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Automatic Image Tagging
bignickel writes "Researchers at Penn State have applied for a patent on software that automatically recognizes objects in photos and tags them accordingly. The 'Automatic Linguistic Indexing of Pictures Real-Time' software (catchy name) trained a database using tens of thousands of images, and new images have 15 tags suggested based on comparisons with objects or concepts in the database. Not sure how you identify a 'concept,' and they're only talking about having one correct tag in the top 15, but still cool."
The vast majority of the images on the internets including The Google include "Pornography" in it's top 15 tags suggested. The accuracy rate is surprisingly high.
Researchers at a publicly funded institution are using their research results for personal (financial gain). Pennsylvania's tax dollars at work? How is this legal?
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Now almost 7% of my pr0n will get tagged correctly!
That's cool, the rest of it will be like opening xmas presents!
*file: 123456.jpeg>open>Aghh! Goatse!*
Hmmm...This may be neat when it gets a LITTLE more accurate, but a cool start none the less.
Kudus to the gang for getting a grip on a hard problem...erm..nevermind.
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Reportedly the researchers showed the system a picture of a Death Star, and it correctly tagged the image with 'thatsnomoon'.
The system has clearly been let crawl the web for far too long.
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"cunning linguists
That's disgusting."
Actually, if done well, it's quite pleasant for all involved.
We are all just people.
They might be cunning linguists - but you sure are a master debator.