Software Combines Thousands of Online Images Into One That Represents Them All 66
Zothecula writes If you're trying to find out what the common features of tabby cats are, a Google image search will likely yield more results than you'd ever have the time or inclination to look over. New software created at the University of California, Berkeley, however, is designed to make such quests considerably easier. Known as AverageExplorer, it searches out thousands of images of a given subject, then amalgamates them into one composite "average" image.
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My fear (Score:2, Insightful)
You'll be impressed (Score:4, Insightful)
With this complex algorithm that takes a fuck-ton of image data and produces for you: something that is almost impossible to tell apart from applying the blur filter on the original image.
The Average Cat (Score:3, Insightful)
So...what the software demonstrates is that if you line up all the pictures of cats by centering them on their noses, you will CLEARLY see...
The rest is blurry and remarkably uninformative.
There needs to be a LOT more intelligence, either machine or human, applied to this before it is remarkable.
Automatically means no control (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Frist psot (Score:0, Insightful)
Only if "you spin me right round" is playing.