This jumble of visual data overloads facial-recognition algorithms.
Art just is what it is: a Babel of visual data and disparate things trailing price tags and promises, dogmas and ego, taking up space and gathering dust.
Like much of Mr. Rauschenberg's work, this series uses odd and intriguing juxtapositions of visual data to suggest rebus-like sequences, although the meaning, if any, remains elusive.
The cost of storing images is dropping, and new software algorithms for mining, matching and scrutinizing the flood of visual data are progressing swiftly.
September 9th 1939: The Economist regularly published a page of country statistical analyses, like this one of Egypt -- an early form of visual "data journalism".
"That could be an interesting low-level vision feature" – learning how to parse individual objects out of the stream of visual data, for instance – "or a high-level policy feature", such as the knowledge that the small white dot must remain on the correct side of your paddle.
As it was the greatest recorder of visual data in history, it introduced the world's art to enormous audiences that had never seen it before and documented the skeletons and porcelains and armor and jewelry and artifacts of every sort that museums eagerly displayed for the edification of the curious.
And in fact, you will probably need little encouragement to do so, given the wealth of visual data on tap, which includes work by some of the best young American artists in the business; it is augmented by a Web site that is an integral part of the show: www.icp.org/exhibitions/onlyskindeep.
The director of the laboratory, the astrophysicist Matthew Schneps, notes that scientists in his line of work must make sense of enormous quantities of visual data and accurately detect patterns that signal the presence of entities like black holes.
Second, we have conducted detailed objective evaluation and confirmed the effectiveness of visual data in VC.
The analytics of visual data has been a research subject for more than a decade.
