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Last Week on My Mac: When Visual Look Up fails

For some images, Visual Look Up fails so completely that it’s not even offered. Could this be exploited as a way of blocking image recognition?

March 27, 2022 Macs, Technology

How Visual Look Up works in detail 2: Object recognition and Live Text

Visual Look Up also recognises flowers, landmarks and pets, as well as well-known paintings. Here’s how it does those, and how Live Text is different.

March 25, 2022 Macs, Technology

How Visual Look Up works in detail 1: paintings on Intel and M1 Macs

The first phase analyses, classifies and detects any objects within the image. When the user clicks on the white dot, this completes with a search for the best match.

March 23, 2022 Macs, Technology

Mints now opens up access to Visual Look Up

Not only does this version of Mints extract information from the log detailing what happens during Visual Look Up, but it includes it own browser window to look up with.

March 22, 2022 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Is Look Up destined for CSAM?

Remember Apple’s failed attempt to detect CSAM in images? Would that have been similar to the way that Visual Look Up works? Is this the thin end of the wedge?

March 20, 2022 Macs, Technology

How good is Monterey’s Visual Look Up?

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A promising start for a new feature which could, with a little improvement, become a uniquely powerful tool.

March 16, 2022 Macs, Painting, Technology
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