On 9/26/2011 1:32 PM, Andre Engels wrote:
Every small category is a part of a big category. A system such as
this will not be able to specify plant species, but it might well be
able to find pictures of plants. If it then gives a list of plant
pictures that are not in some plant category, animal pictures that are
not in animal category, buildings that are not in a regional building
category, maps that are not in a map of category, paintings that are
not in a painter category, famous people that are not in a people
category etcetera, it could deliver those to volunteers to further
classify.
The ImageCLEF people are getting such great results because
they're working in a specific and limited domain
http://www.imageclef.org/2011/Plants
The goal is to identify plants by looking at their leaves. An
obvious application is to build this into a mobile device -- you could
snap a picture of a leaf on a plant or remove a leaf and photograph it
against a good surface and it tells you what sort of plant you're
looking at. This would be a great tool for any gardener's toolbox,
anywhere on earth.
I'm looking forward to seeing people solve more problems like this.