What Makes Paris Await Similar Paris?

From a origin nosotros don't link to often enough, Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery. Thanks to a friend:

Communications of the ACM, Dec 2015, Vol. 58 No. 12, Pages 103-110
10.1145/2830541

Given a large repository of geo-tagged imagery, nosotros try to automatically discovery visual elements, for instance windows, balconies, in addition to street signs, that are most distinctive for a sure as shooting geo-spatial area, for instance the metropolis of Paris. This is a tremendously hard chore equally the visual features distinguishing architectural elements of unlike places tin sack hold upward really subtle. In addition, nosotros expression upward a hard search problem: given all possible patches inwards all images, which of them are both often occurring and geographically informative? To address these issues, nosotros advise to purpose a discriminative clustering approach able to cause got into draw of piece of occupation organization human relationship the weak geographic supervision. We demonstrate that geographically representative icon elements tin sack hold upward discovered automatically from Google Street View imagery inwards a discriminative manner. We demonstrate that these elements are visually interpretable in addition to perceptually geo-informative. The discovered visual elements tin sack too back upward a diverseness of computational geography tasks, such equally mapping architectural correspondences in addition to influences inside in addition to across cities, finding representative elements at unlike geo-spatial scales, in addition to geographically informed icon retrieval.

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From New Scientist via Communications of the ACM:

Bristol Robotics Laboratory's Alan Winfield in addition to colleagues of late tested an ethical challenge for a robot, programming it to forestall other automatons--representing humans--from falling into a hole.

When researchers used 2 human proxies, the robot was forced to select which to save. In some cases, it saved 1 proxy piece letting the other perish, piece inwards others, it saved both. However, inwards fourteen out of 33 trials, the robot spent in addition to therefore much fourth dimension making its determination that both proxies barbarous into the hole.

Winfield describes his robot equally an "ethical zombie" that has no choice merely to bear equally it does....MORE

At the same fourth dimension you lot desire the estimator to discriminate betwixt the ascendancy "Execute the trade" in addition to the ascendancy "Execute the trader".