Recognizing Firearms from Images and Videos in Real-Time with Deep Learning and Computer Vision

Tony Wang
20 min readAug 11, 2019
Sample Pistol Model Output

Author’s Note: This post consists of sections from a technical report I wrote in December 2018. I decided to share my findings in response to the recent accumulation of mass shootings.

TL;DR: I trained ML models that recognize certain firearms in images and videos, sometimes in real-time. Here are some of my results.

FYI, this is a long read, so this is a good place to stop reading.

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Tony Wang

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