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Computer Scientists Scour Your Holiday Photos
Barence writes "Hundreds of thousands of images on Flickr are being used to teach a program to determine the geographic location of an image, simply by looking at it. The program attempts to mimic the way that humans can deduce the location of an image by searching for visual clues, such as similarities to pictures or locations they have seen previously. In its current state it can guess the location of a photo to within 200km, 16% of the time — extremely accurate given the complexity of the problem."
Dude, that's as accurate as my girlfriends map navigation. *sigh*
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.- Shelley
of the time...
(Not counting those rich bastards who can afford taking a holiday on the ISS).