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Originally Posted by rfgilles
Just posted on Facebook. Doesn't move the needle for me until they provide videos or pics of how the software works.
New advances in algorithm and hardware design have supported the emergence of artificial intelligence technologies in applications ranging from self-driving cars to cancer detection at superhuman rates. At HGA we are bringing those innovations to the sports card community. These new technologies work with the inherently objective and quantitative nature of machine grading to usher in a bright future where all cards are graded more fairly and reliably than ever before.
The grading process begins with a cleaning step before a high resolution scan is taken of each face of the card at 3200 DPI. That’s around the equivalent of 90 pictures captured on your smartphone. The high resolution scan is then run through our state-of-the-art automated grading system built from our vast database of annotated image data. Using various image transformations, convolutional operations, and other machine vision techniques, it’s able to extract the key features and measurements from the card image. Our predictive model then computes scores for various card component grades based on the extracted information. We are constantly working to improve our model and to stay on top of all of the new designs and trends from card makers. Once the machine grading is complete, we use two expert human graders to double check the work and ensure our high standards are always met.
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This is all I could think about when reading that post:
