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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 /
by ThinkBeat 11y ago
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?
- exhilaration 11y agoMicrosoft owns Corbis, doesn't it? http://www.corbisimages.com http://www.corbisimages.com
- ThinkBeat 11y agoIt 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-79b0e3d20eaf.html 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.