Facebook’s new search AI lets you find images by content

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by Sindy Cator on February 2, 2017 at 5:41 pm

Facebook now lets you search for images by typing in the actual content within them, much like Google Photos. The technology – called Lumos – was first used to improve Facebook’s accessibility for visually-impaired users, allowing images to be described by their content. But the technology has other uses, such as making it easier to find photos of places or objects. E.g. looking up all the photos of pugs you’ve taken over the years. Machine Learning @Scale Posted by Facebook Engineering on Wednesday, February 1, 2017 Facebook analyzed billions of photos using deep-learning techniques, using a variety of signals…