EBay acquires visual search engine Corrigon for less than $30M

Re:EBay acquires visual search engine Corrigon for less than... by pcunite on Thursday October 06, 2016 @12:24AM (#12650235)

I need a way to identify if an image of a particular automobile is a red four door jeep or a blue two door corvette.

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Re:EBay acquires visual search engine Corrigon for less than... by zanalyzer on Thursday October 06, 2016 @02:59AM (#12650707)

easy: take a thousand pictures of each photo with your cell phone, adding some variation, use as training data for a CNN, tweet result to @boredyannlecun for debugging, decide to take an uber instead of buying a car on ebay

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Re:EBay acquires visual search engine Corrigon for less than... by nl on Thursday October 06, 2016 @07:03AM (#12651462)

You want https://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=2005&scio... and anything referencing http://mmlab.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/datasets/comp_cars/CompCars.pdf

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Re:EBay acquires visual search engine Corrigon for less than... by kalleboo on Thursday October 06, 2016 @08:25AM (#12651816)

10 cent query on Mechanical Turk?

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Re:EBay acquires visual search engine Corrigon for less than... by johnward on Thursday October 06, 2016 @08:56AM (#12652006)

Mechanical Turk is the truly "cognitive" system.

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