You let newcomers dick around for months with a net on an industrial vision problem? This stuff was solved two decades ago. Why didn’t you just tell them?
Been there. And you’re right.
This wasn't an issue of design. It was an issue of them not making decisions without good information. Trying to throw an fconv network at a task that clearly requires positional invariance (convnet was appropriate). They had never done ml before and didnt know anything about it.
Another one was going crazy with docker, and costed them a good year and a half. Idk why the boss insisted everything be behind docker. and i mean everything. He just thought containers were a selling point