- Jan 8, 2011
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Next at Microsoft - Picture this: Microsoft Research project can interpret, caption photos
If you’re surfing the web and you come across a photo of the Mariners’ Felix Hernandez on the pitchers’ mound at Safeco Field, chances are you’ll quickly interpret that you are looking at a picture of a baseball player on a field preparing to throw a pitch.
Now, there is technology that can do that, too.
Microsoft researchers are at the forefront of developing technology that can automatically identify the objects in a picture, interpret what is going on and write an accurate caption explaining it.
That’s an important tool in and of itself. But the ability for a machine to correctly describe what’s going on in a photo also has broader implications for helping Microsoft advance its overall work in the field of artificial intelligence, or the development of systems that can see, hear, speak and even understand.
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Read more - http://blogs.microsoft.com/next/201...esearch-project-can-interpret-caption-photos/
If you’re surfing the web and you come across a photo of the Mariners’ Felix Hernandez on the pitchers’ mound at Safeco Field, chances are you’ll quickly interpret that you are looking at a picture of a baseball player on a field preparing to throw a pitch.
Now, there is technology that can do that, too.
Microsoft researchers are at the forefront of developing technology that can automatically identify the objects in a picture, interpret what is going on and write an accurate caption explaining it.
That’s an important tool in and of itself. But the ability for a machine to correctly describe what’s going on in a photo also has broader implications for helping Microsoft advance its overall work in the field of artificial intelligence, or the development of systems that can see, hear, speak and even understand.
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Read more - http://blogs.microsoft.com/next/201...esearch-project-can-interpret-caption-photos/
