- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Frontispiece
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- How This Book Came About
- Powerful Ideas Dealt with in the Book
- I The Physical World
- 1 Quantum Physics Takes Free Will into Account
- 2 Unifying Particle Physics with the Cosmology of the Primordial Universe
- 3 For Exoplanets, Anything Is Possible
- 4 From Casimir Forces to Black-Body Radiation: Quantum and Thermal Fluctuations
- 5 The Challenge of Climate Change
- 6 Graphene and Its “Family”: The Finest Materials Ever to Exist
- 7 The Laws of Thermodynamics Tell You What Is and What Is Not Possible
- 8 Wisdom Hewn in Ancient Stones
- 9 Galileo Programme: Planning Uncertainty and Imagining the Possible and the Impossible
- 10 Looking Forward in Architecture by Looking Back
- 11 The Seamless Coupling of Bits and Atoms
- II Information
- 12 Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
- 13 The Logic of Physics versus the Logic of Computer Science
- 14 The Pillars of MIT: Innovation, Radical Meritocracy, and Open Knowledge
- 15 We Need Algorithms That Can Make Explicit What Is Implicit
- 16 The Emergence of a Nonbiological Intelligence
- 17 Remembering Our Future: The Frontier of Search Technologies
- 18 The Challenge of the Open Dissemination of Knowledge, Distributed Intelligence, and Information Technology
- 19 Technology Is Something to Make the World a Better Place
- 20 Encryption as a Human Right
- 21 Order in Cyberspace Can Only Be Maintained with a Combination of Ethics and Technology
- 22 The Free Software Paradigm and the Hacker Ethic
- III Intelligence
- 23 “Affective Computing” Is Not an Oxymoron
- 24 Mind, Brain, and Behavior
- 25 MIT Collaborative Innovation: It Takes >2 to Tango
- 26 Mind over Matter: Brain-Machine Interfaces
- 27 We Want Robots to See and Understand the World
- 28 Between Caves: From Plato to the Brain through the Internet
- 29 There Will Be No End of Work
- 30 A Smart Mob Is Not Necessarily a Wise Mob
- 31 Measuring the Intelligence of Everything
- 32 Touching the Soul of Michelangelo
- IV Epilogue
- 33 Geometry of a Multidimensional Universe: Weightless Art and the Painting of the Void
- Name Index
- Subject Index
We Want Robots to See and Understand the World
We Want Robots to See and Understand the World
- Chapter:
- (p.305) 27 We Want Robots to See and Understand the World
- Source:
- Is the Universe a Hologram?
- Author(s):
Antonio Torralba
Adolfo Plasencia
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
Antonio Torralba, member of MIT CSAIL, opens the dialogue by describing the research he performs in the field of computer vision and related artificial intelligence (AI). He also compares the conceptual differences and the context of the early days of artificial intelligence—where hardly any image recording devices existed—with the present situation, in which an enormous amount of data is available. Next, through the use of examples, he talks about the huge complexity faced by research in computer vision to get computers and machines to understand the meanings of what they “see” in the scenes, and the objects they contain, by means of digital cameras. As he explains afterward, the challenge of this complexity for computer vision processing is particularly noticeable in settings involving robots, or driverless cars, where it makes no sense to develop vision systems that can see if they cannot learn. Later he argues why today’s computer systems have to learn “to see” because if there is no learning process, for example machine learning, they will never be able to make autonomous decisions.
Keywords: Computer vision, Artificial intelligence (AI), Image processing, Semantic tags, Machine vision, Object recognition, Driverless cars, Machine learning, Semantic tags
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Frontispiece
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- How This Book Came About
- Powerful Ideas Dealt with in the Book
- I The Physical World
- 1 Quantum Physics Takes Free Will into Account
- 2 Unifying Particle Physics with the Cosmology of the Primordial Universe
- 3 For Exoplanets, Anything Is Possible
- 4 From Casimir Forces to Black-Body Radiation: Quantum and Thermal Fluctuations
- 5 The Challenge of Climate Change
- 6 Graphene and Its “Family”: The Finest Materials Ever to Exist
- 7 The Laws of Thermodynamics Tell You What Is and What Is Not Possible
- 8 Wisdom Hewn in Ancient Stones
- 9 Galileo Programme: Planning Uncertainty and Imagining the Possible and the Impossible
- 10 Looking Forward in Architecture by Looking Back
- 11 The Seamless Coupling of Bits and Atoms
- II Information
- 12 Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
- 13 The Logic of Physics versus the Logic of Computer Science
- 14 The Pillars of MIT: Innovation, Radical Meritocracy, and Open Knowledge
- 15 We Need Algorithms That Can Make Explicit What Is Implicit
- 16 The Emergence of a Nonbiological Intelligence
- 17 Remembering Our Future: The Frontier of Search Technologies
- 18 The Challenge of the Open Dissemination of Knowledge, Distributed Intelligence, and Information Technology
- 19 Technology Is Something to Make the World a Better Place
- 20 Encryption as a Human Right
- 21 Order in Cyberspace Can Only Be Maintained with a Combination of Ethics and Technology
- 22 The Free Software Paradigm and the Hacker Ethic
- III Intelligence
- 23 “Affective Computing” Is Not an Oxymoron
- 24 Mind, Brain, and Behavior
- 25 MIT Collaborative Innovation: It Takes >2 to Tango
- 26 Mind over Matter: Brain-Machine Interfaces
- 27 We Want Robots to See and Understand the World
- 28 Between Caves: From Plato to the Brain through the Internet
- 29 There Will Be No End of Work
- 30 A Smart Mob Is Not Necessarily a Wise Mob
- 31 Measuring the Intelligence of Everything
- 32 Touching the Soul of Michelangelo
- IV Epilogue
- 33 Geometry of a Multidimensional Universe: Weightless Art and the Painting of the Void
- Name Index
- Subject Index
