Facebook Is Trying to Figure Out How to Automatically Detect Mirror Selfies

Facebook Is Trying to Figure Out How to Automatically Detect Mirror Selfies

In the picture above, you see some dude (it me) taking a picture of himself in his dingy bathroom mirror. A classic mirror selfie, if you will. When even the most advanced artificially intelligent image recognition software sees that image, however, it sees something very different. It might see a man, a phone, a white checkered shirt—this would be a cutting-edge analysis that’s only newly possible, by the way—but it wouldn’t identify the image as a mirror selfie, or a selfie at all. Solving the mirror selfie problem is one of the most important questions left when it comes to machine vision: Image recognition software can now fairly reliably describe what it’s seeing, but it lacks the cultural knowledge or reasoning skills to put it into context. Larry Zitnick, a…


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