Want computers to see better in the real world? Train them in a virtual reality

(Chinese Association of Automation) Datasets play a crucial role in the training and testing of the computer vision systems. Using manually labeled training datasets, a computer vision system compares its current situation to known situations and takes the best action it can 'think' of -- whatever that happens to be. Scientists have developed a new way to improve how computers 'see' and 'understand' objects in the real world by training the computers' vision systems in a virtual environment.