Helper Bot is an artificial intelligence system that can automate some of the tasks you currently have to do manually, like photo classification. Helper Bot looks at your incoming pending photos and grades them for quality. He sorts and color-codes your photos so they are easier for you to approve/deny. You can also configure Helper Bot to send feedback to your users, automatically rotate photos, or even approve and deny photos automatically.
Helper Bot is young and still learning, so bear with him as he becomes better and better at helping you out.
Photo colors
- Green: Helper Bot is confident this is a good ID photo.
- Red: Helper Bot is confident this photo would not be good for identification.
- Orange: Helper Bot isn't sure enough to make a decision.
- Grey: Helper Bot hasn't had a chance to look at this photo yet.
Helper Bot Settings:
- Send Automatic Feedback: Once Helper Bot has graded a photo, he will let the student know what he thinks of the photo. Students who have bad photos will find out quicker, and hopefully be able to fix their photo before a human sees it.
- Allow Automatic Approval: Helper Bot will automatically approve photos it thinks are good, and send an email to the student letting them know their photo was approved.
- Allow Automatic Denial: Helper Bot will automatically deny photos it thinks are bad, and send an email to the student asking them to upload a new photo.
- Allow Automatic Rotation: Helper Bot is able to automatically rotate photos. Photos taken with an iPhone are especially prone to arrive sideways. Helper Bot looks at all four orientations of a photo, and picks which one is the best.
- Allow Automatic Cropping:
You can also customize the confidence of Helper Bot. He gives every photo a score as a decimal between 0 and 1. If a photo's score is above the "Approval Threshold", Helper Bot will mark it as green, and automatically approve it if you allow him to. Likewise, if a photo's score is below the "Denial Threshold", Helper Bot will mark it as red, and automatically deny it if you allow him to. Anything in between the two thresholds will be marked orange. Feel free to customize the score if you think Helper Bot is not as accurate as he should be.
Aspect Ratio:
Helper Bot can't do automatic approval, denial or feedback if a photo doesn't fit your organization's chosen aspect ratio (the default is square). These images will be auto rotated, and classified, but will need to be cropped before being approved. Don't worry, we won't let you approve a photo if it's not cropped properly. We are working on adding the capability to helper bot to automatically crop photos for you, at which point this won't be an issue any more.