{
  "id": 38261,
  "title": "Using Metadata with CNNs",
  "url": "/competitions/carvana-image-masking-challenge/discussion/38261",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2017-08-17T20:44:14.490317100Z",
  "votes": 7,
  "comment_count": 9,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Has anyone tried combining the metadata features with the image data? Was it hard to do? Any improvements of your model?</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "214684",
      "postDate": "08/17/2017 20:44:14",
      "content": "<p>Has anyone tried combining the metadata features with the image data? Was it hard to do? Any improvements of your model?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Has anyone tried combining the metadata features with the image data? Was it hard to do? Any improvements of your model?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "214790",
      "postDate": "08/18/2017 09:57:14",
      "content": "<p>As far as I know - main reason for LB 99.7 instead of 99.9 is  Error in the masks and shadows\nDo not think that either of those could be fixed via metadata</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "As far as I know - main reason for LB 99.7 instead of 99.9 is  Error in the masks and shadows\nDo not think that either of those could be fixed via metadata",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "214807",
      "postDate": "08/18/2017 11:10:31",
      "content": "<p>how have you came up to this conclusion? I mean LB is close to CV. If you fix train masks and retrain CCN and compare train scores -  they have still the same order.  </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "how have you came up to this conclusion? I mean LB is close to CV. If you fix train masks and retrain CCN and compare train scores -  they have still the same order.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "214895",
      "postDate": "08/18/2017 17:38:29",
      "content": "<p>I have no delusions that 0.999 is reachable, but I thought that extra information could be useful for going from, say, 0.9981 to 0.9982. Seeing that the top of the leaderboard is starting to saturate with really high scores, I thought this might be one of the possible extra pieces of data worth exploring. And since local validation seems to be fairly reliable in this competition, I thought people might be able to tell if the metafeatures are helpful.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I have no delusions that 0.999 is reachable, but I thought that extra information could be useful for going from, say, 0.9981 to 0.9982. Seeing that the top of the leaderboard is starting to saturate with really high scores, I thought this might be one of the possible extra pieces of data worth exploring. And since local validation seems to be fairly reliable in this competition, I thought people might be able to tell if the metafeatures are helpful.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "214919",
      "postDate": "08/18/2017 19:25:01",
      "content": "<p>I have 0.996 LB score and when I look at my validation test outputs, it becomes obvious that there is a lot of room for improvement. I think 0.999 is reachable. There is not that much noise in the train masks.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I have 0.996 LB score and when I look at my validation test outputs, it becomes obvious that there is a lot of room for improvement. I think 0.999 is reachable. There is not that much noise in the train masks.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "214947",
      "postDate": "08/18/2017 21:12:30",
      "content": "<p>There is a thread with corrupted masks from train set - you cans estimate its proportion based on this</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "There is a thread with corrupted masks from train set - you cans estimate its proportion based on this",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "214961",
      "postDate": "08/18/2017 23:43:47",
      "content": "<p>What are the metadata features?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "What are the metadata features?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "214984",
      "postDate": "08/19/2017 03:28:07",
      "content": "<p>Yeah, probably no more than 100 images with less than 1% mistake in average. I might be wrong though.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Yeah, probably no more than 100 images with less than 1% mistake in average. I might be wrong though.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "215008",
      "postDate": "08/19/2017 07:19:51",
      "content": "<p>There is about a 100 images with mistakes bog enough to notice it from the first glance - there are much more smaller mistakes and we are already struggling for 0.25% from the total \nSo it could be the case</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "There is about a 100 images with mistakes bog enough to notice it from the first glance - there are much more smaller mistakes and we are already struggling for 0.25% from the total \nSo it could be the case",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "215046",
      "postDate": "08/19/2017 11:46:43",
      "content": "<p>Hi @Bojan Tunguz</p>\n\n<p>I have been thinking about using Concat or Merge of keras to incorporate the \"differences between consecutive image\", is this what you meant by extra information?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi @Bojan Tunguz\n\nI have been thinking about using Concat or Merge of keras to incorporate the \"differences between consecutive image\", is this what you meant by extra information?",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 214790,
