A new patent from Google could potentially change the way we
publish videos onto the net in the future. What is this patent exactly? It’s
known as “automatic large scale video object recognition.”
This
object recognition technology works in a similar way to other face recognition techniques, but it takes things a step
further. How so? It can actually recognize the difference between a variety of
objects, not just human faces.
Whether you are talking about a cat or even a bike, the patent
is designed to recognize it. After recognizing an object it then labels it with
certain tags. If you are wondering how it does this, there is a special object
name repository involved. This database would hold at least 50,000 object
names, information and shapes that would allow for easy identification.
Essentially this is just another way to tag and better track
videos for things like SEO. Ultimately it makes it easier for YouTube and
Google to tag and track videos, but it also could make it easier for us to
search for them. The system would still allow for manual tagging of objects and
animals, but would do a lot of the work itself through an automated process.
It’s unclear when and where exactly object recognition
technology will be put into place, though it is pretty much guaranteed to make
its way over to YouTube.
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