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What’s In A Picture? The Descriptive Camera Will Tell You

http://singularityhub.com/2012/04/28/whats-in-a-picture-the-descriptive-camera-will-tell-you/ The Descriptive Camera may be a student project, but photo metadata is big business. What if a camera could not only take a picture but describe the scene, identify objects, and list the names of people within it? The artificial intelligence necessary to perform such a feat may seem to be a distant reality but a communications project by a New York University grad student has ignited interest using a clever workaround. Matt Richardson’s creation is called the Descriptive Camera.