Computers 'Taught' To Search For Photos Based On Their Contents

A new statistical approach that one day could make it easier to search the Internet for photographs has been given a patent. Its accuracy now is being improved with public participation. Called Automatic Linguistic Indexing of Pictures, the system works by teaching computers to recognize the contents of photographs rather than by searching for keywords in the surrounding text, as is done with most current image-retrieval systems.

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