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Google's Latest Machine Vision Breakthrough
mikejuk writes "Google Research recently released details of a Machine Vision technique which might bring high power visual recognition to simple desktops and even mobile computers. It claims to be able to recognize 100,000 different types of object within a photo in a few minutes — and there isn't a deep neural network mentioned. It is another example of the direct 'engineering' approach to implementing AI catching up with the biologically inspired techniques. This particular advance is based on converting the usual mask-based filters to a simpler ordinal computation and using hashing to avoid having to do the computation most of the time. The result of the change to the basic algorithm is a speed-up of around 20,000 times, which is astounding. The method was tested on 100,000 object detectors using over a million filters on multiple resolution scalings of the target image, which were all computed in less than 20 seconds using nothing but a single, multi-core machine with 20GB of RAM."
Can it sort and identify duplicates automagically in my porn collection?
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
-"... using nothing but a single, multi-core machine with 20GB of RAM" Phew.. here i was thinking it'd need some unrealisticalll high specs from my PC!!
my cat can spot a Dentabite bag from across the room in 20 milliseconds, does that mean my cat has 20TB of RAM?
Phase 7 is profits. You obviously assumed phase 6 was "???".
Some years ago, I had an idea for a tool that would, in a nutshell, identify a plant simply from a photo and some metadata (time of year, geolocation, etc). I know how it would work (and it would work), but I came to the conclusion that someone (ie. Google) would use the methods to develop a tool that would do the same thing but for human faces.
It was at that point I decided to leave that box closed.
Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool.
So Captcha's will become even easier to crack? Great, the sooner we can get rid of them, the better. As it is they are getting impossible to read by humans, thanks to idiots who don't know how to design them.
But there's no need to get rid of them if we'll all have a handy browser plugin that can decode them for us at the press of a button!