The applications for this in the advertising industry are exciting and a tad bit scary.<p>I can imagine a feedback system that takes the output of this algorithm and modifies the image slightly according to the error gradient to optimize the MEM-score of the brand&#x2F;item being advertised in the photo. Then it could feed the new image back in and repeat like the Deep-Dreaming algorithm.<p>side-note: I&#x27;m so happy that CSAIL is finally embracing deep learning. I&#x27;m an undergrad at mit and this semester was the first that deep learning was a major part of both the computer vision class and the nlp class.