These visualizations are really for the human observer of the CV process. They’re akin to Rodney Brooks’s idea of language having been invented by god to make it easier to read our minds. In this case these graphics give a window on the extent to which the CV algorithms are seeing the world the way we want them to, whether their vision agrees with ours. It’s not an internal representation, it’s a performance for our benefit.
— The always-brilliant >Greg Borenstein in a comment on Timo Arnall’s fascinating video compilation, The Robot Readable World. (via blech)
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