AI to Tackle Image Reading
September 11, 2017
The new frontier in analytics might just be pictures. Known to baffle even the most advanced AI systems, the ability to break pictures into recognizable parts and then use them to derive meaning has been a quest for many for some time. It appears that Disney Research in cahoots with UC Davis believe they are near a breakthrough.
Phys.org quotes Markus Gross, vice president at Disney Research, as saying,
We’ve seen tremendous progress in the ability of computers to detect and categorize objects, to understand scenes and even to write basic captions, but these capabilities have been developed largely by training computer programs with huge numbers of images that have been carefully and laboriously labeled as to their content. As computer vision applications tackle increasingly complex problems, creating these large training data sets has become a serious bottleneck.
A perfect example of the application of this is MIT attempts to use AI to share recipes and nutritional information just by viewing a picture of food. The sky is the limit when it comes to possibilities if Disney and MIT can help AI over the current hump of limitations.
Catherine Lamsfuss, September 11, 2017
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