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Facebook is Using Instagram Photos and Hashtags To Improve Its Computer Vision (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on from the of-course-it-is-doing-that dept.

Facebook today revealed that, using 3.5 billion publicly shared Instagram photos and their accompany hashtags, its computer system has achieved new advances, with a 85.4 percent accuracy rate when used on ImageNet, a well-known benchmark dataset. From a report: The results were shared onstage at F8, Facebook's annual developer conference taking place today at McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. Other news announced at F8 this year include the release of Oculus Go, new Facebook Stories sharing capabilities, and the reopening of app and bot reviews following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. See the full rundown here. The results of Facebook's research mean that its computer vision in the real world can see more specific subsets, so instead of just saying "food," it's Indian or Italian cuisine; not just "bird" but a cedar waxwing; not just "man in a white suit" but a clown.

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  1. Copyright violation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm very tempted to bring a lawsuit here. I did not grant permission for this usage.

    1. Re:Copyright violation by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 4, Informative

      You know that little checkbox you have to click after reading two librairies' worth of legalese before you can use these free online services? You agreed to almost every possible usage of your data.

      --
      #DeleteFacebook
  2. Re:Again with FaceBook? by darkain · · Score: 3, Informative

    Whenever a large tech conference happens, there is a burst of posts about that particular company. No different than when Google, Apple, or Microsoft holds major tech conferences. This is the norm of Slashdot and wont change.

  3. Current capabilities by MagicM · · Score: 2

    Facebook's current "vision" capabilities are already pretty impressive. You can right-click any image in your feed and choose "Inspect element", dig down to the element, and look at the "alt" attribute to see what Facebook thinks is in that image. A sampling of my current feed:

    Image may contain: 5 people, people smiling, people standing
    Image may contain: dog
    Image may contain: car and outdoor
    Image may contain: pizza and food
    Image may contain: text

    1. Re:Current capabilities by rogoshen1 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well the manufacturing part is pretty simple and cheap (usually). Maintenance can be an absolute fuckmare depending on child support regulations in your jurisdiction however.

      But on an aside what's the going market rate on off-brand 2 year olds (made in china or india, as those are traditionally far cheaper than western versions)?

      One would think FOSTA/SESTA would have had dramatic effects on price, or is it still too early to tell?