Google's Latest Object Recognition Technology, Can Spot Everything in Your Living Room

Automatic Object Recognition in Images is Currently Tricky. Even if a Computer has the Help of Smart Algorithms and Human Assistants, it May Not Catch Everything in a Given Scene. Google Might Change that Soon, though; it just Detailed a New Detection System that Can Easily Spot Lots of Objects in a Scene, Even if they're Partly Obscured. The Key is a Neural Network that Can Rapidly Refine the Criteria it's Looking for, Without Requiring a Lot of Extra Computing Power. The Result is a Far Deeper Scanning System that, Can Both Identify More Objects and Make Better Guesses -- it Can Spot Tons of Items in a Living Room, including (According to Google's Odd Example) a Flying Cat. The Technology is still Young but, the Internet Giant Sees its Recognition Breakthrough Helping Everything from Image Searches through to Self-Driving Cars. Don't be Surprised if it Gets Much Easier to Look for Things Online Using Only Vaguest of Terms.




Info Sources:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/18/computer-eyesight-gets-a-lot-more-accurate

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2014/09/building-deeper-understanding-of-images.html

http://gigaom.com/2014/09/05/google-explains-its-latest-gains-in-computer-vision