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08-25-2016, 07:53 PM
Facebook's getting better at identifying photos, and it wants your help
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The world's largest social network is getting better at learning about your photographs, but it still needs humans to help it improve.
Facebook an**unced Thursday that it will make its computer vision research available to anyone who wants it, ideally creating a brainstorm that advances the tech**logy that can automatically identify objects in a photograph.*
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"We're making the code for*DeepMask+SharpMask (https://github.com/facebookresearch/deepmask)*as well as*MultiPathNet* (https://github.com/facebookresearch/multipathnet)— along with our research papers and*demos (https://www.facebook.com/aidemos/)*related to them — open and accessible to all, with the hope that they'll help rapidly advance the field of machine vision," Facebook research scientist Piotr Dollar wrote in a blog post. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/25/facebook-photo-segmentation-open-source/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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The world's largest social network is getting better at learning about your photographs, but it still needs humans to help it improve.
Facebook an**unced Thursday that it will make its computer vision research available to anyone who wants it, ideally creating a brainstorm that advances the tech**logy that can automatically identify objects in a photograph.*
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"We're making the code for*DeepMask+SharpMask (https://github.com/facebookresearch/deepmask)*as well as*MultiPathNet* (https://github.com/facebookresearch/multipathnet)— along with our research papers and*demos (https://www.facebook.com/aidemos/)*related to them — open and accessible to all, with the hope that they'll help rapidly advance the field of machine vision," Facebook research scientist Piotr Dollar wrote in a blog post. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/25/facebook-photo-segmentation-open-source/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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