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


- **Date:** Friday, Jul 11, 2025
- **Time:** 13:40–14:10 (30 min)
- **Room:** Stage 7
- **Event:** World Congress 2025
- **Tags:** ai, frontend, javascript, machine learning, playwright

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1626-is-it-f-ake-image-classification-with-tensorflow-js)

## Description

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.

## Speaker

### [Carly Richmond](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@carly-richmond)

Developer Advocate & Manager @ Elastic


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- [The Cake Is a Lie... And So Is Your Login’s Accessibility](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/784-the-cake-is-a-lie) — Ramona Schwering
- [Unveiling the Magic: Scaling Large Language Models to Serve Millions](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/907-unveiling-the-magic) — Patrick Koss
- [The 2025 State of JavaScript Testing](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/686-the-2025-state-of) — Daniel Afonso