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In the news | Forbes
Microsoft’s Spooky New Bot Can Automatically Caption Your Photos – Sometimes
Microsoft's CaptionBot uses computer vision and natural language processing to describe any photo, just as a human would.
In the news | TechCrunch
Microsoft demos next-generation image-captioning Captionbot
Microsoft created Captionbot.ai, which is a tremendously addictive (and science-fiction-grade awesome).
In the news | Communications of the ACM
Seeing More Clearly (ACM .pdf)
Communications of the ACM interviewed Fei-Fei Li, Rob Fergus, Richard Zemel and Xiaodong He on recent progress in computer vision and language processing, interview highlighted in "Seeing More Clearly" in the January 2016 issue of CACM.
In the news | The Guardian
Microsoft has made a computer that can recognise a dog in a bike basket
The system uses natural language processing, which breaks down a scene into simple language that a human would use (e.g. what is in the left side behind me?).
In the news | ZDNet
Microsoft trains machine to answer, ‘What’s that animal in your basket?’
Microsoft Research and a team at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a system that can train machines to examine an image and seek to answer questions the way a human might ask them.