Researchers teach computers how to name images by 'thinking'

Some Penn State researches have "taught" a computer to identify images with a 330 word vocabulary. By creating words from an image, whole image collections can easily be searchable without the need to manually tag each image. The software seems to work pretty well already, but will obviously need to get a little more "education"!

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"By inputting tens of thousands of images, we have trained computers to recognize certain objects and concepts and automatically annotate those new or unseen images," Wang said. "More than half the time, the computer's first tag out of the top 15 tags is correct."

In addition, for 98 percent of images tested, the system has provided at least one correct annotation in the top 15 selected words. The system, which completes the annotation in about 1.4 seconds, also can be applied to other domains such as art collections, satellite imaging and pathology slides, Wang said."

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