Tag Everything

As mentioned in the previous post, given any visual information (image, video), it’s still difficult for computers to recognize the object that contained in the information. Although a lot of works have been done in this area, we still have only limited progress. Unfortunately, in the near future, we still can’t be too optimistic about the progress towards the field. But the good news is that we do have an easier solution: tag everything!

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High-level Knowledge on the Web

Let computers “think” like a human being is probably the dream of almost every computer scientist. However, despite extraordinary capability in repetitive computation, computers totally lack the high-level knowledge that human possess. For instance, while a five-year old child can easily understand what the object is given a photo, the image understanding problem is still an open problem in the computer vision community. The same can also be true to many other problems, e.g., translation between two different human languages.

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