Tag Images With Your Mind 64
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from the typing-is-hard dept.
from the typing-is-hard dept.
blee37 writes "Researchers at Microsoft have invented a system for tagging images by reading brain scans from an electroencephalograph (EEG). Tagging images is an important task because many images on the web are unlabeled and have no semantic information. This new method allows an appropriate tag to be generated by an AI algorithm interpreting the EEG scan of a person's brain while they view an image. The person need only view the image for as little as 500 ms. Other current methods for generating tags include flat out paying people to do it manually, putting the task on Amazon Mechanical Turk, or using Google Image Labeler."
Oh that what the internet needs more of! (Score:3, Insightful)
no semantic information? Ahem *cough* (Score:3, Insightful)
unlabeled and have no computer-readable semantic information.
There, fixed that for you.
Seriously, the old saying "an image is worth 1,000 words" implies that images frequently have semantic information, at least in the sense that anything on paper can have semantic information. It's just that computers can't parse it, catalog it, search on it, etc. Not well, anyways, not yet. They are getting there though.