Included in the SDK are text, audio and image recognizers, content databases and support for custom actions allowing developers to bend Firefly to their own personal needs.
The app has tricks to help you memorize words, including great matching images, a speech recognizer that scores you on how well you say the text out loud (you can skip this, but you'd be missing out) and simple games like matching phrases in English to the ones you're learning.
Recognition presupposes a subject of recognition (the recognizer) and an object (the recognized).
In 2011, after riots broke out in London, one super-recognizer, Gary Collins, a cop focussing on gangs, studied the grainy image of a young man who had hurled petrol bombs and set fire to cars.
Each time an image is entered into the system, a human tags it with metadata; if the super-recognizers are searching for a white male between the ages of forty and fifty who is known for nonresidential burglaries in East London, they can select for those criteria.
The present paper introduces a new data analyzer, a compression-based self-organizing recognizer, the PRDC-CSOR (Pattern Representation scheme using Data Compression – Compression based Self ORganizing Recognizer), with a preliminary application to image data.
I've seen a super recognizer recall an offender's date of birth, cell number, and cohorts just from a glimpse of a CCTV image".
In this paper, Sanchez's MicroARTMAP has been discussed as a pattern recognizer/classifier for the image processing problems.
An improved context free recognizer.
"Naomi is a pattern recognizer," Lewis says.
