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Re: CaptionBot by Microsoft

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Post by soundwave106 »

swalsh wrote: post #38

It is almost as smart as a child. I uploaded a picture of my Notre-Dame vacation photo, and the caption was "A person standing in front of a church"... which is close to my sons "mommy standing in front of that church we went to"

Yep, on the stuff it recognizes. It recognized a picture I tested taken from the Grand Tetons as "a lake with a mountain in the background", which was quite correct, but also kind of generic.

On the other hand, it described a picture of Grand Prismatic Springs in Yellowstone as "a train with smoke coming out of the water." Which also is kind of like the crazy things kids sometimes say when they see something new.

http://imgur.com/JBlpJvQ

Re: CaptionBot by Microsoft

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Post by ThinkBeat »

exhilaration wrote: post #44
ThinkBeat wrote: post #34

Hmm. A couple of days ago I think there was a post about Google doing a lot of development and research around creating systems that understand / categorize / comment / recognize images. One thing I took away from reading about it is that Google has billions of images to train it with from all their different ventures. Does Microsoft have access to anywhere near the same numbers of pictures?

Microsoft owns Corbis, doesn't it? http://www.corbisimages.com

It is my understanding that it was owned by Bill Gates not Microsoft.

Bill Gates sold it earlier this year to a Chinese Company http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d6fbcb88-c126-11e5-846f-79b0e... (paywall),

The Chinese company has structured a deal with Getty to take over licensing outside of China.

However, having access to world class photography is great, but the images that (probably) will be the most interesting for Microsoft to recognize will be selfies, and other "crowd" created amateur photography and possibly memes.

I personally would think it to be cool to see if the bot could traverse the Getty collection and see if it could recognize the photographer of an image it had not seen before. Why yes, this is Leibovitz.

Re: CaptionBot by Microsoft

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Post by aw3c2 »

flatline wrote: post #57

Took a few tries but worth it - my son from the other morning: https://imgur.com/a/w1Uai Edit: They should have named it CationBot.

Are you sure your son is fine with you giving Microsoft his image and accepting all what you permit them by doing so?

Re: CaptionBot by Microsoft

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Post by 1024core »

I worked in Image Processing and Vision for a long time. If you'd asked me 2 years ago that something like this could be possible, I would have laughed you out of the room. But in the last year or so, I've been stunned beyond belief at how well these networks work.

Re: CaptionBot by Microsoft

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Post by emehrkay »

arunitc wrote: post #3

I gave this image - https://i.imwx.com/images/maps/truvu/map_specnewsdct-109_lts... and I got this result "I am not really confident, but I think it's a couple of glass vases with flowers on top of a surfboard."

It loves things being on top of surf boards

http://imgur.com/WWHQu5i

MS has been providing the net with fun activities for a few months now. The other night the celebrity look alike site blew up on twitter and instagram

Re: CaptionBot by Microsoft

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Post by lewiscollard »

swalsh wrote: post #38

It is almost as smart as a child. I uploaded a picture of my Notre-Dame vacation photo, and the caption was "A person standing in front of a church"... which is close to my sons "mommy standing in front of that church we went to"

http://imgur.com/JwidrUy

I get the same "about as smart as a very young child" vibe from CaptionBot; the intersection of pleasantly silly and rather impressive.

(Photo: Rover P6 on the start line with a Nissan R35 GTR, guessed as "I think it's a police car parked in front of a truck.")

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