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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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