MIT SCIENTISTS CREATE ALGORITHM THAT CAN MAKE PHOTOGRAPHS MORE MEMORABLE

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MIT alogrithm can predict photo memorability at "near-human" levels
Scientists have created an algorithm that can make your photographs more captivating and memorable.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have designed an algorithm that can predict memorability of a photograph at near-human levels, meaning it can tell which faces, scenes and objects in photographs are more likely remembered by humans.

Now if they could just create a algorithm to predict which photo will go viral they would be on to something.

General Photography Talk has a thread about this, including the algorithm's ratings of photos posted there.

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rick_reno wrote in post #17826421
Scientists have created an algorithm that can make your photographs more captivating and memorable.

I can see how they could rather easily predict the memorability of a photo, but the fact that they can predict whether it will be captivating or not is surprising to me.

I would be interested in seeing how they test for "captivatingness". . I just don't see how they can do that without subjective valuations entering into the data at some point, and in order to be scientific, all subjectiveness must be eliminated from the testing process.

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Tom, they claim only to rate memorability. There's more detail in the General Discussion thread.