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Facebook Announces Auto-Tagging in Videos

According to Joaquin Quinonero Candela from Facebook’s Applied Machine Learning team, AI is also going to play a role in an upcoming Facebook feature which will allow auto-tagging of videos. The idea is to use machine learning to search for people who might be featured in the video and auto-tag the user(s) accordingly. The feature will also allow Facebook users to click on a person’s tag in order to quickly navigate the video’s timeline to where the person appears in the frame.

Facebook was not able to reveal a concrete timeframe for when the auto-tagging feature for videos might be released to the public. However, during the conference the company also mentioned that they are working on implementing real-time video classification through AI, allowing the platform to classify videos without relying on tags. Facebook also touched on the new Talking Pictures feature which uses machine learning and what the company calls “image segmentation” in order to describe photos to blind and visually impaired users. The feature was released on iOS earlier this month in a handful of regions, including Australia, Canada, the U.S., the U.K., and New Zealand, and is heading for a launch on the Android platform.

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