New Algorithms Improve Image Search

bc90021 writes "Electrical engineers from UC San Diego are making progress on an image search engine that analyzes the images themselves. At the core of this Supervised Multiclass Labeling system is a set of simple yet powerful algorithms developed at UCSD. Once you train the system (the 'supervised' part), you can set it loose on a database of unlabeled images. The system calculates the probability that various objects it has been trained to recognize are present, and labels the images accordingly. After labeling, images can be retrieved via keyword searches. Accuracy of the UCSD system has outpaced that of other content-based image labeling and retrieval systems in the literature. One of the co-authors works at Google, where the researchers have access to image collections at the largest of scales."

when I was your age

[Anonymous Coward]

I remember when we had to go to a gas station and *buy* porn. Now you have computers out there finding porn for you. You kids today have it too easy!

so how does this ...

[sarathmenon]

change the way I search for Natalie Portman p0rn?

Does it accually work...

[BurningPi]

...or is it something like this [slashdot.org]?

Re:Cool!

[Cheapy]

I find it disturbing that you combine porn, your daughter, and rabbits all in your post.

You have issues.

The problem is...

[Life700MB]

The problem is we all know what's gonna be the first result when searching "Caves on uranus"!!!

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The tech isn't mature enough yet

[The Orange Mage]

Run this story again when the system can tell the difference between D, DD, and DDD. Bonus points if it can handle "higher" criteria.

Re:Cool!

[Tackhead]

> If this doesn't revolutionize the searching of online porn galleries, I don't know what will. :)
>
> Snarkiness aside, this is pretty cool stuff. I hope to see usable OSS code in a few years. Imagine how cool it would be to query "show me all pics with my daughter and her rabbits" and have it week through the 1000's of digital family photos.

...the coolness of which is directly proportional to hotness of your daughter, the hotness of whom must then be further weighted by multiplying her hotness by some function of her age. The age-multiplier curve features an abrupt discontinuity that jumps 0.00 to 1.00 at age 18, and some sort of exponential backoff function that starts decreasing the multiplier at around age 35-45.

But apart from the fact that it's almost Easter, what's with the rabbits? *clickity clic*-hey, I didn't know you could do that with Cadbury easter creme eggs!

(Rule #34: There is porn of it. No exceptions.)

Re:Probability

[$RANDOMLUSER]

You're not big on quantum superpositioning I take it.

I can take it or leave it.

Re:Cool!

[andphi]

I was going to assume that his daughter is little and likes rabbits because they're cute and fuzzy, or that she's somewhat older and keeps rabbits because they're cute, fuzzy, and more manageable than other animals. But, sadly this is Slashdot, so images that contain girls but aren't pr0n are apparently incomprehensible.

Re:Cool!

[Anonymous Coward]

> But, sadly this is Slashdot, so images that contain girls but aren't pr0n are apparently incomprehensible.

Fortunately, this is Slashdot, so discussions of pr0n that don't feature square-waves, multipliers, and exponential backoff functions are apparently incomprehensible too!

(What are these "girls" of which you speak? I only remember Millie Amp... she was imaginary, skinny as a wire, but when her insulation got stripped, she stopped resisting, got really hot, and started to moan "ohm, ohm, ohm"?)

Re:Cool!

[andphi]

By 'girls', I mean the limiting reagent in human reproduction. As a class of compounds, 'girls' are extremely common but somewhat volatile, so creating bonds with them is sometimes difficult. They are attracted to other similarly elusive compounds. Examples of these attracting compounds include 'Time', 'emotional vulnerability', and 'financial stability'.

Re:Probability

[emlyncorrin]

You're not big on quantum superpositioning I take it.

I can take it or leave it.

I can take it and leave it!

Re:when I was your age

[PPH]

They chose the wrong name. It should have been "Supervised MUlticlass Tagging" or SMUT.