[Commons-l] Automated identification of images on commons

[Gnangarra]

Commons works to have all plant photos identified by species and these link
to WP articles they would fnid commons as a better fit by being the database
for their software...From our POV a focus on copyright issues would be a
more valuable tool

2011/9/27 とある白い猫 <to.aru.shiroi.neko at gmail.com>

>   Certainly it is their first attempt in plant identification. They are
> dealing with very few species of plant as well. Such phone apps could
> eventually be very useful as for example you point your phone at... anything
> and it links to the wikipedia article - in the language setting of your
> phone! Consider this labs progress in the next few decades... To them we are
> just another image repository but unlike other image repositories we are
> seeking to tag images in less specialized manner. For instance an image
> repository for birds would generally avoid tagging birds by color but
> instead by species or some other scientific categorization, commons on the
> other hand wouldn't mind such categorization.


>   As I said before, people shouldn't expect perfect species identification
> overnight but perhaps this could be the result of research for the next few
> decades. They currently are considering dropping commons because they do not
> see any use for commons, we could show them potential fields of research
> using commons by basically telling them about our problems. For instance
> dealing with images we frequently delete (over copyright, trolling and etc)
> could easily be a task for them.
>
>   -- とある白い猫  (To Aru Shiroi Neko)
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 20:39, Paul Houle <paul at ontology2.com> wrote:
>
>>   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.
>>
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