Researchers taught AI how to judge a video game by its cover

Have you ever seen the promo art or box cover for a video game and thought "what the hell is this even about?" A pair of researchers have combined cutting-edge image recognition and natural language processing to create an AI system for video game genre classification. Yuhang Jiang and Lukun Zheng, in their recently published pre-print research paper "Deep learning for video game genre classification," describe the creation of a large training database and its use in developing a novel classification system. We created a large dataset of 50,000 video games including game cover images, description text, title text, and genre information. This dataset can be used for a variety of studies such as text recognition from images, automatic topic mining, and so on and will be made available to the public in the future.