Researchers develop new image-recognition software

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Question: What do you see in the red circles A bottle a cell phone a person a shoe The answer: Theyre all the same. Professor Antonio Torralba created these low-resolution images in which the circled shapes were inserted and are all identical to demo ...
Question: What do you see in the red circles? A bottle, a cell phone, a person, a shoe? The answer: They're all the same. Professor Antonio Torralba created these low-resolution images, in which the circled shapes were inserted and are all identical, to demonstrate how context affects our recognition of objects. Even the 'car' in the lower left image is the same object. Photo / Antonio Torralba

It takes surprisingly few pixels of information to be able to identify the subject of an image, a team led by an MIT researcher has found. The discovery could lead to great advances in the automated identification of online images and, ultimately, provide a basis for computers to see like humans do.


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