Embedded the first frame with an encoder then arranged in 2d with UMAP

👋 Hiring teams working on 𝗗𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁/𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗔𝗜, 𝗜𝗘, 𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗩—I’m open to full‑time or freelance. DM or rexdouglass@gmail.com

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗶𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀: surfaces the weird, rare, and important—so labeling targets 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘂𝗽 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 and you get 𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻/𝘃𝗮𝗹/𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗽𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘀 without scrubbing terabytes by hand.
𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸: fastdup · UMAP · H.264 metadata
𝗨𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀: anomaly mining, active learning, dataset curation for industrial vision.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 (𝗥𝗜𝗢𝗦 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀):

1. 𝗞𝗲𝘆𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 from 15s clips
2. 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 over H.264 stats (oversample rare quantiles)
3. 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 + 𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 (fastdup)
4. 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗶𝗰𝗸𝘀 per cluster → high‑signal frames
5. 𝗨𝗠𝗔𝗣 visualizations to audit coverage & outliers

📜 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆
This is the POC I built to land an offer at RIOS. I inferred their internal pipeline and automated the whole thing—end-to-end in ~10 days. The work is paused while VC funding sorts itself out, but it was a blast and we were on track to productionize and scale quickly.

🧠 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗱
LLM drafts a scene narrative
LLM proposes label vocabularies
Grounding DINO generates bounding boxes
LLM filters boxes
SAM-2 propagates high-confidence masklets
Distilled YOLO runs at the edge
(Definitions—scene, frame, object instance, masklet—standardize the units.)

Rex W. Douglas PhD Applied Scientist (Remote/Austin)

Looking for full time and freelance projects.

Hoping for somewhere stable. I've never been more productive in my life, but mass layoffs and funding collapses have been endemic.

Rex W. Douglas PhD Applied Scientist (Remote/Austin)

Looking for full time and freelance projects.

Hoping for somewhere stable. I've never been more productive in my life, but mass layoffs and funding collapses have been endemic.

Portfolio: rexdouglass.com
Resume: rexdouglass.com/Douglass2025...

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Please reach out if you ever want to talk shop about the intersection of
-manufacturing
-machine vision
-generative AI
-and automation/robotics