u/Aromatic-Dig9997

I have a research project in my lab I get paid for. The main caveat of the situation is that we have a few videos of biological experiments with no labelling, no baseline definition, and no depth maps either. Me and my partners decided to label define objects and contamination zones(eg. test tube rims, pipette tips, tabletop etc) with polygonal masks.

But the problem is that while the mAP will naturally come out to be good, the main purpose of contamination detection is still getting defeated because when the pipette tip comes in contact with the tube rim in the video frame it'll be marked as contamination even if the actual contamination isn't happening. What exactly should I do? How do I solve this? We actually also have a multi view dataset of a similar apparatus that I'm thinking of using cuz I can use techniques like gaussian splatting to make 3d projects of the environment.

Made this website about a year ago, launched a new open source tool for robotics so kinda updated it to just advertise the product, now thinking of updating the design too, any feedbacks would be appreciated.

If someone built a simpler, less complex framework type alternative of ROS2 that still doesn't hide things, would ROS 2 devs use it? What exactly would it take to do so? I use ROS2 but sometimes I just hotwire my code directly instead of relying on ROS. I honestly don't know. Sometimes ROS feels lovely but there are times I feel like this shit just didn't exist.

I'm trying to build a software services agency. I'm pretty good at coding myself and can pretty much make websites, desktop apps, mobile apps, other softwares, even machine learning related stuff but I haven't been able to find any clients.

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I have tried cold emailing potential businesses with shitty websites and stuff but it just doesn't seem to be working out. A question for people with website and service agency businesses, how did you all get a consistent flow of clients?

I've been using ROS for almost about a year now and before this I used to do software dev where I built butt loads of stuff, since I've started using ROS I've realised a lot of ROS tooling is lowkey ancient. I just wanted to know if there are people who'd like new cli tools or frameworks that sort of reduce unnecessary config clutter, reduces the need for colcon build --symlink-install every damn second. And just in general feels more easier.

P.S:- I have built some tooling as of now but it's still in alpha phase and i just kinda want to know if people would even want to use it or not.