[Artbeyondsightmuseums] {Disarmed} Facebook description generation, photography

[Lisa Yayla]

Facebook Helps Blind People “See” Photos With AI

Facebook rolled out a new accessibility feature to help the blind or 
visually impaired people “see” photos on their news feed....

Introducing /automatic alternative text/, it enables Facebook’s AI to 
generate description for photos to be read aloud.

“This is possible because of Facebook’s object recognition technology, 
which is based on a neural network that has billions of parameters and 
is trained with millions of examples,” said Facebook in a blog post 
<http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2016/04/using-artificial-intelligence-to-help-blind-people-see-facebook/>.

According to BBC <http://www.bbc.com/news/disability-35881779>, 
Facebook’s AI can now recognize over 80 objects and activities.

http://www.thebitbag.com/facebook-helps-blind-see-photos/145615

Facebook AI technology describes photos to blind users

http://www.biometricupdate.com/201604/facebook-ai-technology-describes-photos-to-blind-users

How Facebook Is Helping Blind People 'See' Photos

http://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2016/04/07/facebook-automatic-alternative-text/#13607f8d4a34

Facebook Adds New Feature Using Artificial Intelligence To Allow 
Visually Impaired Users 'See' Photos

http://www.parentherald.com/articles/35216/20160406/facebook-uses-artificial-intelligence-blind-users-see-photos.htm

Facebook helps blind users 'see' photos
The feature provides users with a text description of an image using a 
software which recognises 100 objects, activities and food.

http://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/tech-news/facebook-introduces-new-feature-helping-visually-impaired-users-see-photos-11364050163274

Broken Screen: Living With Blindness

She began the project by visiting Visions 
<http://www.visionsvcb.org/visions/> in New York, a center that offers 
courses to visually impaired people. She was led to a photography class 
taught by a sighted person.

http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/broken-screen-living-blindness/story?id=38144138

Seeing with Photography

http://www.seeingwithphotography.com/