Machine Vision Vs. Human Vision

A blog entry from Bill at  Vix and More wore asbestose gloves for dealing with an entry from The Big PIcture submitted by users about a cliff diving chart from 1987 that seems similar to 2007. Being a former grunt, I hit the mouse and banged the url looking for dodgy charts.

What I saw happens all the time, stare at two images long enough, and they seem similar in some fashion.

Fortunately, image analysis can be of assistance. Before we proceed,   the red chart represents now,  and the green charts are the best matches from 30 years,  and as you can see 1987 chart pattern is nowhere on the list of similar charts for 2007.  We might as well flip a coin, there are no significant causations  from the associations. There isn't any ominous leading indicator in the tea leaves, atleast for now.

I will part with this image, stare at it, it's not an animated gif, and yes, your eyes are playing tricks on you.