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Ask HN: How to find freelance computer vision experts?

by manglav on 2/22/16, 6:53 PM with 7 comments

I'm working on a computer vision/machine learning project that could benefit from some guidance. While I have looked for consultancies, and even emailed students or professors that I thought were exceptional, I have had very little luck. Does anyone know where I could find an expert in this field for some consulting work? Thank you.

  • by davismwfl on 2/22/16, 7:15 PM

    I have done some recent computer vision work as a consultant and helped get a couple of different algorithms from patent stage to commercially viable products. Shoot me an email (in my profile), if nothing else if I don't know/can't help maybe I can give you some more names/ideas to try.

    btw -- I don't label myself an expert in computer vision, but I have done a number of implementations of different algorithms and real time processing.

    Also, have you checked some of the more domain focused forums, like the opencv and nvidia gpu forums? A lot of times people from there will help out or will consult or know of someone who can etc. Last idea is find a local employer that does computer vision work, like a lot of the defense contractors and use your network to find someone that might work there to help you. I have a number of those in my area and used that technique to get a little help on a few issues that I just got stuck on.

  • by kennyfrc on 2/23/16, 3:19 AM

    Finding experts is indeed tough -- I remember trawling around freelance boards with very bad results. It got a lot better when I discovered premium job boards + done for you services online.

    Specifically for you, I think this might help: https://www.codementor.io/computer-vision-experts

    In general, here's how I usually do my googling: - Initial search: "<keyword> + Done for You Service" || "<keyword> + Consultancy" - Second Search Run (if technical): "site:codementor.io <keyword>" - Third Search Run: Go to Clarity.fm and ask some of the folks there for referrals to someone

  • by SyneRyder on 2/22/16, 9:10 PM

    You could perhaps try Peter Kovesi, he was my Computer Vision professor at the University of Western Australia. His website says he's available for occasional consulting:

    http://www.peterkovesi.com

    http://www.peterkovesi.com/services.html

  • by staticautomatic on 2/22/16, 7:04 PM

    Email the team at shelfie. They rolled their own very complex OCR engine. I bet they know someone.

    I've had reasonable luck on upwork, but probably not people at the level you need.

  • by wingerlang on 2/23/16, 7:29 AM

    Maybe you should send a request to the "magic" service.

  • by wprapido on 2/23/16, 8:45 PM

    www.toptal.com is the place where you can hire developers capable of doing more than CRUD web apps

  • by yarper on 2/22/16, 10:09 PM

    Tools like imagemagick and gimp probably have huge image processing followings, bit of a crossover to vision I know but some subset will be interested in the two.