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Software Combines Thousands of Online Images Into One That Represents Them All

Posted by samzenpus on from the best-representation dept.

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.

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  1. Scientific justification by sinij · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  2. Yay! Average! by Tree131 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Suddently there's a surge in searches for "Average Penis"

  3. Re:Frist psot by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes. That looks about correct.

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    Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
  4. it works! by nblender · · Score: 4, Funny

    I typed in "douchebag" and it showed me a picture of some guy driving an Audi A4.

  5. Re:Automatically means no control by Triklyn · · Score: 1, Funny

    best Ima-drink-agen EVER. combines the vivacity of youth, the wisdom decades, the trials and tribulations, loves and losses of an entire lifetime, with a splash of grenadine. Would definitely drink that in, as it were.

    i'd be more afraid of image searches for rick santorum or prince albert.