MIT team refines image recognition - bit-tech.net Forums

CardJoe · 27th May 2008, 08:55

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/05...-recognition/1

A team at MIT has developed a system capable of searching through a database of 12.9 million images in seconds on a normal desktop PC.

[USRF]Obiwan · 27th May 2008, 09:39

incredible, searching through millions of images in a second? Very impressive.

mashles · 27th May 2008, 10:11

Well i expect the hashing of the pictures would take longer wouldnt it? Once the pictures are all hashed it would be seconds to search the hashes. V impressive though.

Constructacon · 28th May 2008, 01:34

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Torralba coughs to problems recognising complex or unusual shapes via the system, stating that “not all images are created equal.” Common objects – recognising the shape of a person, or a flower or building, for example – seem to be picked up quite easily given a large enough sample set. Torralba believes the research demonstrates that “with very large amounts of images, even relatively simple algorithms are able to perform fairly well.”

So all they need is enough images on any given topic to produce successful results. I see this being extremely useful in a corporate environment as an effective pr0n filter.

Volunteers anyone to be the person to collect the required image sample set?

27th May 2008, 08:55	#1
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[USRF]Obiwan Ultramodder Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Netherlands Posts: 1,220	incredible, searching through millions of images in a second? Very impressive. __________________ Mascleta: "The most accurate simulation of thunder, humans can simulate..." The answer is 42, so... whats the question again? If you know what 'Peek' and 'Poke' represents, then you are probably as old as me.

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mashles Minimodder Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: UK Posts: 20	Well i expect the hashing of the pictures would take longer wouldnt it? Once the pictures are all hashed it would be seconds to search the hashes. V impressive though.