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An Advance In Image Recognition Software

Posted by kdawson on from the needle-in-a-haystack dept.

Roland Piquepaille alerts us to work by US and Israeli researchers who have developed software that can identify the subject of an image characterized using only 256 to 1024 bits of data. The researchers said this "could lead to great advances in the automated identification of online images and, ultimately, provide a basis for computers to see like humans do." As an example, they've picked up about 13 million images from the Web and stored them in a searchable database of just 600 MB, making it possible to search for similar pictures through millions of images in less than a second on a typical PC. The lead researcher, MIT's Antonio Torralba, will be presenting the research next month at a conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

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  1. There goes the neighborhood by HeavensBlade23 · · Score: 3, Funny

    This will be used to break CAPTCHA-type schemes even worse than they already are.

    1. Re:There goes the neighborhood by dbIII · · Score: 4, Funny

      Looks like I'll have to stop attaching my low bit facial image as a signature.

  2. tests by nawcom · · Score: 1, Funny

    thank god, now i can get some assistance when i'm taking one of those "real tits or fake tits" online quizes. fapfapafap.

  3. Re:Like every other "advance" in image recognition by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 4, Funny

    If I read you correctly - and I think I do... You mean to say that snake oil is somehow... invisible?

    No wonder those snakes are not only so quiet, but I never even see 'em coming!

    Geez. We don't stand a chance.

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    Never been known to fail..."
  4. Search Jenna Jameson? by Bayoudegradeable · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh my, the soon to be most searched "name" on the web is... Jenna Jameson! Wait a minute, I think I misunderstood "facial" recognition...

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  5. Re:Like every other "advance" in image recognition by Yvan256 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or rather... I'll believe it when it sees me!