<<In a message dated 3/31/2009 9:58:16 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, dgerard@gmail.com writes:
(In image search, Google and all other search engines still suck. Here's to tagging coming to Commons.)>> Somewhere in my hazy memory I remember two projects I'd read about. There was a guy or a bunch of guys maybe who were trying to teach a computer how to recognize "large expanses of flesh" so it could find nude pictures I suppose.
Then there was a human-tagging project where people ranked up points as they tagged images with whatever. I'm not clear how it worked, and I haven't heard of it for some years.
There are some tasks that humans will always be better at than machines. That's probably why Google's image search sucks. But if I search for "Brad Pitt Nude" I still get several decent hits anyway.
Will Johnson
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