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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. Not shockingly... by goldmeer · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.