Army researchers are improving how computers manage a myriad of images, which will help analysts across the DOD [Department of Defense] intelligence community.
In a new user interface developed for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, the U.S. Army Research Laboratory's Dr. Jeff Hansberger designed and created a system that facilitates the visualization, navigation and manipulation of tens of thousands of images.
Hansberger works at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, or ARL Human Research and Engineering Directorate field element at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama. DARPA selected his design earlier this year for its Visual Media Reasoning, or VMR.
The DARPA VMR system aids intelligence analysts in searching, filtering, and exploring visual media through the use of advanced computer vision and reasoning techniques.
[Also Covered By]: http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/05/darpa-visual-media-reasoning/
Original Submission
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2015, @11:29AM
looks like the fucking windows 8 start screen
darpa should stick to what they're good at... developing terminators
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2015, @12:19PM
If you want to succeed in the tech industry, remember one thing: hate Windows 8. If you don't hate Windows 8, you'd better find another career, because you're finished, unless you hate Windows 8. Put it on your resume, folks: hate Windows 8. It's a marketable skill, and in fact, the only skill that matters in today's job market: hate Windows 8. Successful people all hate Windows 8. If you want to be a successful person, hate Windows 8.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday July 06 2015, @08:59PM
Successful people all hate Windows 8. If you want to be a successful person, hate Windows 8.
Correlation is not causation! But it can be. You seem to have it backwards here, however.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2015, @03:40PM
You're joking, but DAPRA is responsible for some pretty amazing [alphr.com] and useful technologies, like the internet and GPS.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2015, @03:50PM
Sure, but this time it just looks like they just reinvented thumbnails.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by khakipuce on Monday July 06 2015, @11:56AM
Come on! that reads like the most vacuous press release going. This is supposed to be a site aimed a the technically minded, give us some detail other than "DARPA selected something to do better image handling"
Why is this system so good, what new technologies does it introduce, how is it better than existing? I'm not reading the article if you don't give me a reason to.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2015, @12:11PM
RFTA
(Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Monday July 06 2015, @12:16PM
Mate, you joking aren't you? Of course the details are secret.
What's not that secret: US has so brilliant students that only 2 working part time managed to solve a problem that US Army had.
Or... hang on... maybe it suggests that the US Army is so backwards that only 2 students working part time managed to come with something better? (mumble-mumble) I don't know, I don't know
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2015, @12:55PM
Your statements labeling TFS as a VPR are OTM IMHO. DOD'S DARPA & ARL HRED's VMR are A-OK and if you don't agree you're SOL so GTFO. Acronym alphabet FTW!
(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday July 06 2015, @11:10PM
None of the links seem to point to any significant revaluations.
Which is exactly what you expect when someone rips off Google images or Bing images and slaps a Secret stamp on it.
Personally, I don't think there is anything here other than a semi-pirated image sorting and presentation platform.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2015, @12:42PM
Finally! AI to find terrorist photos automatically. It's not racial profiling if a computer does it.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday July 06 2015, @01:09PM
May as well include in your prayer: "electric candles", "plastic glass", "business ethics", "government worker", "honest broker", "educational television", "Microsoft Works".
Ah, yes, tomorrow I'll be "working from home".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday July 06 2015, @12:47PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2015, @01:02PM
I remember it learning sunny weather vs other weather. Because the photos of enemy tanks were made under all kinds of weather conditions, while the photos of friendly tanks were all made under the same sunny conditions.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2015, @03:55PM
Looks like a treemap...