Machine Learning: Can a Computer Judge a Book By Its Cover?

And could software design book covers that could be judged--correctly--by humans? Research in Japan says maybe. 'Designed To Be Judged' At At MIT Technology Review, an article from looks at work being done by Brian Kenji Iwana and Seiichi Uchida at Kyushu University in Japan. According to the report, they've trained a deep neural network to study book covers--to see if the network can identify genre. "Book covers are designed to give readers an idea of the content," after all, the report points out. "Good book covers are designed to be judged.