{"id":10919,"date":"2021-09-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=10919"},"modified":"2021-05-07T06:45:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T14:45:18","slug":"glom-attempting-to-make-computer-vision-better-at-mimicking-how-humans-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/glom-attempting-to-make-computer-vision-better-at-mimicking-how-humans-see\/","title":{"rendered":"GLOM: Attempting to Make Computer Vision Better by Mimicking How Humans See"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Human brains are set up to be able to intuit from partial views of objects information about the size, shape and type of thing that is being viewed.  And it is able to do it quickly &#8212; in fractions of seconds.  This intuitiveness is something that computer vision algorithms are lacking.  Vast amount of computing are currently needed to be able to match some the simple vision capabilities that come intuitively to humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the pioneers of Artificial Intelligence, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geoffrey_Hinton\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geoffrey_Hinton\">Geoffrey Hinton<\/a>, has an idea for how to make computer vision more similar to how humans experience vision. Hinton calls the new method <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/events\/event_summ.jsp?cntn_id=302021&amp;org=NSF\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/events\/event_summ.jsp?cntn_id=302021&amp;org=NSF\">GLOM<\/a> (named after the slang term of &#8216;glomming things together&#8217;, or agglomeration), an idea inspired from mathematics and biology, and which attempts to make neural networks smarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hinton <a href=\"https:\/\/radical.vc\/radical-reads-exclusive-geoffrey-hinton\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/radical.vc\/radical-reads-exclusive-geoffrey-hinton\">said that<\/a> &#8220;for humans, vision is really a sampling process, where the eye makes real time decisions around what information in the field of vision is going to be further deciphered. For example, we\u2019re very good at quickly sampling and processing anything that moves. The same is true for something that has a different color from its background. When the eye fixates, whatever is in the middle of the retina is at high resolution and whatever is around the edge of that will be at a low resolution. You process what\u2019s in focus for several 100 milliseconds before your eye fixates on something else. <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2102.12627v1.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2102.12627v1.pdf\">GLOM <\/a>is about the deep learning process that happens after the system fixates on an image. It addresses a research problem I\u2019ve had for the past 50 years and feels much closer to an understanding of how the brain might be doing vision&#8230; With GLOM, you should be able to recognize images based on the relationships between parts of an image, not on fine textures and things that aren\u2019t discernible to the human eye.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"lightsocial_container\"><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fglom-attempting-to-make-computer-vision-better-at-mimicking-how-humans-see%2F&amp;title=\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/digg.png\" alt=\"Digg This\" title=\"Digg This\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" 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