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Software Combines Thousands of Online Images Into One That Represents Them All
Zothecula writes If you're trying to find out what the common features of tabby cats are, a Google image search will likely yield more results than you'd ever have the time or inclination to look over. New software created at the University of California, Berkeley, however, is designed to make such quests considerably easier. Known as AverageExplorer, it searches out thousands of images of a given subject, then amalgamates them into one composite "average" image.
Can we use it to create an amalgamation of the "average" first post on a /. article?
I dread that the average of all internet photos will be a pornographic picture of a woman with a penis.
I'm sorry to say DHS will be using this technology to determine the "archetypal average terrorist" then use the result for facial recognition. Success! Millions of hits!
At least they can also round up all the evil cats (hint: all of them) with a similar scheme
So this is how a bunch of scientists justified browsing for pron and cat videos all day long? Yes, we heard this before - they are working on average algorithm for images.
pictures of vaginas. Just saying.
I can see the searches now:
"What does a black person look like?"
"What does an Asian person look like?"
"What does someone from Mississippi look like?"
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
With this complex algorithm that takes a fuck-ton of image data and produces for you: something that is almost impossible to tell apart from applying the blur filter on the original image.
Suddently there's a surge in searches for "Average Penis"
...to rule them all?
"I" could have told you comparing all internet cat pics gives you a picture of a nose that looks like mons pubis...!
Here's a link to the actual article, rather than the useless link provided:
http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2014/08/14/average-image-for-big-visual-data/
The video was pretty interesting!
So...what the software demonstrates is that if you line up all the pictures of cats by centering them on their noses, you will CLEARLY see...
The rest is blurry and remarkably uninformative.
There needs to be a LOT more intelligence, either machine or human, applied to this before it is remarkable.
If this software searches out all images of a subject and averages them automatically, that means that there's no human control over which images to use and which to reject. Imagine what would happen if you were to let this program loose to create an average image of Shirley Temple. She started in films at the age of three and reached the age of 85, and the software would create an "average image" by mixing images of her as a small child with ones of her as an elderly woman. Even worse, there's a non-alcoholic cocktail named after her, and pictures of it would almost certainly get included.
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Hint: It's porn.
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It's not online for people to play with? I wanted to see if searching for "penis" will result in screen captures of Spore.
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Yes. That looks about correct.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
Yeah. We have that already.
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Great. Just what we needed. A program that will help us find the common features of the average pussy.
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"Known as AverageExplorer, it searches out thousands of images of a given subject, then amalgamates them into one composite "average" image...
Suddenly the Kim Kardashian selfie book makes total sense.
She's not a narcissist, she's just helping test the beta.
I typed in "douchebag" and it showed me a picture of some guy driving an Audi A4.
How is it that on a story like this I'm the only one making goatse jokes?
What happened to you, Slashdot?
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They must be smarter than the average bear.
Here's what I got when I gave it every pic in my photo library.
But seriously, I've seen the same technique used to discredit a movie of a UFO shot on 8 mm film. If you just watch the movie, you see an elliptical blob flying. Someone scanned the blob from each frame, aligned them, and averaged them. The increased contrast (bit-depth and resolution basically) let you see that the elliptical blob was more a diagonal prism, and that there were dark features underneath it. Basically it was a Cessna with the sun reflecting off the top of the wing.
They've created an algorithm for producing fuzzy blobs!
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I'd like to see one that constructs a 3D model. Perhaps it could use a genetic algorithm (GA) to breed a 3D model that can best represent the most actual specimens of the target object type.
It may be a lot of computations, however, because one is not just running genetic algorithms, but also rotating all the candidate 3D models and lighting conditions to see which best fits the actual specimen images PER GA candidate PER specimen. Perhaps a 3D thumbnail version can be used to for initial placement estimations to be fine-tuned with a fuller model.
Then you got spot and texture variations within specimens. You have to model varying textures, not average them out. But even if it ignores texture & spots to simplify things, a 3D shape model result would be cool.
Table-ized A.I.
Only if "you spin me right round" is playing.
Is it just me or does gizmag look too much like jizzmag for comfort?
"The authors noted that since photography was invented, there have been an estimated 3.5 trillion photos taken, including 10 percent within the past year. Facebook reports 6 billion photo uploads per month on its site, and YouTube gets 72 hours of video uploaded every minute.
I didn't read TFA but looks like they just discovered PCA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_component_analysis