Francis Burnet – AI Engineering Portfolio

A guided portfolio of capstones, live demos, and production-minded AI engineering work across data science, machine learning, and deep learning.

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Intelligent port operations scene with cargo vessels, cranes, and vessel classification overlays

Project

Automating Port Operations

A vessel-classification project built around image understanding, transfer learning, deployment tradeoffs, and live browser demonstration.

Project at a glance

This page presents the vessel classifier, the notebook that produced it, and the saved outputs that support the published result.

Objective

The goal is to classify vessels from images using the published notebook workflow and the saved model comparison outputs.

The final result favors transfer learning, and the page keeps the notebook, evidence, and metrics easy to open from one place.

Notebook and Evidence

Outputs

Transfer learning is the published recommendation.

Model result

The comparison summary records 84.33% held-out accuracy for transfer learning versus 44.30% for the custom CNN.

Final note

The observation text records why transfer learning is preferred and keeps the project decision explicit.