Keypoint

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Part of a valley where the lower and flatter portion of the primary valley floor suddenly becomes steeper, used in computing a keyline for the efficient planning of water usage.
  2. 2
    An important point in an image, used in computer vision systems when detecting objects etc.

    "We use a deep convolutional neural network within an expectation maximization framework to take advantage of weakly labeled data like image level annotations or keypoint annotations."

  3. 3
    An identifier for a point in time, especially within a digital recording; a timestamp.

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"We use a deep convolutional neural network within an expectation maximization framework to take advantage of weakly labeled data like image level annotations or keypoint annotations."

Etymology

From key + point.

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computer vision

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