Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. Image understanding illustrates one of the great gaps between research ...

Did you ever think that the next hot technology field would be the ability for a machine to “see” a picture and describe it in words? Google may have kicked off the latest wave of interest in ...

Microsoft today launched a new computer vision service it claims can generate image captions that are, in some cases, more accurate than human-written descriptions. The company calls the service, ...