Researchers Create New Intelligent Software

Computer scientists at Dartmouth have created artificial intelligence software that uses photos, instead of just text, to locate documents on the Internet, reports The Economic Times.

“By studying results from text-based image search engines, the software recognizes the pixels associated with a search phrase and applies them to other photos without tags or captions, locating them more accurately,” the newspaper explains .

Lorenzo Torresani, an associate professor of computer science and co-author of the study, says that “modern machine vision systems are accurate and efficient enough to make effective use of the information contained in image pixels to improve document search.”

Read the full story, published 11/19/14 by The Economic Times. Additional press coverage of this work has appeared on NBC News.