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Researchers teach computers how to name images by 'thinking'
11-01-2006 · EurekAlert!Penn State researchers have "taught" computers how to interpret images using a vocabulary of up to 330 English words, so that a computer can describe a photograph of two polo players, for instance, as "sport," "people," "horse," "polo."
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