On the other hand, applying computer vision to projects such as these are really good practice. Today’s tutorial is inspired by a post I saw a few weeks back on /r/computervision asking how to recognize digits in an image containing a thermostat identical to the one at the top of this post.Īs Reddit users were quick to point out, utilizing computer vision to recognize digits on a thermostat tends to overcomplicate the problem - a simple data logging thermometer would give much more reliable results with a fraction of the effort.
