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Google Announces Image Recognition Advance

Posted by timothy on from the what-does-a-grue-look-like? dept.

Rambo Tribble writes Using machine learning techniques, Google claims to have produced software that can better produce natural-language descriptions of images. This has ramifications for uses such as better image search and for better describing the images for the blind. As the Google people put it, "A picture may be worth a thousand words, but sometimes it's the words that are the most useful ..."

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  1. Re:what would be useful by Morose · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not only is there a program for this, but it's free. It's called VisiPics (http://www.visipics.info/index.php?title=Main_Page). I use it to organize my photo collection. Not only can it do scaling, but it can check other similarity factors as well. Not sure if it scales to millions, but I've used it with 20,000 images before.

    Enjoy.