Seeing the Forest For the Trees

swframe writes "A new object recognition system developed at MIT and UCLA looks for rudimentary visual features shared by multiple examples of the same object. Then it looks for combinations of those features shared by multiple examples, and combinations of those combinations, and so on, until it has assembled a model of the object that resembles a line drawing. Popular Science has a summary of the research. I've been working on something similar and I think this accomplishment looks very promising."

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And here is the link to the paper itself

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Which should have been included into TFA from the start:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/leozhu/paper/RCM10cvpr.pdf
The main achievement claimed is that no image labeling or any additional data like viewport position was needed, the learning process was completely automated.