{"id":6371,"date":"2017-12-22T10:47:59","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T18:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=6371"},"modified":"2017-12-22T10:47:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T18:47:59","slug":"hey-google-define-whats-a-beautiful-photograph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/22\/hey-google-define-whats-a-beautiful-photograph\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hey Google, define what&#8217;s a beautiful photograph&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know how Google Assistant can say \u201cHey, [<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/AHppmhyNx8M?t=9s\"><em>stateyourname<\/em><\/a>], you should probably leave for the airport by 5 to make it in time for your 7 o\u2019clock flight?\u201d I want it to also say, \u201cYou know, it\u2019s Mother\u2019s Day on Sunday. Would you like this photo book to show up on your mom\u2019s doorstep then together with some nice flowers?\u201d Take my money, robot; make me into a better son!<\/p>\n<p>Clearly such work involves a <em>lot<\/em>\u00a0of moving parts &amp; hard-to-define qualities (e.g. whether the memories evoked by an image are happy or sad may change greatly depending on things entirely outside the pixels). On the visual quality front, however, my teammates are making interesting progress. As Engadget <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/12\/21\/google-ai-rates-photo-quality\/\">writes<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If Google has its way, AI may serve as an art critic. It just detailed work on a <a href=\"https:\/\/research.googleblog.com\/2017\/12\/introducing-nima-neural-image-assessment.html\">Neural Image Assessment (NIMA) system<\/a> that uses a deep convolutional neural network to rate photos based on what it believes you&#8217;d like, both technically and aesthetically. It trains on a set of images based on a histogram of ratings (such as from photo contests) that give a sense of the overall quality of a picture in different areas, not just a mean score or a simple high\/low rating.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/research.googleblog.com\/2017\/12\/introducing-nima-neural-image-assessment.html\">Research blog<\/a>\u00a0for details on how it works.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.googleblog.com\/2017\/12\/introducing-nima-neural-image-assessment.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/NewImage-23.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"598\" height=\"318\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how Google Assistant can say \u201cHey, [stateyourname], you should probably leave for the airport by 5 to make it in time for your 7 o\u2019clock flight?\u201d I want it to also say, \u201cYou know, it\u2019s Mother\u2019s Day on Sunday. Would you like this photo book to show up on your mom\u2019s doorstep then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6372,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371\/revisions\/6372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}