Segmentation.Network

»Segmentation.Network« plays back over 600,000 segmentations manually created by crowd workers for Microsoft’s COCO image recognition data set. This data set is based on photos from Flickr and is used in machine learning for training and testing.

The piece makes visible the hidden manual labor that goes into building neural networks and artificial intelligence. Furthermore, »Segmentation.Network« addresses machine vision as an act of conscious selection: what can and should be seen by machines and what will remain unrecognized or deemed irrelevant.

Hence, neural networks and artificial intelligence in general can be considered a collective and rather introspective endeavor and achievement.

The documentation of the artwork ist available online.