Reason for Building:

The entire hobby of cars can be quite daunting to get into - there are so many different types of cars! As someone who is interested in cars but fairly new, I wanted to build an app that would help people identify the car they just saw through a simple picture, then save it to their collection.

Project Overview:

This application caters to car enthusiasts who enjoy recording their street-level car sightings. It features an authentication system built with FireAuth and utilizes a Firebase/Firestore-hosted database. Additionally, the app incorporates a CoreML model capable of identifying 431 different car models.

Key Features:

• User login with FireAuth keeping data unique to each user
• User data saved in the cloud using Firestore
• Car Classification that can distinguish between 100s of cars
• Extra features for ranking your cars such as rating and favouriting features

Challenges:

1. Working with an older classification data set and incorporating CoreML into the app
2. Image formatting and taking an image from the camera rollImage
3. Building a backend with Firebase for the first time