Machine Learning for Kids

9 Finding an Object in a Picture

n earlier chapters, you learned that you can train an ML system so that if you give it a picture, it can recognize the object in that picture. That’s useful when the whole picture is of something that you’re interested in, as it was when you made the Rock, Paper, Scissors game in Chapter 4. For that game, your hand filled the photo. But sometimes we want the computer to learn to find something that’s only a small part of a much bigger picture. In this chapter, you’ll see how to break up a complex job into ...