Computer program can identify sketches

Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 07:32 in Mathematics & Economics

(Phys.org)—Computers are good at speed, numbers, and massive amounts of data, but understanding the content of a simple drawing is more difficult. Researchers at Brown and the Technical University of Berlin have produced a computer application that can identify simple abstract sketches of objects  almost as often (56 percent of the time) as human viewers (73 percent).

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