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How we're teaching computers to understand pictures

Fei-Fei Li · TED

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About

When a very young child looks at a picture, she can identify simple elements: "cat," "book," "chair." Now, computers are getting smart enough to do that too. What's next? In a thrilling talk, computer vision expert Fei-Fei Li describes the state of the art -- including the database of 15 million photos her team built to "teach" a computer to understand pictures -- and the key insights yet to come.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED2015
Speaker
Fei-Fei Li
Year
2015
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Computer science, Teaching and learning
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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