2012-02-07
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quote 17:17:37
“ Before we get too overwhelmed by the abilities of modern computer vision it’s worth remembering that everything without overlaid graphics is functionally invisible to those specific algorithms, and what is visible has zero higher perceptual understanding. A pattern has been matched, no more. ”
AUGRE, commenting on Timo Arnall’s Robot Readable World video.
I did wonder how the video would look if the only things present were the computer’s “markup”: the boxes, arrows, and so on, on a field of white or black (or, possibly, with the backgrounds heavily faded). Although it wouldn’t be really how computer vision “sees” the world, it would be a little closer, and more indicative of how little these algorithms really perceive of the world.
