Recognition – the artificial intelligence project winner of IK Prize 2016 by Tate.
Fabrica’s award-winning artificial intelligence program compares up-to-the-minute photo journalistic images from Reuters with British art from the Tate collection. The IK Prize 2016 has been awarded in partnership with Microsoft. In order to develop Recognition, Coralie Gourguechon, Monica Lanaro, Angelo Semeraro, and Isaac Vallentin of Fabrica teamed up with the internationally renowned artificial intelligence specialists Jolibrain. Based on visual and thematic similarities, the program is searching through Tate’s archive and collection of British art online, comparing works with news images from Reuters. The developers of the project used a variety of latest computer vision technologies such as object recognition, facial recognition, and composition analysis. Please read more below the first image.
From September 2 up to November 27, 2016, the online project will collect an ever-expanding virtual gallery. Accompanied by a display at Tate Britain, visitors can experience visual similarities between art and photojournalism. Furthermore, they are invited to compare the artificially selected matches with their own experiences and selections in order to help retrain the algorithm. For further information about the project, please visit Fabrica’s website and look for Recognition or see it live in action here: recognition.tate.org.uk
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