How we teach computers to understand pictures | Fei Fei Li

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Published 2015-03-23

When a very young child looks at a picture, she can identify simple elements: "cat," "book," "chair." Now, computers are getting smart enough to do that too. What's next? In a thrilling talk, computer vision expert Fei-Fei Li describes the state of the art — including the database of 15 million photos her team built to "teach" a computer to understand pictures — and the key insights yet to come.

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All Comments (21)

@NPJGlobal 1 month ago

Who else came here after watching her 2024 TED Talk? Crazy how far we've come in just 9 years thanks to her and her team's research. I can't begin to imagine how much farther we'll have come when she gives her 2033 TED Talk ;)
@MeysamShojaeeNejad 2 years ago

She is a real legend! After 6 years, we can see how she truly revolutionized computer vision and even AI.
@leocyclops1202 8 years ago

Maybe one day a computer can watch this video and leave a comment.
@LuisManuelLealDias 9 years ago

I really appreciate the presenter showed the failed results. It's honest, it's true, it's entertaining and everybody understands the bigger challenges better. Kudus, I was fearing she would only show all the best picks as a coy marketeer would.
@whattoeatryan 4 years ago

She is one of the most influencial researcher in the area of AI. I would do anything for being her PhD student
@nathangek 9 years ago

This gave me goosebumps, I can't wait for what the future holds for us
@danielguo9422 9 years ago

It's incredible.My graduated project is the image processing. It is hard enough to identified the item from a image.But they have made it so far..
@superlightningpandas 8 years ago

I love this TED talk, I watched this like 10 times already. This sparks so much interest in me for computer science.
@yzhang2008 5 years ago

For those scientists or engineers whose mother tough is not English, while they are trying their best to improve in their profession, they have to spend time to polish their English. So far Feifei Li had done both pretty well. She's really brilliant!
@MrNouraiz 4 years ago

so she basically used maximum time for a ted talk (18 mins), incredible, pioneer in image classification and mentor of karpathy;
@isurujn 4 years ago

Man, this is amazing. Outstanding work! Props to her and everyone involved for their incredible efforts.
@nisun4231 4 years ago

This is a great contribution! We can see how much effort Li Fei Fei and her lab did!
@theloniousMac 8 years ago

The boy was terrified by the cake.
@WBlake01 9 years ago

That last part about one day, for the first time ever, having another intelligence share the world with us brought me to tears.
@armitra 7 years ago

She deserves a standing ovation
@MrRiotNL 9 years ago

Must be so much fun to work in this field at such an astounding level of complexity! Great talk, these talks really inspire people.
@Uhrenknecht 4 years ago

6:54 - "perhaps thousands of times more" - so we took a teenagers smartphone.. ^^
@alvincay100 9 years ago

3 years old, but 300 million years of evolution.
@umaribnali2138 5 years ago

Give her a standing ovation you peasants! 😂 Those of us working with AI, be it Machine Learning, Data Science, Computer Vision or NLP know that her work is unprecedented.
@andrewtingzhou6668 5 years ago

Nowadays I rarely watch the full video but ones like this put perspectives in my mind