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Image Classification of Battle Tanks

A potentially apocryphal story in which an image classifier was produced to differentiate types of battle tanks, but the resulting model keyed in on environmental attributes rather than tank attributes

Date it happened
2011-09-20
Organisation involved
United States Government
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