Beyond the Label: AI Techniques for Healthier Beauty Choices

Material for the "Beyond the Label" workshop, presented at the Grace Hopper Celebration 2024.

This material covers three hands-on exercises:

• Exercise 1: Extract ingredient list text from an image for a beauty product.
• Exercise 2: Preprocess and visualize dataset.
• Exercise 3: Create and use a Text Model for Classification.

It also has an App that demostrates how a real world application puts the concepts explored in these exercises together.

Get Started

To participate in the workshop, you need:

• Laptop
• Google Chrome™ browser
• MathWorks® account

We will provide you with a temporary workshop license. This license gives you access to all products that the workshop uses, as well as workshop exercise files.

Step I. Set Up Your MathWorks Account

A MathWorks account is required to access MATLAB® Online™ and the material for this event. Log in to your MathWorks account or, if you don’t have one, create one here. You will need access to your email on the machine you are using to create the account.

Step II. Activate Workshop License 

The workshop uses MATLAB Online. You must activate the workshop license to participate.

1. Using Google Chrome, navigate to [LINK TBD] . If you are not already logged in to your MathWorks account, do so.
2. Click Access MATLAB Online.

You can activate this license starting from the day of the workshop up to a week after the workshop date.

To run these exercises without workshop license, you will need:

• MATLAB®
• Text Analytics Toolbox™
• Computer Vision Toolbox™

Step III. Access Exercise Files

MATLAB Online will try to automatically port over your workshop files from GitHub. You will see a dialog pop-up for saving and opening the repository of files.

1. Click on the checkbox to accept outside source code.
2. To access the files, click Save and Open.

Step IV. Setup Your Exercises

To set up for the exercises:

1. Click the Open in MATLAB Online button. This should open a MATLAB Online session and add contents of this repo to your MATLAB Online session
2. Open TableOfContents.mlx and run the file

Try Out the Exercises!

We are looking forward to your participation in this workshop!

Beyond the Label Workshop Team