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Seeing Things
![[article image]](/system/assets/0000/1675/101609_CeLiu_Object_Recognition.large.jpg?1255714842&1255714840 "object recognition image")
MIT's object recognition system will label objects in a new image if they map onto an image that has been previously outlined and labeled.
Courtesy of Ce Liu / MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Antonio Torralba and students from the school's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) say they have developed an object recognition system that requires no training and can identify objects at least as well as and any other available program.
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