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Re:Is It a Duck or a Rabbit? For Google Cloud Vision, Depend... by SilasX on Friday March 08, 2019 @10:35AM (#19338393)
They have scale-invariant feature transforms (SIFTs[1]). I wonder if they could do rotation-invariant ones that wouldn't have a different answer depending on rotation?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-invariant_feature_transf...

Re:Is It a Duck or a Rabbit? For Google Cloud Vision, Depend... by sjburt on Friday March 08, 2019 @10:57AM (#19338655)
SIFTs are rotation invariant. However, they are not good for classification.

Anyway, the early layers of an NN should be performing an encoding that creates scale and rotation invariance though, so that later layers can classify. That's what makes this result interesting. Well that and the ambiguity matches the human ambiguity.

Re:Is It a Duck or a Rabbit? For Google Cloud Vision, Depend... by jefft255 on Friday March 08, 2019 @12:45PM (#19339966)
Lookup spherical CNNs and tensor field networks, both are rotation invariant using spherical harmonics. They are not really used in practice however.