Context is ev ... well, something, anyway
Friday, March 5, 2010 - 10:42
in Mathematics & Economics
Today, computers can't reliably identify the objects in digital images. But if they could, they could comb through hours of video for the two or three minutes that a viewer might be interested in, or perform web searches where the search term was an image, not a sequence of words. And of course, object recognition is a prerequisite for the kind of home assistance robot that could execute an order like "Bring me the stapler." Now, MIT researchers have found a way to improve object recognition systems by using information about context. If the MIT system thinks it`s identified a chair, for instance, it becomes more confident that the rectangular thing nearby is a table.