Announcing Open Images V4, the largest existing dataset with object location annotations, along with the Open Images Challenge, a new object detection challenge to be held at the 2018 European Conference on Computer Vision (#ECCV2018).

Learn more at:
https://research.googleblog.com/2018/04/announcing-open-images-v4-and-eccv-2018.html

#ff #FollowFriday: More Information Retrieval researchers joined the fediverse lately:

@rosswilkinson (structured search,)
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@TomKenter (word embeddings)
@alansaid (recommender sys)
@fthopf (lifelogging)
@joemon (social media analytics, multimodal interaction)
@[email protected] (IR and knowledge graphs)
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