Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Brian: >This is a variation of a classic computer science problem. It's hard, and >there's no >software outside international government spy agencies that can do it. Yes and no. Amazon has some pretty nifty web services. I think this one is especially intriguing: http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/103-7996621-9892664?node=15879911 Artificial artificial intelligence. Allows programs to depend on human evaluation at a small cost. Want to know if a dog is in a picture? You can spend thousands or millions of dollars developing an elaborate picture analyzer. Or you can ask a 5-year old. That's the premise behind this. I could easily see a program that just churns through all the combinations and asks people if any given two photos are the same or similar. I suspect you'd get a pretty good hit rate. I have no experience using Amazon's service. I just think it's a really interesting twist on the old mechanical Turk. -- Eric http://canid.com/