{"id":66397,"date":"2014-11-19T08:24:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T08:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=66397"},"modified":"2014-11-19T08:25:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T08:25:06","slug":"google-makes-image-recognition-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=66397","title":{"rendered":"Google makes image recognition advance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\" class=\"introduction\">Scientists at Google have created artificial intelligence software that can describe the contents of photographs far more accurately than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>The software&#8217;s description of pictures was similar to that written by a human.<\/p>\n<p>As well as making it easier to search for images, the software could be used to help blind people understand pictures better, Google said.<\/p>\n<p>Stanford University has also announced a breakthrough in the same field.<\/p>\n<p>The machine-learning software developed by Google used two neural networks &#8211; one which deals with image recognition, the other with natural language processing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"caption full-width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/79104000\/jpg\/_79104937_79104935.jpg\" alt=\"A group of young people playing a game of frisbee\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" \/>Software description: A group of young people playing a game of frisbee<\/div>\n<p>Neural networking is a computational model that mimics some of the same architecture used in the brain. Such systems have a series of interconnected neurons which can take information from a variety of sources and are also capable of learning.<\/p>\n<p>The neural network developed by Google was the work of four scientists &#8211; Oriol Vinyals, Alexander Toshev, Samy Bengio and Dumitru Erhan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A picture may be worth a thousands words,&#8221; they wrote on the Google Research blog.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But sometimes it&#8217;s the words that are the most useful &#8211; so it&#8217;s important we figure out ways to translate from images to words automatically and accurately.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago Google researchers created image-recognition software and showed it 10 million images taken from YouTube videos. After three days the programme had taught itself how to pick out pictures of cats.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Google have created artificial intelligence software that can describe the contents of photographs far more accurately than ever before. The software&#8217;s description of pictures was similar to that written by a human. As well as making it easier to search for images, the software could be used to help blind people understand pictures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":66398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-66397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-akwasi-osei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}