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The Wolfram Language Image Identification Project

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Re: The Wolfram Language Image Identification Project

#21
Interesting. Tried out a few pics from my desktop and it got some right and a couple wrong but I could see why in one case (ottoman cushions identified as "containers", probably based on shape).

It would be really cool to see a refined use case for artifacts, i.e. detailed scanning and identification of sculpture by style and origin.

Re: The Wolfram Language Image Identification Project

#24
Interesting.

I gave it a pic of me, and it returned "person" - good.

I gave it a pic of my wife at a White House dinner, and it returned "construction" - a definite "What the heck?". I suppose this could have been a subtle political comment, but whoosh, I don't get it...

I gave it a pic I took of an F22 in a 9g turn (in afterburner) and it returned "afterburner" - surprised me that it ID'ed the aircraft's propulsion regime rather than calling it an aircraft, but nonetheless impressive. How do they get it to key on Mach diamonds?

Bookmarked. I'll check in occasionally to see how it's doing in its ascent to sentience.

Re: The Wolfram Language Image Identification Project

#27
post #13

R, Python and open software applications are going to be a very fierce contender in machine learning, image recognition, data mining and statistics. I wonder if close source is going to compete with the 5000 packages available in R and in the future more and more people are going to be able to improve on the shoulder of giants.

Well, the philosophy for the Wolfram language is different. Basically, their approach seems to be "put everything imaginable in the standard library", which is kinda awesome, actually. Should be more coherent and discoverable.

I like the idea. programming today takes way too much effort wiring up libraries. I wish they would find a way to make it cheaper though.

Re: The Wolfram Language Image Identification Project

#29
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Everything I uploaded resulted in a ridiculously inaccurate response. Here is a much better example of this type of classification engine: http://www.clarifai.com/#demo

Just tried it out with the same pics I used for Wolfram. For one of the previously wrongly identified pics, Clarifai produced better results. For another, it miscategorized it with the same tags as Wolfram.
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