Last week, researchers from the University of Maryland and the University of Pennsylvania reported the workings of a computer program capable of learning to understand video footage and describe it in words. A sort of video-to-text system, the software reports the action rather than the dialogue. So an analysis of a video showing Hank Aaron hitting his 715th career home run to surpass the mark set by Babe Ruth wouldn’t include the play-by-play announcer saying, "It’s 715! There’s a new home run" (source: spectrum.ieee.org)
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