Google has removed the “View Image” button from its Image Search results that had allowed anyone to quickly download the original image file while bypassing the host webpage. This is a step Google is taking to help protect photographers’ copyrights.
Last week, Getty Images announced a new licensing partnership with Google (which Google calls a […]. petapixel.com
Image: Google We have seen several attempts at automated image assessment from both technical and aesthetic points of view in the past. For example, Google researchers have previously used convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to assess image quality of specific image categories, such as landscapes. dpreview.com »
2017-12-26 21:38
It seems intelligent enhancement of image detail is currently high on the agenda at Google. Recently the company brought its RAISR smart image upsampling to Android devices. Now, the Google Brain team has developed a system that uses neural networking to enhance detail in low-resolution images. dpreview.com »
2017-02-08 23:07
Anyone who manages a large image library knows how important keywording and captioning are for categorizing and keeping things searchable. They also know how time-consuming these tasks can be. dpreview.com »
2016-09-26 21:20
Google has made an eerily accurate image captioning algorithm available to developers via the open source software library TensorFlow. The ‘Show and Tell’ captioning system works using a new version of Google’s ‘Inception’ image classification model, which includes a new vision component. digitalrev.com »
2016-09-26 03:00
Well, you can add “captioning photos” to the list of jobs robots will soon be able to do just as well as humans. After some training, the latest version of Google’s “Show and Tell” algorithm can describe the contents of a photo with staggering 94% accuracy. Show and Tell is in the news today because […] petapixel.com »
2016-09-24 01:05
A research team at Google has developed a way to use neural networks to compress image files in a more efficient way than current methods, such as the JPEG standard. The team built an artificial intelligence system using Google's open source TensorFlow machine learning system, and then used 6 million random reference photos from the internet that had been compressed using conventional methods to train it. dpreview.com »
2016-08-24 21:33
After nearly two decades battling in court, lead plaintiff Mitch Goldstone, CEO and owner of the small film scanning business Scan My Photos, has bested major banks and credit card companies Visa and Mastercard. [Read More]
Canon USA has agreed to settle claims regarding the data breach it suffered in August of 2020 and will pay affected employees cash for compromising their personal data. [Read More]
An independent photojournalist that sued the D. C. Police following his arrest for filming a protest in 2020 has won a settlement. During a racial justice protest in August 2020, Kian Kelley-Chung, a local Black journalist and documentarian, was arrested among 40 other people, DCist reports.
Photographer David Slater has finally settled his two-year legal battle over the monkey selfie photos that went viral back in 2011. The animal rights group PETA has dropped the lawsuit against Slater after Slater agreed to donate 25% of all future profits from the photo to registered charities “dedicated to protecting the welfare or habitat” […]