Building scalable systems to understand content - Facebook Engineering
Think about the last post you liked — it most likely involved a photo or video. But, until recently, online search has always been a text-driven technology, even when searching through images. Whether an image was discoverable was dependent on whether it was sufficiently tagged or had the right caption — until now. That’s changing [...]Read More...
2 Feb 2017 ... When these techniques are applied at Facebook, photos pass through a deep- learning engine that can segment the image and identify objects ...