Maarten Dammers wrote:
Some time ago I played around with computer vision to
get images
categorized on Commons. I documented this at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Multichill/Using_OpenCV_to_categori…
files
. I don't think I'm going to spend time on it soon, but the results were
quite promising, so maybe someone else feels like working on this? Would
probably be a pretty nice student project or just fun to do.
Neat! :-)
I've had some thoughts about the uses of this. Particularly doing fuzzy
image matching to spot duplicates, rather than relying on the primitive hash
of the contents of the file. It might also be possible to do other fun
searches, like looking for watermarks or poorly rotated photos (without the
EXIF data, I guess) or making/breaking CAPTCHAs or...
I wonder if facial recognition will soon need to have some kind of opt-out.
MZMcBride