Inspiration
Try and describe what R&B is to the person next to you? It's really difficult isn't it?
What it does
Predicts music genre based on album artwork alone.
How we built it
Million Song dataset -> Spotify API -> Clarifai API -> Machine Learning -> Results! <- Machine Learning <- Clarifai<- Google <- User Interface
Challenges we ran into
Tried to build a web app, react is way harder than I remember. Clarifai changing input types Forgetting to install SQL Python3 Reading HDF5 files are farcical
Accomplishments that we're proud of
It works!
What we learned
There is a genre called 'Heavy Christmas' and people are really bad at guessing genre from album artwork.
What's next for s4ML
Going back to our dissertations
