PlaNet: Google’s artificial intelligence that will understand where you are … – SmartWorld

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The last effort made by Google in the field of ‘ AI could dispel all your wishes to “disappear” without let anyone know where you are: PlaNet, software for image recognition developed by big G is in fact able to figure out where it was taken a photo without the information geoTagging.

in the same way that you could recognize the city of Pisa in a photo, if you see in the image portrayed the iconic tower, the software it uses a recognition system to fine-known special fire without stopping, however the most famous monuments in the world: in the database to which it draws on are in fact stored intersections, roads and regular glimpses of everyday landscapes, which allow PlaNet also identify locations far more anonymous.

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Put to the test 2.3 million images taken from Flickr, PlaNet was able to guess the place where they had been taken at various levels: in 3.6% of cases has in fact identified the exact road, while in 10.1% of cases the software has stopped to recognize the city of origin. The percentages rise even considering the situations in which the software has only guessed the nation where he took the image (28.4% of cases) or continent ( 48% of cases).

to better understand these percentages, if you were not particularly impressed by the results, we invite you to test yourself in the first person with Geoguessr, a game that will challenge you right in guessing the origin of a photo taken from Google Maps, to realize how the firm is complex in the absence of famous monuments or particular brands.

the same challenge has then occurred to Tobias Weyand , the project’s chief engineer, and his colleagues, who put PlaNet in front of 10 experts in geography: the program beat opponents in 28 of the 50 challenges proposed, but managing also to identify about 50 % of the errors made by his challengers in the flesh.

the way in which Google does not yet have information at present intends to use PlaNet in the future, but one thing is certain: if you are not going to track you, is better than to come back and take pictures of your travels with a traditional camera.

Via: TheVerge