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Automatic Image Tagging

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the on-the-horizon dept.

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."

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  1. Lots of implications for Surveillance, however. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Makes it easier to process all that data generated by all those security cams.

    Is there a "Big Brother" category on Slashdot, yet?