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_categoriz... 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