Comments on: 80 Million Tiny Images

80 Million Tiny Images

carsonb — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:46:00 -0800

A visualization of all the nouns in the English language arranged by semantic meaning. [NSFW words included!]

Currently computers have difficult recognizing objects in images. While practical solutions exist for a few simple classes such as human faces or cars, the more general problem of recognizing all different classes of objects in the world (e.g. guitars, bottles, telephones) remains unsolved. Computer Vision researchers are currently investigating methods that can recognize and localize thousands of different object categories in complex scenes. A key component of these algorithms is the data used to train the computers' model of each object. Current approaches use collections of images gathered by hand. Our research explores how the billions of images available on the Internet can be used to train models for object recognition. With overwhelming amounts of data, many problems can be tackled with simple algorithms. We gathered from the web 79 million images. We are using this massive dataset to train a computer to recognize objects within an image and to understand the scenes depicted in photographs. You can help... get better training data for computer vision algorithms by labeling some of the images.

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By: sevenyearlurk

sevenyearlurk — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:06:10 -0800

That is really cool. I tried to find "sex" but couldn't. I assume it's one of the pink parts :)

By: sevenyearlurk

sevenyearlurk — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:10:17 -0800

Oh, here we go... top right, about a third of the way down. In the early 16000s.

By: terranova

terranova — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:10:53 -0800

"Sorry! This page only works with Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. We may support other browsers in the future." - Message when one clicks on the images ...Computer Vision researchers are currently investigating methods that can recognize and localize thousands of different object categories in complex ~~scenes~~ browsers such as Safari, Opera, and Chrome.

By: Midnight Rambler

Midnight Rambler — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:11:07 -0800

I started randomly clicking and the first one a hit had a bunch of pictures of spread eagle women. Now I clicked away before I had time to realize what I saw (so I may have been mistaken), but I think it's in there.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:13:03 -0800

Go fig: the internet search-based visual dictionary is sort of inherently NSFW. Sorry!

By: Sova

Sova — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:17:03 -0800

Turns out Spock is next to otologists...cause they're both doctors, right? Oh dear.

By: ricochet biscuit

ricochet biscuit — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:17:33 -0800

On the first random click, I hit "ex-spouse", which is precisely between "important person" and "Handel." It only stands to reason.

By: Sova

Sova — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:21:03 -0800

(PS: The sex pictures are down near the bottom left corner, between Wales and bracken. Indeed, that is where sex is usually found.)

By: DU

DU — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:21:03 -0800

We tessellate the poster using the hierarchy so that the proximity of two tiles is given by their semantic distance. Without reading the WordNet link: Bullshit. "Mammary gland" is immediately adjacent to "fjord"? But forget anecdotes, how would you even do this in two dimensions especially with words that have multiple meanings?

By: barnacles

barnacles — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:21:16 -0800

By: ricochet biscuit

ricochet biscuit — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:23:12 -0800

Didn't see sevenyearlurk's discovery of sex, but did find: 16742) Organ Grinder -- > 16743 Mata Hari -->16744 Talent Agent --> 16745 President Ford. Ah.

By: neroli

neroli — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:25:55 -0800

After noticing the proximity of "grey hen" and "black cock," I'd say computers still have a long way to go in semantic recognition.

By: Avelwood

Avelwood — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:34:44 -0800

This is really cool to play with, but shouldn't they be looking at relationships between points on edge boundaries, the number of T, Y, and X intersections, or somehing more informative than simple color averages of often unreated images? And the words they use! Bostonian, nonbeliever, bugger, opthamologist, Aconitum Napellus? I think I would train a vision system on a few simple images to begin with (e.g. hand, face, square, tree, pen, table, etc.) and build from there. Are they really laboring under the delusion that a heap of different images with some vague relation to often nebulous terms is going to uncover some useful piece of the puzzle for computer vision research? Okay. That said the "Label Me" project seems like it would produce some useful material on which to train vision systems. So Kudos there.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:40:20 -0800

I think I would train a vision system on a few simple images to begin with (e.g. hand, face, square, tree, pen, table, etc.) and build from there. You're not alone.

By: Secret Life of Gravy

Secret Life of Gravy — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:45:11 -0800

The 39000s are strange. You got your Moron, Dunderhead, Schlemiel, Scatterbrain, Nebbish, Loggerhead, Space Cadet, Goof, Tomfool, Schnook, Cuckoo, Flibbrertigibbet, Numskull, Ninny, Putz, but you also have Vegan, Cigarette Smoker and Snacker. Shit Head and Goofball, on the other hand, are in the 40,000s.

