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Image Recognition For Beginners
SME Magazine Singapore
|July 2020
Not long ago, artificial intelligence sounded like a science fiction prophecy of a tech future.
Today machine learning has become a driving force behind technological advancements used by people on a daily basis. Image recognition is one of the most accessible applications of it, and it’s fuelling a visual revolution online.
Machine learning embedded in consumer websites and applications is changing the way visual data is organized and processed. Visual recognition offers exciting opportunities similar to the ones in science fiction movies that made our imagination run wild.
Image recognition has grown so effective because it uses deep learning. This is a machine learning method designed to resemble the way a human brain functions. That’s how computers are taught to recognize visual elements within an image. By noticing emerging patterns and relying on large databases, machines can make sense of images and formulate relevant categories and tags.
From image organization and classification to facial recognition, here are three of the top applications for image recognition in the current consumer landscape.
AUTOMATED IMAGE ORGANIZATION
One of the most popular applications of image recognition that we encounter daily is personal photo organization. Who wouldn’t like to better handle a large library of photo memories according to visual topics, from specific objects to broad landscapes?
This story is from the July 2020 edition of SME Magazine Singapore.
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