      "author_name": "venheads",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "08/18/2017 09:57:14",
      "content": "<p>As far as I know - main reason for LB 99.7 instead of 99.9 is  Error in the masks and shadows\nDo not think that either of those could be fixed via metadata</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 214807,
          "author_name": "heyt0ny",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "08/18/2017 11:10:31",
          "content": "<p>how have you came up to this conclusion? I mean LB is close to CV. If you fix train masks and retrain CCN and compare train scores -  they have still the same order.  </p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 214919,
          "author_name": "harungunaydin",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "08/18/2017 19:25:01",
          "content": "<p>I have 0.996 LB score and when I look at my validation test outputs, it becomes obvious that there is a lot of room for improvement. I think 0.999 is reachable. There is not that much noise in the train masks.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 214947,
          "author_name": "venheads",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "08/18/2017 21:12:30",
          "content": "<p>There is a thread with corrupted masks from train set - you cans estimate its proportion based on this</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 214984,
          "author_name": "harungunaydin",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "08/19/2017 03:28:07",
          "content": "<p>Yeah, probably no more than 100 images with less than 1% mistake in average. I might be wrong though.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 215008,
          "author_name": "venheads",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "08/19/2017 07:19:51",
          "content": "<p>There is about a 100 images with mistakes bog enough to notice it from the first glance - there are much more smaller mistakes and we are already struggling for 0.25% from the total \nSo it could be the case</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 214895,
      "author_name": "tunguz",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "08/18/2017 17:38:29",
      "content": "<p>I have no delusions that 0.999 is reachable, but I thought that extra information could be useful for going from, say, 0.9981 to 0.9982. Seeing that the top of the leaderboard is starting to saturate with really high scores, I thought this might be one of the possible extra pieces of data worth exploring. And since local validation seems to be fairly reliable in this competition, I thought people might be able to tell if the metafeatures are helpful.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 215046,
          "author_name": "janpreets",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "08/19/2017 11:46:43",
          "content": "<p>Hi @Bojan Tunguz</p>\n\n<p>I have been thinking about using Concat or Merge of keras to incorporate the \"differences between consecutive image\", is this what you meant by extra information?</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 214961,
      "author_name": "xiaokangwang",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "08/18/2017 23:43:47",
      "content": "<p>What are the metadata features?</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
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    "214684": "Has anyone tried combining the metadata features with the image data? Was it hard to do? Any improvements of your model?",
    "214790": "As far as I know - main reason for LB 99.7 instead of 99.9 is  Error in the masks and shadows\nDo not think that either of those could be fixed via metadata",
    "214807": "how have you came up to this conclusion? I mean LB is close to CV. If you fix train masks and retrain CCN and compare train scores -  they have still the same order.",
    "214895": "I have no delusions that 0.999 is reachable, but I thought that extra information could be useful for going from, say, 0.9981 to 0.9982. Seeing that the top of the leaderboard is starting to saturate with really high scores, I thought this might be one of the possible extra pieces of data worth exploring. And since local validation seems to be fairly reliable in this competition, I thought people might be able to tell if the metafeatures are helpful.",
    "214919": "I have 0.996 LB score and when I look at my validation test outputs, it becomes obvious that there is a lot of room for improvement. I think 0.999 is reachable. There is not that much noise in the train masks.",
    "214947": "There is a thread with corrupted masks from train set - you cans estimate its proportion based on this",
    "214961": "What are the metadata features?",
    "214984": "Yeah, probably no more than 100 images with less than 1% mistake in average. I might be wrong though.",
    "215008": "There is about a 100 images with mistakes bog enough to notice it from the first glance - there are much more smaller mistakes and we are already struggling for 0.25% from the total \nSo it could be the case",
    "215046": "Hi @Bojan Tunguz\n\nI have been thinking about using Concat or Merge of keras to incorporate the \"differences between consecutive image\", is this what you meant by extra information?"
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