What breed is your pet?

This tiny (wait for it…) pet project is a straightforward rehash of one of the first examples explained in the fast.ai deep learning course. I rebuilt it from beginning to end as an exercise, mostly to convince myself how simple it is to create and publish an image classifier. Just provide a picture and it will spit out the breed and confidence of its guess. Be patient, the API might take a few seconds to wake up the first time. The pictures are of course stored nowhere.

Note that the underlying model was trained on only 37 breeds of cats 🐱 and dogs 🐶. The performance is far from the state of the art so do not expect ChatGPT-like capabilities. Golden retrievers were for example not in the training dataset, meaning the model will get those wrong all the time.

For more details, I did a write-up of how I created this on Medium.