Apple has published an official blog dedicated to image recognition , an unusual move for the company . The first post refers to work being done to enable the use of synthetic – as opposed to real – images to train image recognition neural networks . While synthetic images are cheaper to produce , they can lack realism , which hampers the image recognition system 's ability to learn . Apple has therefore developed a method of refining synthetic images to make them more lifelike .
Apple has published an official blog dedicated to machine learning, an unusual move for the company. The first post refers to work being done to enable the use of synthetic – as opposed to real – images to train image recognition neural nets. While synthetic images are cheaper to produce, they can lack realism, which hampers the image recognition software's ability to learn. Apple has therefore developed a way of refining synthetic images to make them more lifelike.