Scene Understanding and Labeling Pixels

A problem I looked at for a startup a few years ago.  Ultimately it was chosen to address it by using crowdsourcing.  Here a Vimeo interview with Stephen Gould discusses image understanding and pixel labeling, the topic of   " ... Scene Understanding by Labeling Pixels".  What do you see? How about now? And now? Because that's what your computer sees. Can we teach it to understand that these arbitrary pixels are a tree, a car, a chair? Then can we teach it to put it all together and describe an entire scene ... Join us as we talk with Stephen Gould about how computer vision goes from individual pixels to full scenes, and then back again, in Scene Understanding by Labeling Pixels. ... "