Tag Archives: Image recognition

I spent last week in the US and, as you have to do in the US, I rented a car. I got A Mitsubishi Outlander (didn’t ask for it, I didn’t even know it existed). I was intrigued from the very first time I inserted the reverse to get out …

Generative AI is still making the headlines, even though as I observed in a previous post it is not something that we would normally qualify as “intelligent”.  Sure the results delivered are amazing and may look like the product of intelligence, however, if you know how Generative AI does its …

CAPTCHA: Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. The bold part is what matter in this post. Over the years I got progressively more and more annoyed by CAPTCHA, more and more as they became more and more complicated. Add to this the fact that my …

Clearview AI,  a US company,  has been working on face recognition for several years now. It has harvested publicly available images of faces to train its AI software to recognise faces, like digital fingerprints. A good part of the faces have been harvested from the ones published by each one …

Quite a few years ago a journalist saw a young woman taking a picture in the Golden Bridge Park in San Francisco. He took the GPS position of the place she had been shooting and a week later he went on the Internet searching for photos taken in that place. …

Lately I have posted a few news of using artificial intelligence to create an image out of a sentence, describing what you are expecting to see. Today I stumbled onto yet another (free) software, Midjourney, that can let you do that (you just need to subscribe to their beta version …

When I was a kid it used to be: Mirror mirror on the wall who is the fairest of them all? Time has gone by and now it seems that you can ask (a similar question) Artificial Intelligence to get an assessment on your “beauty”. Go on the Qoves website …

OK, I guess there should be something wrong with me. I was watching a soccer match on my television, Germany vs Italy, and my attention was drawn on the advertisements that were shown around the play field. What puzzled me was that in spite of the game being played in …

Have you ever heard the expression “an image is worth a thousand words”? Indeed, with a single image you can convey som much information that it would take a lot of “prose” to have an equivalent transfer of meaning. Computers (software) on the other hand, has always been pretty good …

Researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina have developed and tested an AI system, based on deep convolutional neural network -dCNN-, on real patients hospitalised with Covid. The system used lung CT scan to rank patients on a severity scale predicting hospitalisation time, the likelihood  of deterioration leading to …