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Teaching Computers to See with Games

Posted by timothy on from the playing-doctor dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has a story on Peekaboom, a two-player on-line game in which one player tries to get the other player to guess a word associated with an image, by revealing parts of the image one click at a time. From the article, "The process of revealing objects, or highlighting images within the larger context of the photo, is the sort of thing that researchers in computer vision must do to teach computers to see.""

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  1. [OT] I say it without fearing to be modded down. by ceeam · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Fix the damn moderation system!
    No posts at 4+ for a long long time.
    I am not gonna read /. without mod points at low thresholds.
    If you want to vote for it - reply below.

  2. Other people... by darken9999 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This would be great if people on the internet weren't retarded. I bet when I click over to Fark, this is on there. Maybe Bill Gates bringing computers to the masses wasn't such a bright idea.

  3. Re:Think of the possibilities! by master_p · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    mod the parent up! for Christ's sake!