Hacker News with Generative AI: Image Recognition

Homomorphic encryption in iOS 18 (boehs.org)
You are Apple. You want to make search work like magic in the Photos app, so the user can find all their “dog” pictures with ease. You devise a way to numerically represent the concepts of an image, so that you can find how closely images are related in meaning. Then, you create a database of known images and their numerical representations (“this number means car”), and find the closest matches. To preserve privacy, you put this database on the phone.

Privacy, Image Recognition, Security

372 points by surprisetalk 7 days ago | 205 comments

How we used GPT-4o for image detection with 350 similar illustrations (pages.dev)

Generative AI, Image Recognition

220 points by olup 7 days ago | 89 comments

Homomorphic Encryption in iOS 18 (boehs.org)
You are Apple. You want to make search work like magic in the Photos app, so the user can find all their “dog” pictures with ease. You devise a way to numerically represent the concepts of an image, so that you can find how closely images are related in meaning. Then, you create a database of known images and their numerical representations (“this number means car”), and find the closest matches. To preserve privacy, you put this database on the phone.

Privacy, Mobile Security, Machine Learning, Image Recognition, iOS

10 points by vsgherzi 7 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Pixie – A tool to shop for clothes using pictures (ShopWithPixie.com)

Shopping, Image Recognition, Tools, E-commerce, Fashion

13 points by dayaya 12 days ago | 4 comments

Apple auto-opts everyone into having their photos analyzed by AI for landmarks (theregister.com)
Apple last year deployed a mechanism for identifying landmarks and places of interest in images stored in the Photos application on its customers iOS and macOS devices and enabled it by default, seemingly without explicit consent.

Privacy, Apple, AI, Image Recognition

90 points by pseudolus 15 days ago | 54 comments

DreamSim: Learning New Dimensions of Human Visual Similarity (2023) (dreamsim-nights.github.io)
Which image, A or B, is most similar to the reference? We generate a new benchmark of synthetic image triplets that span a wide range of mid-level variations, labeled with human similarity judgments.

Computer Vision, Image Recognition, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

10 points by lnyan 57 days ago | 0 comments

Pixtral Large (mistral.ai)
Today we announce Pixtral Large, a 124B open-weights multimodal model built on top of Mistral Large 2. Pixtral Large is the second model in our multimodal family and demonstrates frontier-level image understanding.

Generative AI, Open Source, Image Recognition

15 points by sshroot 61 days ago | 1 comments

Claude can now view images within a PDF (twitter.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Image Recognition

8 points by timbilt 77 days ago | 2 comments

Implementing neural networks on the "3 cent" 8-bit microcontroller (wordpress.com)
Bouyed by the surprisingly good performance of neural networks with quantization aware training on the CH32V003, I wondered how far this can be pushed. How much can we compress a neural network while still achieving good test accuracy on the MNIST dataset?

Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Microcontrollers, Embedded Systems, Image Recognition

159 points by cpldcpu 90 days ago | 20 comments

Kagi Update: AI Image Filter for Search Results (kagi.com)
As AI-generated images become increasingly prevalent across the web, many users find their image search results cluttered with artificial content. This can be particularly frustrating when searching for authentic, human-created images or specific real-world references.

AI, Search Engines, Image Recognition, Privacy

271 points by lkellar 92 days ago | 105 comments

Answer any question about your photo albums with OmniQuery (jiahaoli.net)
OmniQuery enables free-form question answering on personal memories (i.e., private data in albums) with RAG. Specifically, it applies contextual data augmentation (taxonomy-based) to enhance the retrieval accuracy, and uses LLMs to generate answers based on the retrieved memory instances.

Artificial Intelligence, Image Recognition, Computer Vision, Personal Data, Privacy

51 points by ljhnick 102 days ago | 14 comments

Can you tell if these images are real or generated? (britannicaeducation.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Image Generation, Image Recognition, Computer Vision

26 points by smusamashah 180 days ago | 37 comments

Show HN: Cluttr – A local first utility to make images searchable using Ollama (cluttr.ai)

Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, Open Source, Web Development, Image Recognition

11 points by bearjaws 183 days ago | 1 comments

Ultra simplified "MNIST" in 60 lines of Python with NumPy (github.com/tonio-m)

Machine Learning, Python, NumPy, Image Recognition

37 points by tonio 191 days ago | 6 comments

Google's Nonconsensual Explicit Images Problem Is Getting Worse (wired.com)