How Learning to Shoot a Rifle Led Me to Build a Custom Computer Vision Scoring System

I wanted to cook venison from scratch, which meant learning to shoot, which meant keeping track of my progress, which meant porting a 2012 OpenCV paper and training a state-of-the-art computer vision model, which meant the dinner took a bit longer than expected.

For months, I spent my Wednesday evenings in a tin tunnel just outside Edinburgh, wearing a ridiculously looking (and equally uncomfortable) jacket.

The floor says DUCK in white paint every five metres, the beams have posters saying 'DUCK' as well, but occasionally I still hit my head, too busy checking the scoring cards.