Is it (F)ake?! Image Classification with TensorFlow.js

Like me, do you have a love of baking shows? Is there a particular one you like where you need to identify the cake from a lineup of similar items? As much as I love watching baking shows, I struggle to pick out the cake. Leading me to wonder if I could build a model to better find the cakes for me.

Historically the Machine Learning ecosystem has been dominated by Python. While I’m happy to script in Python, as a frontend engineer my happy place language is JavaScript. Thankfully, I can use Playwright and JavaScript to extract images for classifying, and TensorFlow.js to try and classify images.

Join me, a very much not Machine Learning expert, as I attempt to use pre-existing models to find the cake. I’ll also try to build my own image classification model, and use it in a simple web app to see if we can find the cake better than a machine learning model.