nexflatline
nexflatline OP t1_j22fdhy wrote
Reply to comment by gradientpenalty in [D] Protecting your model in a place where models are not intellectual property? by nexflatline
In the long term we do believe our strength is in the data and training, which is very hard to acquire. But, at least at the early stages, we would like to avoid someone reusing our model as it is.
nexflatline OP t1_j21f9w0 wrote
Reply to comment by ed_mercer in [D] Protecting your model in a place where models are not intellectual property? by nexflatline
That is a great idea and it may work. I'll have to check the technical challenges of implementing it, though. Thanks.
nexflatline OP t1_j21e0fn wrote
Reply to comment by solresol in [D] Protecting your model in a place where models are not intellectual property? by nexflatline
That could work. I will consider that possibility, thank you.
nexflatline OP t1_j21dtkg wrote
Reply to comment by Professional-Ebb4970 in [D] Protecting your model in a place where models are not intellectual property? by nexflatline
Private dataset that we acquired and labeled ourselves.
nexflatline OP t1_j1y6xw2 wrote
Reply to comment by AmbulatingGiraffe in [D] Protecting your model in a place where models are not intellectual property? by nexflatline
>if the code is using a python based framework then you might be out of luck
Unfortunately that's the case.
nexflatline OP t1_j1y6woz wrote
Reply to comment by aidenr in [D] Protecting your model in a place where models are not intellectual property? by nexflatline
The dataset is secured, no problems with that, but someone could take the model and use it as it is. Our model is trained and runs on a popular open source framework, which we advertise as a feature since many people are familiar with how well it works already. Our main "product" is the model itself, made by painstakingly labeling hundreds of thousands of videos manually. Unfortunately deep learning models are not considered algorithms here and cannot be patented at the moment. So all we can do is hide it.
nexflatline OP t1_j1xy26j wrote
Reply to comment by lolillini in [D] Protecting your model in a place where models are not intellectual property? by nexflatline
Thank you for the tips. If I may give more details to make the problem clearer: at the moment we already have a cloud architect and the cloud ML system is already up and working. But we are dealing with large amounts of real time video data in high resolution, and that is what makes almost impossible to profit using cloud ML (also the latency is not as good as we expected). For this application we need full-HD video decoding at high frame rates.
The end users are people with no special knowledge of anything computer related and operate all through a mobile application (already done and working). Our idea now is keeping the mobile app, but moving the server locally (a mini-pc installed at the customer location). The problem is that the mini-pc would have the model stored in it and we can't find a way to keep it safe.
nexflatline OP t1_j23hkwn wrote
Reply to comment by PassionatePossum in [D] Protecting your model in a place where models are not intellectual property? by nexflatline
That's exactly the type of suggestion I was looking for, and with real life experience. Thank you. I will look more into it and see how it would work in our situation. Thank you very much.