By: Durn Bronzefist

Durn Bronzefist — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:55:52 -0800

homosexual --> cocksucker --> philatelist hmm.

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:04:52 -0800

homosexual --> cocksucker --> philatelist Collecting stamps blows?

By: Durn Bronzefist

Durn Bronzefist — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:09:23 -0800

I'm just thinking his stamp-licking technique is all wrong.

By: wastelands

wastelands — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:19:21 -0800

Very cool, although I don't understand how they decided on semantic meaning or relationships regarding the same.

By: kittyprecious

kittyprecious — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:33:34 -0800

PS: The sex pictures are down near the bottom left corner, between Wales and bracken. Except somehow "spunk" (which was my third totally-random click, after "man of the cloth" and "thickener") landed in the lower-center right. Oh, crap, I've set myself up for a pun.

By: intermod

intermod — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:59:50 -0800

Bad HTML, wouldn't even flow the text to fit my 1024 wide screen. Buh bye!

By: graventy

graventy — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:18:59 -0800

I assume someone just misspelled fellatelist.

By: Jimbob

Jimbob — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:22:39 -0800

My first click landed on "molester" (lovely) and when I clicked the image box it took me to this. Absolutely SFW, I promise, but does anyone have any idea what the fuck it is? A speaker on a 9 volt? Huh? Barnacles, that device is called "molester". It's a small circuit attached to a piezo speaker, that will emit a short, annoying high-pitched BEEP every few minutes. The idea is, you hide it in someone's house. The beep is too short and intermittent for them to be able to locate the sucker. And the 9V battery means it lasts for ages. Cheap way to send someone batshitinsane.

By: CaseyB

CaseyB — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:58:37 -0800

Google -> molester "9 volt" -> http://gadgetfind.com/mindmolester.html

By: six-or-six-thirty

six-or-six-thirty — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:30:38 -0800

First click? Gonad.

By: barnacles

barnacles — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:30:45 -0800

Jimbob, CaseyB: many thanks! That's fascinating -- I'd never heard of such a thing before and yet I ... I think I need one now!

By: jouke

jouke — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:02:04 -0800

The semantically significant colours seem to be chlorophyl, water and blood.

By: robtf3

robtf3 — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:35:21 -0800

15076 is Sex. Sexual Intercourse is 15732. Bestiality is 17369. Now if you will excuse me, I'm going to go scrub my brain with bleach.

By: tehloki

tehloki — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:42:12 -0800

[nsfw]what[and possibly not legal in your country]

By: slimepuppy

slimepuppy — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:39:39 -0800

First lead me to 'bacon rind'. I approve of this.

By: nthdegx

nthdegx — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:13:27 -0800

I got sphincter first go. Welcome to my life.

By: Enron Hubbard

Enron Hubbard — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:12:25 -0800

On the first random click, I hit "ex-spouse", which is precisely between "important person" and "Handel." It only stands to reason. My brain parsed that sentence as precisely between "important person" and "Grendel", which actually makes more sense. My first click was 13239 Chauvinist, by the way.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:17:02 -0800

I got "cubs" and there was no picture of Ernie Banks. I call bullshit. "Welcome to Wales!" "Thank you. Er, could you tell me where I could find some... bracken?"

By: Nelson

Nelson — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:11:14 -0800

I love stuff like this. But the images themselves seem to be dominated by two things: the average colour and how well framed the picture is.

By: COBRA!

COBRA! — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:35:18 -0800

I'm disturbed by how often my random-clicking hit "beastiality."

By: kittyprecious

kittyprecious — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:24:15 -0800

Which is not a word, even!

By: sevenyearlurk

sevenyearlurk — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:33:19 -0800

"Mammary gland" is immediately adjacent to "fjord"? Hmm... how about "fjord" is close to "mountain" is close to "Grand Teton" is close to "Mammary Gland"?

By: Guy_Inamonkeysuit

Guy_Inamonkeysuit — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:04:00 -0800

homosexual --> cocksucker --> philatelist Collecting stamps blows? Nah. Blowing stamp collectors.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:35:40 -0800

Speaking of molesters, did I ever mention my Great Idea? Which is, namely, to hid a half-dozen of them around an airport. Imagine the chaos!

By: flatluigi

flatluigi — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:18:10 -0800

The first item in the visual dictionary is "blind."