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  • Google needs your help building better video analysis algorithms

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    Devindra Hardawar
    Devindra Hardawar
    02.16.2017

    You probably haven't heard of YouTube-8M, but it's a big deal for anyone working in the field of machine learning. In short, it's a large database of labeled video content that programmers can use to test out their algorithms. Today, Google announced that YouTube-8M is getting a major update, with even more labels across more its videos, as well as audio elements. And the company is also aiming to make the dataset even better with a Kaggle competition, which will offer big bucks from a $100,000 prize pool to teams who build the best algorithms for tagging around 700,000 new videos (using the 8M dataset for training).