Hi Tobias,
Op 20-3-2012 13:34, Tobias Oelgarte schreef:
Hello,
It sounds nice in theory. But knowing the current limitations of
object recognition and our category/tagging system on Commons, I
don't see how it could really help to improve the project. For
example: We don't tag every object in the background since it is
much better for the user to find images inside the categories that
have this object as the main motive. In case of something like a
ball it would need to correctly distinguish between a football, a
globe, marble, melon, etc. If it guesses wrong and would add the
tag it would accidentally increase the efforts for our
maintainers.
Maybe you want to elaborate in more detail what possible use cases
you have in mind, where it would be a real help for our
contributers. I like the idea, but at the same time I see a lot of
difficulties to transform it in a realistic improvement for the
project.
Did you read
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Multichill/Using_OpenCV_to_categorize_files
? It contains some possible use cases.
Maarten