[ | Date | | | 2016-04-11 17:21 -0400 | ] |
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Now that Google provides a "Vision API" cloud service, to annotate pictures in several ways. The "label" type seemed especially promising, and I thought I would try it on some of my photographs to see if it did a better job than lazy-me captioning by hand.
The above image, depicting Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois and Jeanne Reynolds giving a press conference under the rain on 2012-06-02, was labeled as follows:
{
"labelAnnotations": [
{
"mid": "/m/07yv9",
"description": "vehicle",
"score": 0.71177125
},
{
"mid": "/m/09g5pq",
"description": "people",
"score": 0.70403248
},
{
"mid": "/m/01hr1w",
"description": "guided missile destroyer",
"score": 0.54956192
}
]
}
It's a good thing that Google's artificial intelligence was able to identify those dangerous terrorists' guided missile destroyer, because I certainly couldn't.
In all seriousness, the auto-labeling feature generally outputs relevant labels, although it sometimes misses things that are obvious to a human observer. In this specific case, note that the AI was only about 50% confident that it had identified a guided missile destroyer; perhaps it's more annoying that it identified a non-existent vehicle with 70% confidence.
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