. It only needs to collect the corresponding bird data, and it can be done directly using the code provided by Meng Fanqi.
"Mr. Li, tell me, how much did you pay for this project?" Meng Fanqi asked because he didn't know much about the official investment in this area.
"Hahahaha." Li Yanhong laughed heartily, and then replied softly, "About three or four hundred."
"Three or four hundred???" Meng Fanqi couldn't control his volume and exclaimed.
I really dare to collect this money. The code provided by Meng Fanqi can directly do this without any modification. The cost of technology and software is almost zero.
As for manpower, one or two people are most busy for a few days.
The only cost is in the camera equipment, but there are some in the hydrographic station itself.
Even if he doesn't have one, how much would it cost to equip them all with high-definition cameras? It would cost less than 4 to 50 million to equip him with a SLR.
"My imagination is still far from enough..." Meng Fanqi marveled at the profits.
And Li Yanhong was eager to ask about the needs that the government urgently needed but Baidu couldn't fulfill.
This matter was originally just a difficult problem, that is, multi-target tracking of vehicles on the road, and how to determine which vehicles in different frames in the video are the same vehicle.
This is a technical problem that currently has no good solution, and it needs to be developed on the YOLO source code that Meng Fanqi just provided.
This is impossible to achieve with the current whiteness itself, not to mention that many technical staff have gone out to promote products.
With the successful demonstration of some simple projects, the government had other needs and ideas without knowing it.
For example, if you want to automatically record the license plates of speeding vehicles, you need to be able to achieve multi-target tracking, but also intelligently extract the license plates of abnormal vehicles, and perform intelligent text and number recognition on this part.
This again involves the recognition and understanding of text information in a specific area.
At this point, Li Yanhong didn't get a response from Meng Fanqi and thought it was because the mobile phone signal was not good.
"Hello? Hello? Can you hear me?"
"You hear me, I'm waiting for Mr. Li to talk about the difficulties he encountered." Meng Fanqi felt a little strange. Why did Robin Li talk for a long time without mentioning the difficult part? Are Baidu's CEOs so idle now? There is no point in speaking.
"..."
Li Yanhong was speechless on the spot after hearing this, and he was somewhat unsure whether Meng Fanqi's understanding was the same as his own.
"The core is multi-target tracking. Without knowing the number of targets in advance, multiple vehicle targets in the video are detected and marked for trajectory tracking. Different targets have different marks."
Meng Fanqi summarized the most important needs, and Robin Li repeatedly said yes.
"Isn't this quite simple?" Meng Fanqi usually didn't pretend in private, but he still felt a bit burdened in front of the three founders of Mihuyou who had just signed the contract, so he showed off a little.
"Just use the Kalman filter plus the Hungarian algorithm. Based on YOLO, we first extract image features and detection results. The Hungarian algorithm finds the maximum match of the bipartite image, and the Kalman filter controls the trajectory for prediction."
"...Can you write it?" Li Yanhong only knew that Meng Fanqi was good at technical research before, but had not yet experienced his ability to solve such practical problems. "how long will it takes?"
Deep down in his heart, Li Yanhong was a little suspicious. Many people would tell him how to do it, but when it was his turn to actually get started, it was hard to say whether he could solve the problem.
These are completely abilities in two fields. Li Yanhong had no doubt about Meng Fanqi's personal ability and firmly believed that he could solve this problem with a high probability, but he did not expect it to be so fast.
Meng Fanqi blurted out the solution to the problem, just like instinct.
It seems that solving this big problem that has troubled the Baidu technical team for a week or two and made almost 0 progress is as simple and natural as drinking water.
"Two or three days, what's wrong?" In Meng Fanqi's view, it is not difficult to detect the several related task variants. Before rebirth, he was tired of writing similar tasks.
"Um...can you help us develop it?" Robin Li had also heard about Xini and knew that Meng Fanqi had now signed a contract with Google.
It’s just that I don’t know the specific content of the agreement, so speaking at this time feels a bit like forcing someone to do something difficult.
"Conveniently, the basic salary offered to me by Google is not high, and it mainly relies on technology sharing. In fact, it does not prohibit me from going out to start a business privately, but it only gives me the first right to acquire the company that is the core of my business."
Since there is no sky-high signing fee, Google does not impose many restrictions on Meng Fanqi.
If you don’t give me technology, you won’t pay. There are several better platforms than Google in the world.
"Mr. Li, I just said it directly in any way. This face is only for you." Meng Fanqi actually didn't want to take on this task that much.
He can take a commission from everything based on YOLO, so there is no need to help Baidu do it for each request. The right way is to improve Google's recommended advertising algorithm in the next one or two months.
"Oh, time is running out. You also know the government. If you change to another client, I will definitely not bother you." Meng Fanqi said the core method, and Li Yanhong believed that the people in his research institute could do it. out.
But it's hard to say how long it will take and whether there will be any problems during the process. Meng Fanqi may have to be troubled several times in a row.
Since he was not sure, it was definitely better to let this AI genius take action.
"Mr. Li, don't blame me for speaking poorly. The idea has been explained. If I still have to write it, we have to discuss it in business, and that will be an extra price." The cooperation between Meng Fanqi and Robin Li has been quite pleasant so far. , it’s okay to give some ideas and tips, but it’s far from being a waste of time.
"If this is the case, how can you let your work go to waste?" Robin Li will naturally not be stingy when asking for help in an urgent matter. "If it can be completed within a few days, this government project will give you an additional 10% commission."
"It's a deal."
Meng Fanqi didn't expect that it wouldn't be enough if money was given to his face without making money.
