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DARPA spies on analyst brains; hopes to offload image analysis to computers

arstechnica.com — As things currently stand, computers have some pretty severe limitations when it comes to image analysis, as they frequently misidentify the basic components of an image. That leaves humans the undisputed champs at recognizing significant features of photographs.

Who dugg this? Made popular Nov 13, 2007

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  • shanesemler, on 11/14/2007, -0/+8You should have chosen a better title. Something like, "Military Wants to Create Image Processing Cyborg!"
  • LifeVirusZERO, on 11/14/2007, -0/+4The DARPA Chief!?!? You mean Decoy Octopus!
  • inactive, on 11/13/2007, -0/+3You must be new here, welcome to Digg.
  • ahintoflime, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2Metal Gear!?!
  • destraht, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1What comes to mind are the lensers on The Chronicles of Ridick movie. They were basically retarded humans that with a big visor on that could see through mountains and walls and stuff. They would be led around with a handle.
  • jknevitt, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1Cue Big Brother/civil liberties/Bush/impeachment/Apple/Ubuntu/9-11 truth/OLPC/Ron Paul comment in 3... 2... 1...
  • Hostile17, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1The DARPA Chief! A heart-attack or something! Whatever!
  • archimago42, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1Sounds like that would be mentally draining.
  • deathlip, on 11/13/2007, -0/+120-minute-long image bombardment. I like 8 hour tripps.
  • lalop, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1Let's burn the computer. Show the analysts some porn.
  • Brajeshwar, on 11/14/2007, -0/+1Yes, strange things sometimes happen in Digg land. Reminds me of the dig "digga tunna" song from Lion King 3 by Timon's gang.
  • Brajeshwar, on 11/14/2007, -0/+1Right, I just realize I'm not that smart as you. ;-)
  • warrenwebber, on 11/14/2007, -0/+1This has like the least amount of diggs and has been on the front page for a while.
  • graham32, on 09/09/2008, -0/+0This is interesting.
    http://premium-tv.info
  • ezkash, on 02/08/2008, -0/+0Boring title but funny. http://mymicropayments.com
  • Eisum, on 11/14/2007, -1/+0Haha thought the same!
    Took 5 min break from MGS to check my e-mails and there's DARPA news! quality!
  • Klepto21, on 11/13/2007, -2/+1Front Page with 40 diggs? WTF?

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