New software can recognise events in YouTube videos

These events can include such things as riding a horse, baking cookies or eating at a restaurant. (website) Scientists have developed a computer software that can recognise events in YouTube videos, even those that it has not previously seen.
The new approach uses both scene and object features from the video and enables associations between these visual elements and each type of event to be automatically determined and weighted by a machine-learning architecture known as a neural network.
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