On Jun 18, 2014 2:28 PM, "Brian Wolff" <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 6/18/14, Kristian Kankainen <krist...@eki.ee> wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I think, if one is clever enough, some categorization could be automated > > allready. > > > > Searching for pictures based on meta-data is called "Concept Based Image > > Retrieval", searching based on the machine vision recognized content of > > the image is called "Content Based Image Retrieval". > > > > What I understood of Lars' request, is an automated way of finding the > > "superfluous" concepts or meta-data for pictures based on their content. > > Of course recognizing an images content is very hard (and subjective), > > but I think it would be possible for many of these "superfluous" > > categories, such as "winter landscape", "summer beach" and perhaps also > > "red flowers" and "bicycle". > > > > There exist today many open source "Content Based Image Retrieval" > > systems, that I understand basically works in the way that you give them > > a picture, and they find you the "matching" pictures accompanied with a > > score. Now suppose we show a picture with known content (pictures from > > Commons with good meta-data), then we could to a degree of trust find > > pictures with overlapping categories. > > I am not sure whether this kind of automated reverse meta-data labelling > > should be done for only one category per time, or if some kind of > > "category bundles" work better. Probably adjectives and items should be > > compounded (eg "red flowers"). > > > > Relevant articles and links from Wikipedia: > > # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_retrieval > > # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-based_image_retrieval > > # > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CBIR_engines#CBIR_research_projects.2Fdemos.2Fopen_source_projects > > > > Best wishes > > Kristian Kankainen > > > > 18.06.2014 09:14, Pine W kirjutas: > >> Machine vision is definitely getting better with time. We have > >> computer-driven airplanes, computer-driven cars, and computer-driven > >> spacecraft. The computers need us less and less as hardware and software > >> improve. I think it may be less than a decade before machine vision is > >> good > >> enough to categorize most objects in photographs. > >> > >> Pine > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikitech-l mailing list > >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > Interesting. Some demo links that I found: > > * http://demo-itec.uni-klu.ac.at/liredemo/
Lire has been on my list of things to look at for a while now. Its nice because it could integrate reasonably easily into cirrus because it is built on lucene. I can't promise anything quick but I'll look into the others as well. Nik _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
