Games Learning from Gamers

daRk_heLmet · Aug 10, 2005, 01:30 AM

A guessing game that lets players idle away a few minutes online could also teach computers how to recognise the world around them.

The game, called Peekaboom, was devised by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in the US. It harnesses the brain power of online players to train a set of powerful vision recognition algorithms. This could eventually enable computers to recognise images in a similar way to humans - by focusing on the most relevant features.

After signing up, a player is asked to slowly reveal parts of an image, chosen at random from the web - with an associated word describing it - to a second player. Player 2, in turn, must identify the whole image as quickly as possible. Player 1 can also tell their partner how "warm" or "cold" they are with each guess, or “peek”.

The theory goes that Player 1 will choose to reveal the key features of the image first – those aspects that they consider best represents the whole. If the image was of a pig, for example, they might chose to reveal its distinctive snout to Player 2 first.
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Aug 10, 2005, 01:30 AM	#1
daRk_heLmet Keep firing, assholes! Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Death Star Posts: 1,072 Rep Power: 0	Games Learning from Gamers A guessing game that lets players idle away a few minutes online could also teach computers how to recognise the world around them. The game, called Peekaboom, was devised by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in the US. It harnesses the brain power of online players to train a set of powerful vision recognition algorithms. This could eventually enable computers to recognise images in a similar way to humans - by focusing on the most relevant features. After signing up, a player is asked to slowly reveal parts of an image, chosen at random from the web - with an associated word describing it - to a second player. Player 2, in turn, must identify the whole image as quickly as possible. Player 1 can also tell their partner how "warm" or "cold" they are with each guess, or “peek”. The theory goes that Player 1 will choose to reveal the key features of the image first – those aspects that they consider best represents the whole. If the image was of a pig, for example, they might chose to reveal its distinctive snout to Player 2 first. ______________________________ Read More/Source: New Scientist __________________ [color=white]My Blog[/color]